Janie starched and ironed her face and came set in the funeral behind her veil. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A neat line of stitches ran from the collar halfway down the front of the shirt, which looked freshly ironed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The other half, separated by an iron gate, held the sick inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The salt and iron nail, a replacement for the one she’d lost in the attic, were both in her apron pocket. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My mother looks up from her ironing to ask me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a restaurant, too, where cooking was done over an iron stove instead of a fireplace; Jethro had eaten there once when he had come to town with Bill and Shadrach. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window was latticed with iron bars, and there was only the one door. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the shirt came off, I pretended not to notice Fang's always-impressive six-pack and his iron arms—the remnants of his climbing days. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My body was a knot of raw nerves and nausea, my lungs crushed against my rib cage like a prisoner in an iron maiden. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He envisioned a room next to his office fitted with a large walk-in vault, with airtight seams and asbestos-coated iron walls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Across the tall iron railing that separated Meeters from the Met, and Greeters from the Gret, Chacko, beaming, bursting through his suit and sideways tie, bowed to his new daughter and ex-wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lollys clutched at her maid, a slender, pretty girl with short dark hair who looked as though she wanted nothing so much as to shove her mistress into the dry moat, onto those iron spikes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She’d be getting her cap and gown, and Mom would be taking pictures, and Malcolm would be trying it on while she yelled at him not to wrinkle it after all that ironing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The girls went about the business of survival, collecting rainwater, identifying and gathering edible plant life, catching small fish with their straightening irons. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The only light came from the dim purple glow of a dark sword, its Stygian iron blade set against one side of the container. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Workers laid foundations of immense timbers in crisscrossed layers in accord with Root’s grillage principle, then used steam-powered derricks to raise the tall posts of iron and steel that formed each building’s frame. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He held the clothes iron to the side of her face. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The corrugated iron of the canneries glows with the pearly lucency of platinum or old pewter. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a hard man of middle height, with a beard so dark and heavy that the lower part of his face looked as though it were molded of iron. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Turns out I have an iron stomach,” I finished. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the top bureau drawer and examined the bottles which constituted the medicine chest of the house— paregoric, Pain Killer, Lydia Pinkham, iron wine tonic, Hall’s Cream Salve, Epsom salts, castor oil, ammonia. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He who was not Menda stepped forward and lay both hands on the iron head of the hammer. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the iron bits in her brain clicked a strong message to her—fly straight on. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The walls would have shamed any proper castle, and the ornamental iron spikes along the top looked strangely naked without heads to adom them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As if the humongous iron monster hadn’t made that clear. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Then I put Dinah’s old dress, which Mama had washed and ironed, back on her. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then the jeans went in the bin, except for one pair of impeccable, dark blue Levi’s, which Dad ironed and wore on weekends. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A table, an iron strongbox, and a stool sit in the center of the room. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

My knees feel a bit wobbly, but I let go of the iron ring in the door. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He wore an iron crown and held a leg of lamb in one hand as a king might hold a scepter, and his eyes followed Dany with mute appeal. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The cell had two doors: a metal gate or grille with iron bars on the inside and a thick wooden door outside of that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I swear it by bronze and iron," his sister said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Shawn suggested we use torches to cut the iron, but Dad said it would be too slow and cost too much in fuel. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Farther along they could see, dimly lit, great iron doors in the mountainside, some open and some shut; and from out of one of the mighty doorways, men were hauling something draped in a tarpaulin. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But even through the iron bars Meggie could see nothing promising except for tall rhododendron bushes and a broad gravel drive that soon disappeared between them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“There’s one clean but not ironed. I’ll iron it for you.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the loud, ringing scrape as Con drew his sword, and she reached for her own iron dagger. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The iron was in his eyes too, hard and dark. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Out on the street, a dozen small boys clung to the iron gate watching the neighborhood’s only horse being washed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tortured her, stretched her on the rack, tore her sides with iron hooks, burned her with blazing torches, and she said, Nay, I will not deny Our Lord. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“These iron monsters are killing us slowly,” the big man said grimly. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Stabbing him with bitter iron, searing him with hot coals, that sort of thing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She shimmied up a drainpipe, her thighs clinging to the iron. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“How else can you explain these houses, the iron deer, the pianos, the music?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth and the folds about it, even her nose and eyes, were like iron. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two colored men sat down on an iron bench a little away from the most crowded part, but not the edge. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still other soil microbes perform various oxidations and reductions by which minerals such as iron, manganese, and sulfur are transformed and made available to plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She had neither iron nor clothes but did not stop her fastidious lining up of pleats or pressing out of wrinkles even when she acknowledged Nel’s greeting. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I began to iron the blue dress that Beatrice had taken from the wardrobe, slowly, methodically, as I used to iron Mrs. Van Hopper’s dresses in Monte Carlo. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One wore a longsword at his hip, the other an iron cudgel. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dust cloths, monthly cloths, rags tied around pipe joints to hinder freezing; pot holders and pieces to test hot irons and wrap their handles. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She feels the entirety of the circus radiating around her, as though a net has been thrown over it, trapping everything within the iron fence, fluttering like a butterfly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Syl’s ma and pa was where I’d left ’em, leaning so’s the weight of the iron rod and chains was on the ground. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Tiny dead flies were stuck to the windshield, and the van was parked outside an iron gate. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Jimmy swung the tire iron again, cleaving off the nose in one swipe. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were a couple of iron cots with bare springs, one against either wall, the mattress pads rolled up at the foot of them in army fashion. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Marian remembered her grandmother Isabella as an imposing woman, tall and imperious, who ruled her family with an iron hand. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He had more faith in their iron loyalties and sense of honor than in the greed of sellswords. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

From her pocket he tugged a huge bunch of rusted keys on an iron ring like a mediaeval jailer’s and ran back up the hall with the two women behind him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stood in the basement ironing, with the girls sound asleep upstairs, I continued to pray. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it?” asked his grandmother, stirring the contents of a big iron pot on the stove. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see the big deal over ironing sheets,” he said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He grips the iron railing with his left hand and lunges forward with his right, grasping the sleeve of Alec’s shirt before he’s swept out of reach. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It took the blacksmith a hour of hard work to get the irons off Syl’s ma and pa. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It was folded, ironed, with “A.B.” monogrammed on the front in silvery threads. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I catch a sliver of a white shirt, the variety of which I’m used to ironing every day, and the leg of a pair of khaki pants like I hang up in Mister Johnny’s closet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baylor set the iron down firmly and stood with one hand on her hip. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She tried to wriggle free, but his arms circled her waist and tightened like an iron band around her rib cage. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have abandoned my intricate routine of gel, comb, mousse, straightening iron, curling iron, and hairspray...that would totally derail us getting to school on time. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

In the early twentieth century, husbands and doctors had the right to have their wives and patients held in psychiatric wards for indefinite periods, sometimes confined by straitjackets and leg irons. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Degalis threw his sword against the stone wall with a clang, and began running back towards the tower by the moat His iron feet threw echoes down the yard. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was closed fast, two great wooden gates, painted black and bound and studded with iron, closed upon each other. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“The red color is due to iron,” she told him. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although Ridgeway’s father scorned religious talk, Tom Bird’s testimony on the Great Spirit reminded him of how he felt about iron. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to sit this one out. I don’t want to be caught in a thunderstorm on an iron bridge.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He waits, watching the closed iron gates, wondering if the circus will be different than he remembers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I ironed it and then we sprayed it with perfume Big Ma left behind. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

After the pigs were scalded in the big iron tripod kettle and their skins were scraped and white, Jody had to go to the water-tub to sit in the grass until his heart grew quiet. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Uh huh. Sometimes I have such thoughts and dreams. I never give into them though, but I really think I am. A woman like me has to develop an iron discipline." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s brick with an iron fence surrounding it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The iron doorknob made a coiling creak as I turned it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The door was grey wood studded with iron, and Theon found it barred from the inside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The thin-legged thirteen-year-old moved swiftly around the side of the building to the iron steps that led to the higher floors. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Especially the one with the glasses with those iron rims. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

My weak, deluded scruples could avail nothing against the iron word of the prophet. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The links slithered and turned and grew taut, and Arya heard the creak of old dry wood as the great iron rings strained against the floorboards of the wagon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, I don’t think we’d ever had a colored person in our house until Betty Jean showed up ironing last week. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” he said as he emptied his purse onto the table then fingered through the jumbled coins: heavy silver talents and thin silver bits, copper jots, broken ha’pennies, and iron drabs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stone walls were wet with condensation, and the hot moist air smelled like sweat and iron and liquor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My mother said she used a laundry iron to flatten it out before pasting it next to hers in the scrapbook. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She realized that iron was burning through the Queen—iron from the unicorn’s blood—and it would kill her just like Kaede’s dagger had killed Elowen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Alec has reached the stairs, has grabbed the iron railing, takes two steps up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Inside the cabin, the boy’s mother was cutting wedge-shaped pieces of corn mush from an iron pot that stood on the back of the stove. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mikken had hammered a row of iron bars into the wall, so Bran could pull himself about the room with his arms. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They laid a platform four feet square and loaded it with iron to a pressure of 2,750 pounds per square foot, twenty-two tons in all. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Eventually, they left the creek, following a vein of iron over a ridge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He curried and brushed two saddle horses in the stalls, talking quietly to them all the time; and he had hardly finished when the iron triangle started ringing at the ranch house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were there when the real Brer Rabbit was taken by iron monsters. Before I punched the Bottle Tree, I might add. So you can’t pin all this on me.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

No voice was raised, until along towards noon iron bells spoke out aloud in the Chanter’s Tower, harshly tolling. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Fragments of burning debris had fallen into the space between the iron stack and the inner walls of the tower, made of smooth white pine. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On our break, I go stand outside on the iron bridge, slapping my own face to wake up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She spent most nights curled up at the foot of my parents’ iron double bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The constables returned him in an iron cage made by one of their cousins. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She would have only one opportunity to grab for the iron lantern that hung from the ceiling of the enclosure. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You’ll what? Stomp your little paws again? Go ahead. The Thicket is gone, remember? Whatever magic was in those thorns burned away when the iron monsters attacked.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The boys were -well dressed, their pants ironed and shirts tucked in. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Someone is coming to steal your lap, Colorá,” she said, as she passed Norma to Doña Zena, who held on to her with an iron grip. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Chronicler quickly decided that whatever the man was cooking in the iron pot, he wanted none of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He sat on the bridge top in the cold dawn, watching Leon climb down from the tree and Jon Wood grab the iron bow and climb toward him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He could snap chains round his chest simply by taking a big breath, and bend iron bars that it took two men to lift. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there came an iron thunk against the goal post, which bent at a sudden angle around Doug Swieteck’s brother’s head. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The remaining iron monsters screeched at this new enemy, and they thundered past us to attack her. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The heavy iron television stand fell over seconds later, shattering the bedroom window. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight the singing had come first, squeaking out of the iron bed, a man singing in Spanish, the melody of a familiar love song, two words again and again, “Y volvere. ” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, Van Helsing rose up and said with all his sternness, his iron jaw set and his bushy eyebrows meeting:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He unsheathed his Stygian iron blade and approached the archway. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Still he did not reveal himself, but kept his face hard as iron. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives it a good shove, and the black iron door creaks open on stiff hinges. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She ran on and on, limping and sobbing, until she had reached the big wrought iron gate. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was very Spanishy-looking with great thick walls, arched doorways, fancy iron grillwork, stained-glass panels in the windows and tile floors in the lobby. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers held her jaw as hard as an iron trap. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Is that so? Well, I thought I’d let you have the vacation your Pa and stepmother wanted for you. There’s plenty of ironing if you’re bored. Teach you what wash day is all about.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her feet felt fast and light as she slipped from the room and smelled the rich smell of coffee and of bacon sizzling in an iron pan. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sky was stained and colored; the clouds were thickened; the mountains took on an iron taint. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lilly was still using red- hot irons and an ounce of oil on every head. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He consulted a priest about the dream who told him that the iron wolf symbolized a large and formidable city, a city of opportunity. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“No. He said he and Anansi were working on a project for the Story Box, and then iron monsters attacked.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

None of this had amused Nurse, who made his displeasure clear by confining Mormont in an iron cage and having him beaten every evening as the sun sank into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At midnight, the bonfire is ceremoniously lit, having spent the earlier part of the evening standing empty, appearing to be a simple sculpture of twisted iron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The lake, he realized, was not black in reflection of the sky; the water itself was dark, flat, and as grim and heavy as iron. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Now I can bend and shape pieces of iron I find around the ruins of the Gribley house and barn. Eventually I’ll forge them into shovels, ladles, and even nails.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A powerful-looking man in his sixties, wearing a beautifully tailored linen suit and holding a Panama hat, stood on the gallery above and looked down over the iron railing. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without turning his head he saw an iron shovel resting in a near-by corner. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the carriage trundled toward a pair of magnificent wrought iron gates, flanked with stone columns topped with winged boars, Harry saw two more towering, hooded dementors, standing guard on either side. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“All the citizens left after the iron monsters attacked,” Brer continued. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I set up my ironing in the living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One passage was closed off by a heavy iron door. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They passed beneath three massive arches, down a torchlit ramp into the vaults beneath the pyramid, past cisterns, dungeons, and torture chambers where slaves had been scourged and skinned and burned with red-hot irons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A group of iron monsters broke off from the marina fight and chased after the Midfolk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, the room he’d slept in as a boy had been converted by his mother into a place to sew and iron and to store her clothes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He attacked it with his aunt Margie’s hot iron, hobbled it in a silk stocking every night, and slathered it with so much olive oil that flies trailed him to school. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the steps she reached an old wooden door with an iron pull ring. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the more he pounded, the more the metal twisted and buckled, until, finally, the iron sprang from the tongs and fell to the ground. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She put the iron on to heat while she sprinkled the shirt and set up the ironing board on two chairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’d ironed my poor plaid flannel as well as I could, twice, but the collar still looks crumpled and worn. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The leviathan of fire and iron pushed its way into the shallow harbor. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

They bound his hands and feet with wire, tied him to an iron post, and set fire to his body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want her iron levels to get too low.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The dentist was sympathetic; he had refused to treat Mac unless Mac’s leg irons were first removed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want good iron,” the innkeeper said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her ungainly iron ram, fashioned after the likeness of the fish from which she took her name, parted the surface of the river before her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

So it is zero outside, Quentin thought; soon he will raise the window and do deep-breathing in it, clench-fisted and naked to the waist, in the warm and rosy orifice above the iron quad. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Calloway’s body still dangled in the front of her mind; it felt like someone had put the image on a hot iron and branded it across her forehead. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I imagine it like an iron fence shutting behind him and scaring his horse. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Of that lean and terrible red ship he saw no sign, but his father's Great Kraken was there, her bow ornamented with a grey iron ram in the shape of its namesake. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the companions set the cauldron on the ground and quickly drew away, the rays of dawn turned the black iron as red as blood. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

When permitted, young Ridgeway stood in the corner while his father worked Pennsylvania iron. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There were thick bands of iron hugged ’round her ankles connecting up to some locks and chains that were keeping her where she was at. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I mend broken machinery and articles of iron. I lift heavy objects.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I should have felt some relief, some happiness—the iron monsters were gone. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The barrier fence that surrounds the grounds is made of wrought iron at least ten feet tall, and I wonder how Jackson was able to scale such a high fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Now to bring the tough bow out and bring the iron blades. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tore the letter into tiny bits and stuffed every shred of it into Mrs. Bedlow’s iron cook stove, and then, to her own amazement, burst into tears. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A square opening near the foot of the wall, in which an iron grating hung loosely, was letting a stream of water spill out and fall in a steady arc. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Earth contains a great deal of iron and rather little yttrium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At break time, everyone runs out to the iron bridge, because lying in the ditch below is a dead woman. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The thing was mostly iron and thicker than my palm in the middle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed more like Doom Manor than Daffodil Manor, since there wasn’t a flower in sight, just imposing gables and a wrought iron fence. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He closed the metal door and took the iron bar and pushed it through the holes that linked one metal door to the other. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She spoke to fire, and it promised it would not burn him; water gave its oath never to drown him; iron would not cut him, nor would any of the other metals. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think I know? I watch my mother starch and iron that stupid white uniform every single week. He’s prouder of that uniform than he is of us.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The same year, Papa replaced our old-fashioned white picket fence with a fancy iron one and set up the iron stag between the pittosporum bush and the elaeagnus. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Feel free to fold and iron my clothes, if you want,” Benji joked. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“After that we go on to Mar- garetville, and then the iron bridge at Delhi. That’ll be the first week in May.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Rondon was a strict disciplinarian, ruling his men with an iron fist. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Thunderheads rolled in, painted the sky iron gray. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped inside and she closed the door behind her, sliding the iron bolt home. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ophie reached for the small packet of salt and the iron nail in her pocket and nodded, the barest movement. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Lanterns swung from iron stanchions along the river road, swaying when-the wind blew. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He moves his eyes to the sides of their sockets to draw my attention to my ironing mother. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The iron rod lay near his elbow on the top of the mahogany bar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was standing at the ironing board, pressing one of my father’s dress shirts. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But the back was gray cement and three floors high, with iron bars over all the windows. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the center was a huge platform with all sorts of machines, cauldrons, forges, and the largest anvil I’d ever seen—a block of iron the size of a house. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I wore the white dress you give me in the kindness of your heart Nancy, and it was washed and ironed fresh and pretty. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huge colonial pieces made of blond oak and walnut arrived, along with heavy wool carpets, and lamps of hammered iron and copper. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It held his attention as though it were a steel magnet and his eyes were iron. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The iron would split it open with a wide gash, and blood would darken the white spot and make it the color of the man’s sunburned face. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you finished ironing? Come help me make lunch, and then we’ll bring it to the wheat field.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There’s a short set of steps there, an iron railing on both sides. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After hammering out a pile of jagged iron fragments, I slipped while crawling out and threw back my left hand to catch myself. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Prince Brat's face turned red as hot iron. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘Thank you, Master Johnny. I know I’m not as good as you are. Won’t you please to show me just how I should hold my crimping iron?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winnie, the only child of the house, never went there, though she sometimes stood inside the fence, carelessly banging a stick against the iron bars, and looked at it. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its extremities were soggy wooden beams intertwined with metal shackles, the iron restraints lining its limbs like veins. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Someone said John Jay was in England, trying to iron out our problems with the British. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went over to the enormous iron stove. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the wrought iron gate, with all its welded forks and pans, and tender-footed my way to the porch. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Convicted saboteur “John the Painter” stands in irons outside a prison in England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is especially striking that Australia has some of the world’s richest iron and aluminum deposits, as well as rich reserves of copper, tin, lead, and zinc. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We placed handcuffs and leg irons on our inmate, helped him into the van, and passed back through the sally port to the outside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among rows of brown-brick homes, all standing together like gingerbread houses surrounded by black, spiked, iron fencing, I knew our house was odd. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Kehaar had evidently found a big warren some way off to the south: and whatever the iron road was, the warren was on this side both of it and of a river. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or would she banish them with salt and iron? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When she had told him she was leaving the country, a week after their kiss at the movies, he looked as blank as an ironing board. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end it was closed by a gate of thick-set iron bars. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t occurred to me that Cecile didn’t own a hot comb or curling iron, even though that fact was as big and thick as her unpressed braids. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

While modern continental peoples included ones dependent on stone tools, as were Polynesians, South America also spawned societies expert in using precious metals, and Eurasians and Africans went on to utilize iron. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had a big nose, and she had on those glasses with sort of iron rims that aren't too attractive, but she had a helluva kind face. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Four feet of the school yard faced on Francie’s yard and was segregated from it by an iron mesh fence. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been running it with an iron fist ever since. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Standing at the edge of the candle’s flickering light, he opened his hand and the circle of iron fell to the wooden floor, ringing dully. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Those kids, she said, not looking up from her ironing. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in Alaska’s room—for the sake of getting me a girlfriend, she’d agreed to iron a green button-down shirt for me—when Jake showed up. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

One a clock come and I make sure I got my ironing all set up in front a Miss Leefolt’s tee-vee, tuned to Channel Three. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The kind lady saw him settled on a bench against the wall, and provided by a silent serving woman with a mug of chocolatl from the saucepan on the iron stove. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The dragon was kept in an iron cage. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Oil burned in black iron lanterns all along the walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He drowned that summer—I believe he let that iron collar just take him on down,” Teenie told her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the residents of the city forged an American dream of steel girders, fashioning opportunity with fire and iron. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They shimmied through a gap in the iron fence surrounding their school, just small enough for a Witchling. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She kept the fire blazing under the iron kettle. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

What was this thing that set his brains afire and grabbed at his throat with iron fingers? Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He heard the iron tires of the cart grinding on the road. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Its underside, made of iron girders, was perfectly straight—parallel with the surface and about eight inches above it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look around curiously at our rotting tents and the big iron pot hanging over the cook fire. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

While she waited for the iron to get hot, she heated the coffee and poured him a cup. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was indoors, next to an iron cookstove that was glowing cherry red. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance I could see that it was something meant for animals, twenty feet by ten, made of thick iron bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The iron lungs were used to frighten us, and as reasons why we couldn’t do things we wanted to. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He says he can sleep on the ironing board! The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chalk talk or pump iron when the weather gets wicked. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It had been built from wood and iron, and was by far the most beautiful and well-kept stable she’d ever seen, certainly far nicer than anything in the Night Zoo. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dill felt a swell of white-hot rage; it tasted like iron in his mouth. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He was cracked in the head many times when a length of iron bucked at an unexpected angle. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She sprinkled, she ironed a bit, she reached back to get her cigarette, she took a puff, she blew it out over her shoulder, then she started all over. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Alex’s childhood was perfumed with simmering peppers and onions and stew meat in a cast iron pot for caldillo, fresh masa waiting on the butcher block. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As I’ve already mentioned, my first lesson involved a handful of iron drabs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then someone called, and they looked to the door, and those who could move surged toward it, leaving several pinned beneath the iron stairs or dazed and struggling to get up from the rubble-strewn floor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door swung open on oiled iron hinges, making not a sound. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Looking closer, I ran my fingers over the black iron letters sitting along the top of the gate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The iron monsters behind the throne were unanimated and camouflaged to look like part of the statues. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I have no time to erase the stricken look on my face, but, lucky for me, she associates it with the conditioner and curling iron that I left on the desk. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The smith’s prentice grabbed for his iron rod and ended up knocking it to the floor where it rolled in a wide arc and came to rest under a table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The inn’s reputation was eclipsed by more modem establishments with roulette wheels and long-legged dancing girls, but it continued to attract honeymooners from the provinces, who admired its worn charm and elaborate iron grillwork. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besieged by fierce sparrows, rat sentries leaped in panic from the top of the ramparts; those who stayed were dealt with by Jess Squirrel who swung a heavy iron chain around like a deadly flail. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I took the pipe, gathered the glass, sweated — blew —my cheeks puffed out — the iron pipe banged my teeth —I blew like the Angel Gabriel sounding the horn for Judgment Day. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

