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"Short iron" Quotes from Famous Books

... this sign, and brought from the corner of the hall a wooden seat of rough, clumsy form, to whose high back of unpolished dirty wood two short iron chains were attached. ...

— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach

... standard-bearer. The spearmen (hastati) formed the first line in fifteen companies, with small intervals between them: a company had twenty light-armed soldiers, the rest wearing shields; those were called light who carried only a spear and short iron javelins. This, which constituted the van in the field of battle, contained the youth in early bloom advancing towards the age of service. Next followed men of more robust age, in the same number of companies, who were called principes, all wearing shields, and distinguished by the ...

— The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 • Titus Livius

... sent the mortar spraying; another blow and another loosened a hole in which the black inserted a short iron and ...

— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley

... the track to the motor-car. I had gained a little time. But how could I keep my promise. And the next moment the problem became more difficult. The track boss came up with a short iron bar that his men had found in the weeds along ...

— The Sleuth of St. James's Square • Melville Davisson Post

... Mrs. Condiment, lifting up the rug and revealing a large drop, some four feet square, that was kept up in its place by a short iron bolt. ...

— Hidden Hand • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth