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Sentences starting with iron

Iron is essentially the same everywhere and always; but the sulphate of iron is never the same as the carbonate of iron. [6]
Iron ore at the least; so divided, as by their notes you may see in what places I found them. [4]
Iron carted across the American continent at luxurious railway rates would be valuable enough to be coined when it arrived. [5]
Iron pyrites! [6]

Sentences ending with iron

I will tell you,--I said.---When a given symbol which represents a thought has lain for a certain length of time in the mind, it undergoes a change like that which rest in a certain position gives to iron. [6]
We need not write their names on these walls, after the fashion of those civic dignitaries who immortalize themselves on tablets of marble and gates of iron. [3]
I asked him what became of the vest and the buttons, and the bar of iron. [4]
These all burn up sooner or later, provided they are not housed in brick or stone and iron. [6]
The water turned to ice on their clothes, and made them many times like coats of iron. [3]
What has started this sudden excitement about iron? [5]
Capital has discovered that literature is a product out of which money can be made, in the same way that it can be made in cotton, wheat, or iron. [4]
If not, they still had weapons of a kind- Radisson a knife, and Gering the bar of iron. [11]
Then he swung round and moved his foot along the wall--it touched iron. [11]
One day the old man got an inspiration when he was scratching around in the dirt for an odd-sized iron. [9]

Short sentences using iron

His nerves seemed of iron. [11]
He's a man of iron. [10]

Sentences containing iron two or more times

The Boyne Iron Works was to become the Boyne Iron Works, Ltd., owner of various subsidiary companies, some of which were as yet blissfully ignorant of their fate. [9]
Now her hand was upon the bellows, and the low, white fire seethed hungrily up, and set its teeth upon the iron she held; now it turned the iron about upon the anvil, and the sparks showered about her very softly and strangely. [11]
Why does iron rust, while gold remains untarnished, and gold amalgamate, while iron refuses the alliance of mercury? [3]
It had a rude brass-wire cover to it, and a little coarse iron chain suspended from the bowl, with an iron splinter attached to loosen up the tobacco and pick your teeth with. [5]
The large empire of the Pacific coast requires a world of iron machinery, and could manufacture it economically on the spot if the imposts on foreign iron were removed. [5]
That he would not only be president of the Boyne Iron Works, but of a Boyne Iron Works that has exceeded Mr. Durrett's wildest dreams. [9]
The Cranberry iron is in great esteem, as it has the peculiar quality of the Swedish iron. [4]
She saw the iron raised, and looked for M'sieu' to knock the tailor down; but, instead, she beheld the tailor go back and put the iron on the fire again. [11]
The subject was investments, at first those of coal and iron in my own state, for Mr. Watling, it appeared, was counsel for the Boyne Iron Works. [9]
He has stepped from the iron routine of daily effort into a sudden freedom, and his faculties have failed him, the iron of his will has vanished. [11]