The sight of the dark bruises, some as big as an iron across her back, lingers on the inside of my eyelids, each blink heavy with the weight of it all. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Like an ambassador to a hostile foreign country, my Guardian ad Litem was educated, elegant, and intimidating; however, Mrs. Moss ruled her fiefdom with an iron fist. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Before being led away in irons to the state penitentiary, Burkhart turned and smiled wanly at Mollie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I left the chicken over the fire too long because Madam ordered the silver polished and the table linens ironed in honor of her guests. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loma said the board walls in there were painted a bright yellow, and everything else was white: mantelpiece, door and window frames, iron bed, night stand, dresser, wardrobe, wicker chair—all white. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The Congolese pirogues are made of a dense wood that sinks like pig iron when given half a chance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car pool horn would honk, and she would rush out to join four other Japanese women who had fixed their hair that morning, applied the vanishing cream, and sported freshly ironed hankies. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did our laundry in the Laundromat, but those things that required ironing were taken to Lee’s house and the ironing chore was shared, as was everything else. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind people have, an iron box in which I put a coal left over from cooking. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jemmy opened the door and saw that the coach was heavily loaded with raw potatoes and a huge iron kettle. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The big press’s lid comes down on a hinge like a steam iron. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he held out the handful of iron drabs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We lived separated by thick doors with several bolts, windows with iron grates, peepholes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her hands found a heavy iron ring set in the wood, and she yanked at it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A world so different from our square rooms, with iron bars on every window, and lines of barbed wire that pierce our sky. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Sucking out of an iron culvert into a pool. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

You just put one between two sheets of wax paper and iron them. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wisp of scented smoke hung in the air, drawing her down the winding path to where the red priests had fired the great iron braziers outside the house of the Lord of Light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Every time Daddy walks through the door, I can hear the iron chains clank around TJ’s heart, stripping him of what little dignity he has left. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Stonesnake carried a bag of iron spikes 'as well, and a small hammer with its head wrapped in thick felt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She said she’d bought a really darling little iron that looked like it went with a doll house, but had forgotten to bring it. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; ’tis almost faerie time ...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At Holmes’s instructions Berkler added a number of components made of iron. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“No one ever came out and said, ‘Hey, you guys are doing a great job, just keep your sheets ironed,’” he recalls. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Buddy crouched by the door and held the iron skillet by its handle, his arm flexed and poised. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever one of the missiles landed intact on the rubble pile, she would seize it, standing in full view as she whirled the corded iron round and round, releasing it in a blur of speed. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Why was he thanking me instead of clapping irons on my arms? Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Sunday Mami starched and ironed my white piqué dress, packed a few changes of clothes in a small bag, and told me I was to spend a few days with Papi’s mother. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

For Lucretius the attraction of iron by a magnet takes place according to a law of nature, and species breed true, dogs producing dogs and cats cats, according to a law of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Past the SS guards standing sentry, Papa and I walked through the scrolling iron gates, stopping at every place where a bulb pushed its new leaves through the warming ground. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was magnetic, my DNA reaching out for the iron in the blood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time of the Crusaders it was long swords and arrows, and at Gettysburg they were blasting each other to bits from cannons filled with lead balls, iron chains, railroad spikes, and door knobs. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Those were the sounds that played in my head at night now—the jingle of corrugated tin, the short tap of copper wire, the thunder of iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With a calm skill, without the slightest misstep, he left his accumulated grief behind and found Remedios changed into a swamp without horizons, smelling of a raw animal and recently ironed clothes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His throat tasted of bloody iron and there was rusted steel in his feet. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing Doreen supported in my arms and silent except for a few wet hiccups, the woman strode away down the hall to her cubicle with its ancient Singer sewing machine and white ironing board. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Reaching the top, we stepped out onto a series of slim iron walkways twenty-five feet above the ground, weaving their way among the thick timbers that supported the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The light was dimming, the road was straight, with neither house nor human being in view—nothing but land winter-stripped and as somber as sheet iron. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the very center a spiral staircase of wrought iron led up through an opening to the floor above. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear about the colored boy this morning? One they beat with a tire iron for accidentally using the white bathroom?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The two vast iron doors of the Black Gate under its frowning arch were fast closed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Mister, I need you to be a man,” she said with iron in her voice. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the day, he learned how to wash the floors and clean the windows and empty out the iron stove. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I hope you’ve done nothing to dampen their morale,” Ignatius said gravely, tapping his cutlass impatiently on the iron gate. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The piece of iron lay on the inside of the fence at the boy’s feet. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In both the Fertile Crescent and China, iron objects became common only after about 2,000 years of experience of bronze metallurgy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lanterns swung from iron chains above the doors of inns and pleasure houses, but within the gates, they were made of colored glass, not parchment. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I retched until my throat burned, an iron band of pain cinched tight around my windpipe. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The heads were mounted between the crenels, along the top of the wall, impaled on iron spikes so they faced out over the city. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She spritzed some water from a bottle onto the cuff of a shirt and pressed the iron against it, making the steam rise up to her face. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

If Mother headed to the back porch while I was behind the tree, Constantine would rush out and bang her broom handle on the iron stair rail. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The walls are thick bluish stone, and the only way in is blocked by a huge iron portcullis. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pollard tipped back in the irons and Seabiscuit tugged on his hands, picking off six furlongs in 1:12X, marvelous time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spit some out, and a big black blob lands on the white blouse Mami washed and ironed for me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Still, the iron law demanded a trial, so there’d be one next month, when the quarter court came through these parts on its rounds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now the slice, sitting on the grid, which was held in place by the tire iron, was positioned in the microscope, centered in the beam of electrons. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the very core of Jupiter there may be a lump of rock and iron, an Earth-like world in a pressure vise, hidden forever at the center of the largest planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teresa gripped the bars now, her knuckles white, her face pressed against the iron rods. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was mounted on a shaggy grey stallion, his shield hung from the horse's side; wood banded with iron, white and grey, and on it the snarling face of a direwolf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If I were a boy, would I be staying home to fold laundry and iron clothes? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Each cell had one window, about a foot square, covered with iron bars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen hearth was crowded with irons heating to press the tablecloths and serviettes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as she reached the edge, an iron grip fastened onto her shoulder. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dad pours pale batter over our waffle iron. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I flung open the iron gate and threw myself through the front door. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some one rapped on the cage with an iron bar. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

What I was chained to, and how heavily, became intelligible to me, as I heard his hoarse voice, and sat looking up at his furrowed bald head with its iron grey hair at the sides. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then I have to open the door again because the soldiers are here, carrying painted iron bed frames. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the bridge’s center span, the severed hands of thieves and cutpurses hung like strings of onions from iron stanchions along the roadway. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Old Ben stopped the wagon next to the open hole near the iron fence, then climbed down and walked to where Nehemiah the gravedigger was waiting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

