She's going to be a steel fist in a velvet glove.

"There was a sense of a steel fist in a velvet glove."

And I am clear: racism must be met with a steel fist.

This was going to be a fight of wet steel, fists and rifle butts.

More than three quarters of the knights were there, massed together like a great steel fist.

It caught him as he fell, forcing its steel fist back to a semblance of human flesh.

What felt like a steel fist slammed into the small of his back.

This is the archetypal steel fist in a velvet glove.

Brown's heart was a steel fist, and his breathing came in painful gasps that a doctor might have taken for something they were not.

Western Europe and America still remembered the steel fist which they'd seen but never felt.