More example sentences with the word iron in them

By St. Patrick, you've made yourself captain with the good-will of all, and your iron hand has held the thing together. [11]
You are inside, your hands are outside; so there you are; nothing but iron between. [5]
How often have you and I stood here at the anvil, the fire heating the iron, and our hammers falling constantly! [11]
He rubbed his wrist, which had been squeezed by Pentaur's iron fingers, and said in a tone which betrayed all the bitterness of his feelings: "Thy hand is hard, Priest, and thy words hit like the strokes of a hammer. [10]
Sometimes a man would gather up all the iron fragments and unbursted shells in his neighborhood, and pile them into a kind of monument in his front yard--a ton of it, sometimes. [5]
He was not working alone here as he did at Richtberg; for Ulrich heard more than one hammer striking iron in the workshop. [10]
His iron will won the victory; by the time it was growing dusk the despatch was written. [10]
The strong man, whose powers were doubled by his rage, struggled furiously to escape, but Joshua and his companion held him in an iron grasp. [10]
There are people who would have sat in it, if the seat had been set with iron spikes. [4]
Iron, steel, brass, white-metal, and so on. [5]
The charm by which she ensnares hearts is indescribable, and the iron power of her intellect! [10]
The pleading glance which Els had cast at her must have pierced her soft heart, for her bosom suddenly heaved violently and, struggling to repress her sobs, she gasped, "I know you mean kindly, but I am not made of stone or iron either. [10]
He had heard what Young Aleck had just muttered; but to the man of the cold fingers he said: "You keep good whisky in spite of the law and the iron glove, Old Aleck. [11]
A spacious yard well above the pavement surrounds it, sustained by a wall of dressed stones, capped by an iron fence. [9]
Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
What the gift was to announce she read on the paper accompanying it, which contained the following simple lines: "The iron rude, when shaped by fire and blows, Delights our eyes as a most beauteous rose. [10]
In the eyes was the darkness of the well of despair; but at his lips was iron resolution. [11]
Damase Evanturel's mind was stirred concerning the loss of the iron cross; the threat made by Filion Lacasse and his companions troubled him. [11]
The iron bolt was still in the wound--some say it projected out behind the shoulder. [5]
He said there was only one creature more fickle than a wooden ship's compass, and that was the compass of an iron ship. [5]
And then he was going to build it of iron ore! [5]
His white hair was chiselled on his broad brow, his face was a solemn pathos petrified, his lips were curled with an iron contempt, an incalculable anger. [11]
A mighty fire was blazing on the hearth and roaring up the wide chimney with a cheerful sound, which a large iron cauldron, bubbling and simmering in the heat, lent its pleasant aid to swell. [12]
In one corner was an ivy-covered well, with an antique iron gate, and the bucket, hanging on a hook inside the fern-grown hood, was an old wine-keg-- appropriate emblem for a smuggler's house. [11]
Another said there was a vast fortune waiting for the genius who should invent a compass that would not be affected by the local influences of an iron ship. [5]
Perhaps you sometimes wander in through the iron gates of the Copp's Hill burial-ground. [6]
He stole the vessels because they were valuable, and the iron cross because he was an infidel! [11]
It was not very large; it was iron bound and had been very strong before the slow years had injured it. [5]
We melted it up and made a solid brick of it by pouring it into an iron brick-mould. [5]
I got an ugly cut from the carving-knife in an affair with a goose of iron constitution in which I came off second best. [6]
He worked for two whole hours before he succeeded in quietly forcing open the iron door in the wall; but it was done at last. [11]
He could see two little boats, but they lay in a narrow walled canal and this was closed by an iron railing. [10]
Her assistant hastily turned with a fork the little cakes, browning rapidly in the hollows of the iron, and when baked, laid them neatly on small plates. [10]
I saw Louis Trudel raise an iron against Monsieur that day in the shop. [11]
We tried to trade him off at private vendue next, offering him at a sacrifice for second-hand tombstones, old iron, temperance tracts--any kind of property. [5]
For himself, he took his station on a rugged mat before the furnace-door, and resting his chin upon his hands, watched the flame as it shone through the iron chinks, and the white ashes as they fell into their bright hot grave below. [12]
The stone lies too far from the water to enable anybody to land on it now, and it is protected from vandalism by an iron grating. [4]
I often used to wonder, as I looked through the iron railing at nightfall, what might go on there and whether historic shades might not flit about in the ghostly walks. [4]
Then came reference to the well known fact that an experienced mariner can look at the compass of a new iron vessel, thousands of mile from her birthplace, and tell which way her head was pointing when she was in process of building. [5]
Tom he went to the soap-kettle and searched around, and fetched back the iron thing they lift the lid with; so he took it and prized out one of the staples. [5]
He sometimes went to the city to buy iron or coals, but usually avoided any intercourse with the citizens, who shrugged their shoulders or pointed to their foreheads, when they spoke of him. [10]
It was horrible to see the iron helmets fly into fragments under his dreadful ax. [5]
They were astonished to see Dyck there, and more astonished to receive-- first one and then another--his iron in their bowels. [11]
The driver pointed to one of these ancient fortresses, and said, (I translate): "Do you see that great iron hook that projects from the wall just under the highest window in the ruined tower? [5]
Still, it seems to me that a knight who wishes to keep iron hot might attain his object better in another way. [10]
Matters had come to a sharp quarrel betwixt the son and the parents, and I knew my cousin well, and his iron will which was a by-word with us. [10]
See the iron tire brought hot from the furnace and laid around the smoking circumference. [6]
At any other time the swing of the cars would have lulled him to sleep, and the rattle and clank of wheels and rails, the roar of the whirling iron would have only been cheerful reminders of swift and safe travel. [5]
Then Mrs. Falchion thrust a red-hot iron into the powder, and an explosion ensued. [11]
The soldiers, who threw sidelong glances at Pierre, got the fire to burn and placed an iron pot on it into which they broke some dried bread and put a little dripping. [2]
These rested in three-branched iron chandeliers, every portion of which, from the slender central shaft to the intricately-carved and twisted ornaments, had been carefully wrought by Aquanus with his own hand. [10]