First there was a very high iron bridge, as high-arched as a rainbow, and after a bit of low stone bridge built in the shape of an S-curve, and I was on Deer Isle. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no time to count, but there were ten at least, a line of them, on foot, blocking the street, with longswords and iron- tipped spears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He let go of an oar and reached his crooked hand up to the iron ring set in the post at the corner of the jetty. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If you stepped on one, it snapped open and dropped you into a pit filled with poisoned iron spikes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Certainly my father ran his stores with an iron attitude. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The herbs brushed against her skirt as she went down the path and out the low iron gate to the meadow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rusty iron door, set into the part of the wall visible to the Row’s occupants, rouses the pigeons whenever it is opened, puts them in a flap, for the hinges creak so, scream. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hooks were attached by a yard or so of leather cord to a bell-shaped iron weight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The dense iron of the locomotive rusted from his mere presence, and the paltry patches of grass shriveled and died under his feet. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I would have needed a chest like an iron bellows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Werner crosses into a bedroom and slides open the window and peers over an iron balcony. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Like a storm they broke upon the line of the men of Gondor, and beat upon helm and head, and arm and shield, as smiths hewing the hot bending iron. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He makes his living forging wrought iron items like garden gates and fences, railings, stairs, and fireplace tools. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When they reached the cave, they found a fire, a rabbit roasting, and Serafina Pekkala stirring something in a small iron pot. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She strode to the iron fence, putting her hand through one of the gaps. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As tight as the chains were, Tyrion found he could see out the latter by leaning sideways and letting the iron ring support his weight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The gold on his body was definitely smoking now, attracted to the catapult’s payload like iron to a giant magnet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The taste of cold iron in his mouth gave him comfort. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There ns were the fake logs and the fake iron parts. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stocky strength seemed striving for release and his fingers, as they twisted each other with nervous yanks, might have forced an iron bar out of true. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The elevator door on the first floor was ornamental iron lace. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My belly and behind were as heavy as cold iron, but it seemed my head had gone away and pure air had replaced it on my shoulders. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie crept out of the bedroom and down the stairs, stopping only to grab the iron nail and salt out of the pocket of her work apron. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Graham left a handful of iron nails and bid the innkeeper good day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What’s more, the iron grate was on the opposite side of the small courtyard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Climbing that was quicker than a ladder, though the iron spokes were startlingly cold against my still-wet hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was an opening in the bars with a flat, iron shelf attached on the inside. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or is this all hallucination, sent against me by the iron queen, Persephone, to make me groan again?’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackie Robinson is the grandson of a slave, the son of a sharecropper, raised in poverty by a lone mother who took in ironing and washing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She laid an iron pan atop the brazier and put the bacon in. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Last night I dreamed of us all,” Adaon said, thoughtfully fingering the iron clasp at his throat. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday morning before breakfast Abuela handed me my piqué dress, washed and ironed. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"It appears quite old," Mr. Norton said, looking across the bare, hard stretch of yard where two women dressed in new blue-and-white checked ginghams were washing clothes in an iron pot. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the gods transformed the intestines of Loki’s murdered son into fetters so tight and so hard that they might have been iron. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I can tell you a story,” Pinmei said, her voice as hard as iron, “but it is not one of my grandmother’s.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Alyce left the barn and went next to the smithy, where the manor blacksmith and his apprentices were hammering lumps of iron into shoes for horses. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some developments spread from south to north in China, especially iron smelting and rice cultivation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

However, the strung iron bits soon proved to be a two-edged weapon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A giraffe passed between us—its long neck bobbing gracefully even in panic—and when it was gone I saw that she’d picked up an iron stake. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’m about eight months old, a pudge-faced, no-nonsense bruiser in diapers and an ironed white dress, looking ready to slide out of my mother’s clutches, staring down the camera as if I might eat it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We passed under the iron teeth of the gate. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It sounded, Eleanor thought, like a hollow noise, a hollow bang, as though something were hitting the doors with an iron kettle, or an iron bar, or an iron glove. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rorge wore his iron helmet, with the nasal that half hid his missing nose. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then O-lan crept out and she took a great iron knife she had in the kitchen and she cut a great gash in the beast’s neck, and thus she severed its life. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He bent to no god save the glowing iron he tended in his forge. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He would need to bum them eventually, no doubt, but for the nonce they were bound with iron chains inside their cells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If we can’t get up there, that hole will keep growing, and those iron monsters from the bone ships will keep boiling out of the Burning Sea!” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Huge finlike wind wings stuck up along their lengths, harnessing the breezes to help move the lumbering ships and their scrap loads of nickel, copper, iron, and steel. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Use the white bathroom at Pinchman Lawn and Garden. Say they wasn’t a sign up saying so. Two white mens chased him and beat him with a tire iron.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I was practicing my lefty dribble next to the iron gate that surrounded the courts when one of the guys fell hard to the ground. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The awesome supernova explosion ejects into space most of the matter of the precursor star—a little residual hydrogen and helium and significant amounts of other atoms, carbon and silicon, iron and uranium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The twisting iron fence that surrounded it, the smooth red rock that made up the facade, the wide windows that winked in the sunlight. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They seemed made of iron and old, dark clothing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When I revealed it, each word felt like a hot iron hook being ripped from my flesh. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I found the two wine-bottles in the pack, and carried them up the road to where the water of a spring flowed out of an iron pipe. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A hand grabbed his shoulder, five fingers hard as iron digging deep into his flesh. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Encanis screamed, because he knew that even demons can die from fire or iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Of gold and silver and gemstones, it had none; bronze and iron were the metals of winter, dark and strong to fight against the cold. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

According to my Trail Guide there was public parking at the old iron works, so there must be a road out. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Connor are in the corner, waiting as steam rises from the waffle iron. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I gripped it, the iron bands that reinforced the wheel crumbled in my hand, flaking away in gritty sheets of brown rust. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ellis Island had been made out of wood and iron. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set the iron on an unlit pilot to cool. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Old Mrs. Antolini's hair was full of those iron curler jobs, and she didn't have any lipstick or anything on. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Finally they passed through a thick wooden door, which Michelangelo used a long iron key to bolt behind them, and out into a narrow alley. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I spoke slowly, with iron force behind every word. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel couldn’t see much through the gloom, but she felt a presence within, as if she were a chunk of iron close to a large magnet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They left through the gap in the wall and flew to the outskirts of the ruins, then followed the vein of iron up out of the valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Frightful was making a scrape, a peregrine falcon’s nest, which is nothing but bare earth or, in Frightful’s case, an iron plate where she wanted to sit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He explains the basic equipment you need: a couple of magnets, some small iron bars, some iron pointers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As Mona rocked nearby, Taisin stared at the iron pot in the fire, wondering if she had been right to let the greenwitch take her blood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The most important new elements were Japan’s first metal tools, of iron, and its first undisputed full-scale agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Doors of wood, doors of iron, doors of air and magic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She walks me over the iron bridge, and I keep my steps slow so that if Lubek comes to the house, I won’t be there to let him in. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Down in the locker were a few cattle and sheep and pigs and horses hanging from iron hooks. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press the corner of my iron into Mister Johnny’s collar-point. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The blades were made of dense iron, twelve inches thick and five feet across. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her expression was as hard and dark as iron. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The curling iron continues up until it curls back into itself, weaving in and out amongst the other curls, giving it the cage-like effect. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Now!” cried the Wart With a blood-curdling beat of iron hoofs the mighty equestrians came together. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy moved quickly around the corner and out of sight of the iron door and the gray cement walls of the jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One firm, Merchant & Co., which had supplied the iron for his kiln and vault, had gone so far as to secure a writ of replevin to take the iron back. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It glanced off the iron rail, even as Saruman left it, and passing close to Gandalf’s head, it smote the stair on which he stood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Then they beat him senseless and tied him to an iron cross and threw him back in his cell. He died tied to an iron cross. He died on a cross.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say thank you, but I just stared at the picture in the heavy iron frame. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She jumped back in alarm, and Tali laughed at her as he eased the iron kettle into the fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She’s short, and oblong in shape, so that her iron- gray cardigan falls straight from shoulder to hip with no pause in between for a waist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over this ran aluminum roaches and iron crickets, and in the hot still air butterflies of delicate red tissue wavered among the sharp aroma of animal spoors! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

