"One iron" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... apart, and click!—one iron was about a wrist. Then the other arm was seized, dragged downward, and click! the convict's wrists were secured behind his back, just as Mrs Braydon and her two daughters came hurrying out; and seeing what had taken ...
— First in the Field - A Story of New South Wales • George Manville Fenn
... lumberers' home on the Ottawa; the main trunk line of railway, which will extend from the western point of the colony to Halifax, passes through it; a local line, traversing some of the richest land in Canada, is now in progress to Lake Simcoe and Lake Huron; one iron horse already affords it communication with Waterloo—nearly opposite Buffalo—whence produce descends by the Erie Canal and the Hudson to New York: besides all which advantages, it enjoys at present the privilege of being one of the seats of government ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray
... Frau Forster, a daughter of Heyne's, somewhat democratic, walking out of the Gate of Mentz with her Husband, finds French Soldiers playing at bowls with cannon-balls there. Forster trips cheerfully over one iron bomb, with "Live the Republic!" A black-bearded National Guard answers: "Elle vivra bien sans vous, It will probably live independently of you!" (Johann Georg Forster's Briefwechsel (Leipzig, ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... men by these presents, Death, the tamer, By mortgage has secured the corpse of Demar; Nor can four hundred thousand sterling pound Redeem him from his prison underground. His heirs might well, of all his wealth possesst Bestow, to bury him, one iron chest. Plutus, the god of wealth, will joy to know His faithful steward in the shades below. He walk'd the streets, and wore a threadbare cloak; He din'd and supp'd at charge of other folk: And by his looks, had he held out his palms, He might be thought an object fit for alms. So, to the poor ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift
... learned nothing but what has been already mentioned, and that its chief had one iron mine. It was rendered subject ...
— An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton |
