Irons

Examples

• I was put in irons, brought to trial again, and sent for life. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And but for his illness he would have been put in irons, for he was regarded as a determined prison-breaker, and I know not what else. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I remember Mr. Cheshire, with his irons, trying to make people straight when the Almighty had made them crooked. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Hall had thick steel plates dovetailed together; and angle irons tenoned at the corners. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Gladiators who objected to fight for any reason were driven on by whips and hot irons. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Bartholomew Irons--to the disappointment of the irregular prelate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Heat the irons; with my own hands I shall burn the eyes from his head that he may not pollute my person with his vile gaze. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The current sent through our electric stoves and irons should be strong enough to heat the coils, but not strong enough to melt them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestly admire. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I've got a gang of boys, sir, said the long man, resuming his attack on the fire-irons, and I jest tells 'em--'Boys,' says I,--'_run_ now! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Table knives, plane irons and chisels of a very superior kind are made of shear steel, while common steel is wrought up into ordinary cutlery. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On a permanently constructed pocket table, right-angled plugs of the rubber cushion are screwed to the corner pocket irons and straight sections are screwed to the side pocket irons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There was but a yard between the two mighty ships as the first grappling irons were hurled. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Electric irons are particularly valuable in summer, because they eliminate the necessity for a strong fire, and spare the housewife intense heat. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• We have already mentioned how an electrical engineer, shortly after placing irons in the homes of his customers, followed them with a number of small stoves and ovens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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