With outstretched nets, noise-making implements, shouts, and sharp-pointed spears, they drove him back and back till he reached one of the iron gates, which was raised and then lowered swiftly behind him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A weight settled on my shoulders like a cloak of iron. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taran drowsed with one hand on the iron brooch, the other grasping his sword. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could see by the tremulous light that even Van Helsing’s iron nerve had failed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The heat was almost gone out of the radiators: the cold iron fluting stem signal and admonition for sleeping, the little death, the renewal. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she blows her nose loudly in her cross-stitched handkerchief, freshly washed and ironed by me, the unpaid servant, sitting on the floor below her. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron collar about his neck was fastened to the wall behind him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s forged from one piece of iron. I have had it since I left my mother’s home; it used to be my father’s dagger. It will now be yours.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two iron legions out of New Ghis, trained and armed in the same fashion as Unsullied, were encamped across the river to the north. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Parts of sub-Saharan Africa were divided among small states or chiefdoms with iron tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning, the keepers marched each gallery’s prisoners to an outdoor latrine to dump their tall iron slop cans, or night buckets, which each man carried in his left hand. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron gate creaked quietly as she pushed it open, almost as if it were welcoming her home. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She gripped the naked stems, the iron wires the blacksmith had drawn out on the anvil last week, just for her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One was warded by a ring of skulls mounted on rusted iron spears, so he dared not enter, but he had explored the second for as long as he could. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With the final onset of dark the iron cold locked down and the boy by now was shuddering violently. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

On the wall by the window, an iron stood on an ironing board. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day of school Mami walked me to a stone building that loomed over Graham Avenue, its concrete yard enclosed by an iron fence with spikes at the top. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She put down the iron, glancing furtively at the door. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

No matter how hot it got, Big Ma had to iron white cotton sheets with light starch. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On their iron spikes atop the gatehouse, the heads waited. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even their leather combat boots looked ferocious with their iron cleats, great for marching through mud or stomping on faces. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The chains about the dead had cooled by now, she saw, but still held the corpses fast in their iron embrace. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“No,” Mami said, “it’s worse. If you get polio, you die, or you spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair or inside an iron lung.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It worked again and again, his own iron fact, in alleys and pine barrens and swamps. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“This time in handcuffs, leg irons, and a hood.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dicey entered the playground through the tall iron gates. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two guards sat outside the door, and another two waited by the window, which was covered by iron bars. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sweated, his whole body shook, and his knuckles turned white round the iron bedhead, but he did not make a sound as she continued to pull the pieces clear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"I will command the City Watch to help you find iron. Melt down every horseshoe in this city if you must." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She glanced at 426, leaned down, and scraped the iron plate. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There are staircases, also of wood, which creak when we climb them, and banisters we aren’t supposed to slide down, and iron radiators that make banging noises and are either stone cold or blazing hot. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

To get to the boardinghouse, they’d have to cross a little iron footbridge that spanned the river, but Coram didn’t go that way. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the fire the man in the heavy cloak held his iron cudgel ready with both hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His arms swung in apelike gyrations of glee, and he held another piece of iron in one hand and his cap in the other. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marv rings me in the evening and orders me to go since everyone voted me best player for ironing out old Mimi. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Loli then recounts how Ester rushed at her with an ironing board and chased her into the stairwell of their building, knocking her against the wall and holding her there like a prisoner. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that you needed something really hot–hotter even than the middle of the hottest stars–to forge carbon and iron and the other elements without which we would be distressingly immaterial. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I didn’t even know we had an iron.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It's heavy, made of iron, and when engaged, it holds the door properly shut. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the first touch of iron, Encanis began to stir in his sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then she starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see, and opened up the window and cried, “Come heah people! Jody is dead. Mah husband is gone from me.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, as the wind moaned across the heath and the Crochan loomed before him like an iron shadow, he thought once again of the brooch, and he buried his face in his hands and wept. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

We stop before the ornate iron gate of a slaver's home, and the Tribesman checks my manacles, his tan robes swishing softly as he moves around me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Deborah, black, her body as shapeless and hard as iron, looked on with veiled, triumphant eyes, cursing the Florence who had mocked her in her pain and barrenness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Like stone under the saw. Try a chisel, like iron. Then, after all the shouting was done, I couldn’t char it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He carried a heavy spear tipped in iron, taller than he was, and a sword hung at his side in a leather sheath. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Once the iron doors had glowed red-hot, her Unsullied told her, and no one dared to touch them for a day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tag nodded toward Buck and the others, still standing with their fists balled and tire irons in their hands. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it’s the iron gray of the afternoon sky overhead, casting gloom as it always does this time of year, but today the two of them look especially worn down and tired. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a time to wash clothes and a time to iron them, fold them, and put them away. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was a thrill to be in such a different world and I’d feel a prickly awareness of how good my shoes were, how clean my white pinafore dress that Constantine had ironed for me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"I am your brother, you know. You need me, whether you care to admit it or no. Your son needs me, if he's to have a hope of retaining that ugly iron chair." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The ironing shelves had been taken down, along with everything else. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a mark in the middle of his forehead from a piece of iron that flew from a machine in a factory. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She was waiting not only for the irons to heat but also for a brutal woman black as soot known to carry a knife. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This rock—it’s a lodestone, magnetic iron ore. There was a pile of them back in my pit. I kept one in my pocket just in case,” said his dad. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His great claws dug into the ground, and his black eyes glowed with rage under the iron helmet. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I think so. It is made of iron.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We’ll ask her something like “Did you iron my linen dress like I asked you to?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the clay from the village pits contained exactly the right amount of iron to produce the exquisite gray-green color of celadon so prized by collectors. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A jagged piece of iron tore open the skin and crushed the fingers of one of his hands against the fence. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was an ironing board with things throwed at it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He took the envelope by a tiny corner and put it on the anvil, and then he scrubbed his hands in the half-barrel of black water into which he plunged hot iron. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Kat said Auntie Glo sounded insane and I said that Salim must be tiny if he could expect to sleep on an ironing board. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discovered now that my head was encircled by a piece of cold metal like the iron cap worn by the occupant of an electric chair. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on Monday night the leaders were taken from their homes and sent to jail in the capital of the province with two-pound irons on their legs. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And whilst it had been waving and jumping in my hand, it was steady as iron in hers. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He could hear the crash of iron axeheads on oaken shields over the terrified trumpeting of a maimed horse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Comrade Pillai stepped carefully around this wrinkle, waiting for a suitable opportunity to iron it out. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some had bear-paws for their horses too, and the shaggy little garrons wore them as easily as other mounts wore iron horseshoes ... but the palfreys and destriers wanted no part of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They entered a hallway hung with iron chandeliers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Like the other buildings, it had its porches with the iron rails. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Brer said the Golden Crescent was the first to be ravaged by the iron monsters,” she responded. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Three guards with hard eyes, smelling of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walk through the snack bar, ignoring Patsy Joiner, my old tennis partner who dumped me, and three other girls, all smoking at the black iron tables. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A huge god, red-bearded and muscular, wearing iron gauntlets and holding an iron hammer, which he swung, once. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

