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Iron age   /ˈaɪərn eɪdʒ/   Listen
Iron age

noun
1.
(archeology) the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons.
2.
(classical mythology) the last and worst age of the world.






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"Iron age" Quotes from Famous Books



... The loue betwixt vs, loue spirituall: But that which thou affectedst was so true, As that thereby thee perfectly I knew; And now that spirit, which thou so lou'dst, still mine, Shall offer this a Sacrifice to thine, And reare this Trophe, which for thee shall last, When this most beastly Iron age is past; I am perswaded, whilst we two haue slept, Our soules haue met, and to each other wept, 30 That destenie so strongly should forbid, Our bodies to conuerse as oft they did: For certainly refined spirits doe know, As doe the Angels, and doe here belowe Take the fruition ...
— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton

... which we have all been familiar from the earliest days of childhood as the hated rival of the young Hebrew state, whose wars with the Hebrews are the subject of so many of the heroic stories of Israel's Iron Age, was the last survival of the great race of Minos. Samson made sport for his Cretan captors in a Minoan Theatral Area by the portico of some degenerate House of Minos, half palace, half shrine, with Cretan ladies in their strangely ...
— The Sea-Kings of Crete • James Baikie

... at the old home that evening. There was plenty of gloom and forced gaiety around the board. John pretended that he was well out of a bad job; he was not a dreamer nor a socialist, not he; Utopia was not for the iron age. He told stories, joked and laughed, and smoked frequently. No one but the mother had the courage to ask if he really meant to tear down the mills. She came around the table, smoothed his hair as she had done since he was a boy, ...
— Half a Rogue • Harold MacGrath

... was in high favor among the colonists as a material for household utensils. It was not an iron age. They had iron pans, candlesticks, dishes, fire-dogs, and pots: the latter vessels were traded for vast and valuable tracts of land with the simple red men; but iron was not vastly in use. At an early date iron-foundries were established ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle

... over at Galland had made his peace with the King. But when the little Jehan was four years old the tides of war lapped again to the forest edges. One Hugo of Auchy, who had had a usurer to his father and had risen in an iron age by a merciless greed, came a-foraying from the north to see how he might add to his fortunes. Men called him the Crane, for he was tall and lean and parchment-skinned, and to his banner resorted all malcontents and broken men. He sought to conduct a second Conquest, making war ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan



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