He has made this show to suit himself, he has pushed out several iron piers into the sea, and erected, of course, a skating rink on the end of one of them. [4]
When all of this should have been accomplished, there would be scarcely a process in the steel industry, from the smelting of the ore to the completion of a bridge, which the Boyne Iron Works could not undertake. [9]
How beautiful is this flower of wood and iron, which we were ready to pass by without wasting a look upon it! [6]
And here, in this desecrated resting-place of the village dead, where the shattered gravestones were mingled with barbed wire, death-dealing fragments of iron, and rusting stick-bombs that had failed to explode, was a wooden cross, on which was rudely written the name of Hans Siebert. [9]
But was there then such a power as the Destiny of the ancients--inexorable, iron Fate? [10]
Their way brought them down Brampton Street, past a house with great iron dogs on the lawn, so imposing and cityfied that he hung back and asked who lived there. [9]
He said: "Examine them at your leisure while I get mother to touch up the kite with her iron if it isn't dry enough yet. [5]
My mother led the way into the small enclosure, which was surrounded by an iron railing, and prayed or thought silently of the beloved dead who rested there. [10]
The second is the vast system of iron muscles which, as it were, move the limbs of the mighty organism one upon another. [6]
Better still, consider the telephone: take away from it the metallic disk, and the magnetized iron, and the connecting wire, and then let the mind run abroad on the telephone. [4]
Women also had the right to enter the hospital to be cured of the wounds inflicted by the scourge or the iron of the executioner. [10]
No doubt if the Plantagenets of this day were required to dress in a suit of chain-armor and wear iron pots on their heads, they would be as ridiculous as most tragedy actors on the stage. [4]
A member of the Ottawa government, who was on his way to the Governor-General's ball at Halifax, informed us that this country is rich in minerals, in iron especially, and he pointed out spots where gold had been washed out. [4]
The look of the old man's face was ominous, and he was known to have an iron will. [11]
At this confession the old man broke out violently, he flung his file, and the iron bolt at which he was working, on to his work-table, exclaiming: "And this is the way you executed your commission. [10]
We swung by the lodge, the keeper holding open the iron gate as we passed, and into the wide driveway, hewn, as it were, out of the virgin forest. [9]
Then I slung the knapsack in front of me, so that I could force it through the window first, and tying my handkerchief round the iron bars, I screwed it up with my stick. [11]
Virginia leaned against the iron railing of the steps, watching the scene, and waiting for Ned to return from Mr. Brinsmade's. [9]
He said that the iron hand which was made for him afterward, and which he wore for more than half a century, was nearly as clever a member as the fleshy one had been. [5]
The sound of the iron hammer on the malleable metal was like muffled silver, and the sparks flew out like jocund fireflies. [11]
I shall expect the iron day after to-morrow. [10]
She disappeared with the iron cross, and flying across the street, thrust it inside the post-office, then ran to the house of the Notary. [11]
Isabella had shot the heavy iron bolt into its place. [10]
The poles of the great magnet that draws in all the iron tracks through the grooves of all the mountains must be near at hand, for here are crossings, and sudden stops, and screams of alarmed engines heard all around. [6]
As Valmond entered the garden, Madame Chalice was leaning over the lower half of the entrance door, which opened latitudinally, and was hung on large iron hinges of quaint design, made by some seventeenth- century forgeron. [11]
McCann poked into the forward lockers where we kept the stores,--dropping the iron lid within an inch of his toe,--and the clothing-lockers and the sail-lockers. [9]
The fire of the forge, by whose means pieces of worthless iron were transformed into swords and ploughshares, should use its influence upon her also. [10]
Then she shut the door, turned to the ironing-board, and took up the iron, as the figure of a man darkened the doorway. [11]
I go to the Chateau de St. Gre--great iron gates, long avenue of poplar,--big house all 'round a court, and Monsieur le Marquis is at Versailles. [9]
The toe of the Arab leading the horse touched his head, then a hoof was on him--between the shoulders, pressing-pressing down, the iron crushing into the flesh--down--down--down, till his eyes seemed to fill with blood. [11]
It was said that the royal iron foundry was in flames. [10]
The first gun that spat its iron insult at Fort Sumter, smote every loyal American full in the face. [6]
I saw them; terrible--horrible--sheathed in iron from top to toe. [10]
He is a tall, strongly built man of about sixty, with iron grey hair and beard. [9]
He had often taken the pledge to drink no more, and was a good sample of what that sort of unwisdom can do for a man--for a man with anything short of an iron will. [5]
One of the Tabernacle--a vast iron hood or dome erected over rows of benches that will seat two or three thousand people--represents the building when it is packed with an audience intent upon the preacher. [4]
Then he again swung the iron, to crush the head of his hated foe. [10]
Over the fire swings an iron crane, with a row of pot-hooks of all lengths hanging from it. [4]
There is almost superhuman firmness here, immovable purpose, iron steadfastness of will. [5]
You see, the sun was beating down and warming up the iron more and more all the time. [5]
Such a shot, such a splendid physique, such iron endurance! [4]
The pants were stuffed into the tops of high boots, the heels whereof were armed with great Spanish spurs, whose little iron clogs and chains jingled with every step. [5]
It takes a strong cage to keep in a tiger or a grizzly bear, but what iron bars, what barbed wires, can keep out the smooth and subtle enemy that finds out the cage where beauty is imprisoned? [6]
But soon his strength again deserted him, the sweat poured from his brow, his wound began to throb and beat, and he felt as though his skull was compressed by an iron circle. [10]
The iron and stone quality that she had early suspected in him had actually cropped out as an impregnable barrier. [13]
They're iron and steel, the Gipsy laws. [11]
The prisoner was standing at the window, pressing her brow against the iron bars and listening to the lute played by her lover, which sounded, amid the turmoil of the other prisoners, like a bell above the roar of thunder and the storm. [10]
Also an Essay, spoken at the great final exhibition, held in the large hall up-stairs, which hangs oddly enough from the roof, suspended by iron rods. [6]
I would have sooner, I believe, wrought by the side of any rascally redemptioner in the iron mines of the Patapsco than have gone to Eton. [9]

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