She tried to iron the flyer flat over her bag of magic, but the creases wouldn’t straighten. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She was hard as iron, saying that her nuptial chamber should not be subjected to the stench of the sea-bottom that accompanied this penniless wretch. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She continues to run around the outside of the caged room, as if maybe the iron bars won’t be there the next time around. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Inside it is lit by a line of black iron sconces along the rounded wall and contains nothing but a ring of plain wooden chairs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She deserves to be here, caged behind iron bars, trapped in her own jungle, left to stew in the memories. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After five days of digging, we were finally rewarded with the sound of a pick hitting cast iron. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Trouble me no longer! I will set fire to your blood and fill you with a fear like ice and iron!” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with the smell of etching acids, hot iron, and sweat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only a short while ago, drüskelle would have been gathered in this niche of the wall to welcome their new brothers ashore, but now it was empty, the iron grating chained. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I try and iron some pleats, but my hands is shaking and they come out all crooked. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m not so sure,” Stella said, gazing at the iron bars surrounding her. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The curls of iron around the letters do remind him of pumpkin vines. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That kid is so sharp—got it right away, tossed Maman’s irons into the kitchen fire to hot up, pointed me to the ironing board, and ran for her sister. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But their hands dosed about hers, as she pulled on the big iron door handle, and suddenly she felt strong. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

One of the men in irons was talking to her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Deep gouges ran for yards, as if the iron monsters had taken out their wrath on the earth itself. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He knew that Hazel and the rest had come from the north and crossed the iron road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he hoisted himself up on his game leg and went to the iron stove against the north wall of his office. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wide arch of the Water Gate came into view, and she heard the creak of heavy chains as the great iron portcullis was winched upward. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The way it works is, you shove cotton into the seam between the plank and the keel with a caulking iron, which is like a dull chisel with a wide blade. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

All the while, his arms formed an iron cage of protection around me — I was barely jostled. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry if this iron is hurting you,” said Kay, "but we have come to rescue our friends." The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet they brought him money: leather purses plump with gold and silver and the square iron coins of Braavos. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In another list, Cora marked the decisions that led her to this wagon and its iron rings. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I went in and found Rufus in bed with his leg sandwiched between the two boards of a wooden splint and held straight by a device of rope and cast iron. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The minister, a man of iron with tool-steel eyes and a delivery like a pneumatic drill, opened up with prayer and reassured us that we were a pretty sorry lot. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old bridge stretched massively across the water, its huge iron frame as black as the sky. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Pollard awaited a decision on whether or not he would be in the irons. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Arwyl is stubborn as pig iron. There is no bending him.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We walked past the iron fence and the garden to a big back yard that was filled with trees and grass. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How you doin’?” Sula moved a pile of ironed diapers from a chair and sat down. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The boys get their hair cut on Saturdays, the women curl their hair with iron tongs hot from the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He tested it by putting his finger next to the iron. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The iron monsters are tearing our families apart.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I filled a bin with two thousand pounds of iron; then, my arms aching, I ran to find Dad. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

However, I saw the iron wagon axle iced against a tree, and crawled to it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Built of stout timber, banded with iron, beset with florin spikes, the door did not appear to be locked. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When Farmer’s bus pulled into the Greyhound station in Anniston, Alabama, on May 14, 1961, it was met by an angry mob armed with clubs, bricks, iron pipes and knives. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She then sewed them shut and roasted them slowly in the big iron kettle. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even if the iron missed its target, the stones and shattered metal fragments ricocheted about dangerously. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mia, putting the clothes to wash, noticed that the shirts smelled of Tide and perfume rather than dust, that they were crisp, as if they’d been ironed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Many of the greenhouse's windows had been shattered, and its iron frame was spotted with rust. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The principal, a woman with white hair and an iron face, looked down at him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A remarkably foul odor hung in the air, and the passage descended to a lonely black door with an iron padlock. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Above his head the sky stretched in a cold, dark-blue oval, cupping the city like an iron palm covered with silk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rusted iron bars cage the first floor windows. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

On one side of the stone floor, a set of stairs had been excavated, leading down to a modern iron gate with a padlock. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until 1828 that an enterprising Scot named James Neilson had the simple but effective idea of injecting heated air rather than cold air into an iron furnace by means of a bellows. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"From the sea. Beyond the sea. The Seven Lands, he said. Sunset Lands. Where men are iron and dragons rule. He taught me this speech." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Take in some sewing. Maybe a little ironing.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He washed his face in the steel-cold water of the iron trough by the windmill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are two men filling bags with coal and turf and weighing them on the great iron scale, a hundredweight in each bag. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The neighbors nodded and made polite clucking noises as they walked to their iron ponies. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It laid hold of the iron ring, and then it perceived me and my spell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He scrambled over to the opening in the floor and reached down and sliced through the iron of the top step as if it were paper. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was light enough for her to see the iron stairway curving around and around up to the tower, and the little door at the top. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their Dime Lion guide pushed open a heavy iron door and gestured for them to follow him down a steep staircase. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Once we snared Anansi and convinced him to close up the tear in the sky, the gods and heroes could work together to defeat the iron monsters once and for all. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He came alone, wearing his silver sword and haubergeon of black iron scales. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sleep on a narrow bed in the room where they keep the ironing board and sewing machine and mops and brooms and buckets. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam nodded, even though the fear was still a tangled necklace in her stomach, heavy and iron. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The prentice struck again and again, swinging the heavy iron rod lightly as a willow switch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She picked up the box and banged it hard against the iron stove, just once, to show me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dog barked from behind an iron gate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small bare room with nothing in it except an old wardrobe, a wooden chair, and an iron bedstead. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The inside has a nice iron ladder to a ledge where I can sit and peer out over the decks. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They wore handcuffs and iron collars with chains connecting the collars to a central chain that ran between the two lines. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

One or the other was always pressing pants, smoothing out a tie or ironing a shirt. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico drew his sword—three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Against the near wall was a small iron stove that supplied heat by burning dried yak dung. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they came to a pair of huge iron doors with rusted hinges, guarded by Unsullied. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But she kept looking and before long could make out short iron bars bolted into the bank, one below the next, almost directly below her. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at her, you got the feeling that this was someone who could bend iron bars and tear telephone directories in half. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mama went to the stove and took out her big iron skillet with a folded-up kitchen towel and her oven glove. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Already they were turning on Ged again, coming quick and ungainly with iron beaks stretched out agape. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A small moan escaped from Poppy's mouth when he saw her through the iron bars, but he wasn't crying. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the heavy glass, iron fencing and dirt of many years refused to filter the light through. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Mama’s insistence, I’m in a velvet party dress, and even Mustafa grudgingly agreed to put on an ironed shirt and some jeans without any holes. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He explored every inch of the region, even the riverbed, dragging the two iron ingots along and reciting Melquíades’ incantation aloud. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It looms across from the ticket booth, just inside the large iron gates. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were half a world away from home, too far to let them see that their iron captain had begun to rust. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In reply, he held up a large, rusted, iron key. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He drove iron stakes into the ground to fortify the chicken coop against future mink attacks and treasured the few eggs he gathered every morning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mary pressed the hot iron against the apron on the table. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His iron staff was as tall as he was and crowned with a dragon’s head; when he stamped its butt upon the deck, the dragon’s maw spat crackling green flame. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I can tell you one thing,” the doctor said, “if it was the younger sister sneaking around this house at night, she had nerves of iron. It watches,” he added suddenly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She felt tiny iron particles in her brain lining up with the earth’s magnetic field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Years and years and years ago she had guided the tip of the iron into the seams of a man’s white shirt. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pausing only to stamp the escape alarm, they set out behind him toward the iron road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bounding across the still water at the foot of the old white one, he caught the scent of a stranger, the man-smell well mixed with leather and earth and iron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Halleck issued an order: If the assassins are caught, put them in double irons and take them to the commander of the Washington Navy Yard, who will confine them to a monitor warship anchored there. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark the iron could pass for tarnished diver. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I stare at the shirt on the ironing board, half wrinkled, half smooth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a clang of horseshoe on iron stake outside and a little cheer of voices. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above him loomed a grotesque fat man with a forked yellow beard, holding a wooden mallet and an iron chisel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Turner looked over the river, he saw an iron sheet of rain coming toward him, lit up from behind through a rip in the dark purple of the clouds. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The touch of the iron hilt seemed to unstick her feet from the floor at last, and she moved through what felt like thick mud toward the monstrous child. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Four little boats were tied to either bank, and there were several other doors—some wooden, some iron—that led to this exit. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The banner streamed from an iron mast, shivering and twisting as the wind gusted, like a bird struggling to take flight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was smoothing it with his iron trowel. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She decided to bring nothing but the clothes on her back and the iron dagger that Fin had given her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was there in the hand-washed and ironed clothes on the cane-seat chair, in the warm slippers left outside my door, in the wood already burning in the stove when I came down for breakfast. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

