steel (n.)
- adamant
- aureate
- ax
- blade
- bone
- brace
- brass
- brick
- bronze
- buttress
- cement
- concrete
- copper
- cutlery
- cutter
- dagger
- diamond
- dirk
- equity
- firm
- flint
- gilt
- gold
- golden
- granite
- horse
- iron
- knife
- lead
- lion
- marble
- nerve
- nickel
- oak
- ox
- pewter
- point
- prop
- quicksilver
- rails
- rally
- ready
- rock
- shares
- sharpener
- silver
- split
- stiletto
- stock
- stocks
- stone
- support
- sword
- temper
- tin
- whittle
steel (v.)
- anneal
- ax
- blade
- bone
- brace
- brazen
- brick
- bronze
- brutalize
- buttress
- calcify
- callous
- cement
- concrete
- confirm
- copper
- firm
- fortify
- fossilize
- gird
- harden
- horse
- indurate
- insulate
- inure
- invigorate
- iron
- knife
- lapidify
- lead
- lion
- marble
- nerve
- nickel
- oak
- ossify
- ox
- petrify
- point
- prepare
- prop
- protect
- rally
- ready
- refresh
- reinforce
- reinvigorate
- restrengthen
- rock
- silver
- split
- stiffen
- stock
- stone
- strengthen
- support
- sustain
- temper
- tin
- toughen
- undergird
- vitrify
- whittle
Arm th' obdur'd breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down.
And the stern joy which warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.
My heart
Is true as steel.
O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,
Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay!
Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!
Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee: I 'll call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Let me not burst in ignorance, but tell
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws
To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous, and we fools of nature
So horridly to shake our disposition
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
'T is chastity, my brother, chastity:
She that has that is clad in complete steel.
I'm armed with more than complete steel,—
The justice of my quarrel.
My man's as true as steel.
Footnotes
Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well:
Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further.
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,
And he but naked, though locked up in steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.