With the tongs, he picked up the bent iron and examined it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

So I started over, this time ironing till everything was smooth and flat. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I arrive a full hour early, just as the guard is opening the iron gates. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not far away the stranger's horse, loosely tied to an iron ring in the wall of the donkey's stable, was grazing. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Their throwing arms were made from the trunks of old oaks, and banded with iron to keep them from splitting. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Soldiers, their chests covered with iron plates, were guarding the entryway. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was something, first, about a dress in her bag that had to be ironed. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I know you don’t and I can’t explain it. I just didn’t want to be ironing and sweating. You know what ironing and sweating is?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But with the iron word forbidden tolling like a heavy bell by his ears, Turner would not let himself be brought to Malaga. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When one iron cooled off, I’d set it back on the stove and pick up the hot one, running it over a piece of old flour sacking to clean off any ash. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He backed up against the next vertical iron web to keep out of sight of the workers and glanced at the river far below. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Desperately the companions flung themselves back and forth, fighting against the mute, iron enemy. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mother was ironing, and Mrs. van D., the first victim, sat down on a chair in the middle of the room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But my father tried to teach me smithing, and when I ruined a piece of iron, out came his fist. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then a grip stronger and colder than iron seized him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He used to wait for me to sit at the breakfast table before he started iron­ing—that way, we could talk. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sweating and wiping his forehead with a white handkerchief that Mami has starched and ironed for him. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

A punch from an Ent-fist crumples up iron like thin tin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Alice raised the ironing board and spread newspaper under it to keep the hems clean. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the last to arrive, and the remaining space was next to Mychal, across from Davis, who was wearing a plaid button-down, nicely ironed, sleeves rolled up just so, exposing his forearms. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Singer saw the room just as he had left it—with the large bed for Antonapoulos and the iron cot for himself, the big overstuffed sofa and the camp chair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like a clay mold around a now-cool piece of iron they fell away, leaving something clean and hard behind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Father spread a shirt out on the ironing board. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked around the hedge to the iron grate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He stood on the threshold of a small white room furnished only with an iron bed, a cabinet, and two chairs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She was poising in her hand the iron bar that she had torn off the lamp-post, ready to throw it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The hue and cry going off to the Hulks, and people coming thence to examine the iron, Joe’s opinion was corroborated. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Another displayed a gigantic turtle, strung up by its legs on iron chains, heavy as a horse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her hair had become white and streaked with iron, and the flesh of her thin cheeks was wrinkled. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The iron straps rattled around in the box, and a leg of venison, wrapped in wet burlap to keep it cool, jumped around on top of the iron. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On winter days it swims with the odor of roasting chestnuts; on summer evenings it becomes slow and drowsy, full of sleepy conversations and the scraping of heavy iron chairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“For only such a horrible place could create such creatures who could burn a person with a flaming hot iron.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the eastern side, in the angle of two piers, there was a great door, high above the ground; and over it was a shuttered window, opening upon a balcony hedged with iron bars. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Beneath the iron grating of a murder hole Snow broke the silence, as she had known he would. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If he had understood rightly, it seemed to follow that the iron road and the river could be ignored for their purposes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping us out of the condos is the black iron fence with sharp spikes at the top. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Yiddish phrase he used was, literally translated, “an iron head.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It would certainly need an enterprising officer—Captain Campion perhaps—for patrols seldom crossed the iron road, and the wet country beyond—the country near the river—was only partly known. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that, the old man glanced quickly at the clock across from the toy booth and headed out under the great iron ribs of the train station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Mom is still ironing when I get downstairs at 6:40 AM on Thursday. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Yet we spend money and spend money on roads and dam if it isn’t like trying to drive over a sheet of corrugated iron roofing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had my camisoles and underthings laid out to iron next when I heard a horse in the yard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I took the older iron and flicked a few drops on its surface. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Twenty iron sconces were mounted along his thick stone walls, but only four held torches, and none of them was lit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Blue skies stood tall and far, the sun like a branding iron searing the back of your neck. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wood was damp and moldy, the iron studs rusted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Lucia’s ironing board, the water bottles, and the large stock of flour had all vanished. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Left . . . left . . . hook . . . cross, once he thought Hubbard's head jerked back, but then the iron pipes were ramming into his stomach, one after another. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But soon enough the Rusty Ruins appeared below, and the board’s metal detector guided Tally to the natural vein of iron. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Although Pa didn’t intend for me to work hard, Big Ma had been promising to hand down the task of ironing Ma Charles’s bedsheets to me since the last time we came south. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“She cook and wash and iron. Come here, gal. Let the folks see you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

By a stroke of luck he found an iron spike that had been thrown at Basil by one of the rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At bayonet-practice I had constantly to fight with Himmelstoss, I with a heavy iron weapon, whilst he had a handy wooden one with which he easily struck my arms till they were black and blue. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the monument were white headstones inside a black iron fence. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It felt like someone was pressing a hot iron into his skin, but Percy managed not to scream. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet when the knight left, he locked the door behind him with a heavy iron key. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to become as strong as them iron monsters, so I can do some snatchin’ of my own.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She wore a perfectly ironed, cream-colored linen dress, and her eyes sparkled with excitement, as if she were about to go to her first dance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When he said the last word, he slammed the tire iron down on what was left of the right wing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Five areas of technology may be singled out: First, metals—initially copper, then bronze, and finally iron—were used for tools in all complex Eurasian societies as of 1492. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she reached the iron gates to the palace grounds, the guards asked for her invitation, and she said, “Is not every eligible woman invited? You must let me through.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty sure all the iron mines are off to the west,” Denna mused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

An iron cauldron with three legs was boiling over the fire. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spit my iron blood in his face. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled up his trouser leg, and Adam saw the contraption of iron and leather and hard wood. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m still ironing out a few things,” my dad replied quietly. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was in the driver’s seat by the time I’d climbed down, and the car was rumbling down the dirt road when I leapt out from behind an iron tank. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They were close to the gate of the great house now, but it was locked fast, the iron doors reared full to their height and the stone lions grey and windbitten on either side. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He watched, curious, as they met at the big iron door of the small building; one of the boys turned the rusty wheel handle, grunting with the effort. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When he opens his hand, there is a little iron key in his palm. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The light fixed to the front of the train clicks on and off as the train hurtles past the school, squealing on iron rails. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We, too, had an iron balcony with a straight ladder suspended halfway to the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They hitched the spool to rusted iron hooks, then grabbed the crane cable and jumped aboard the spool as it descended, swaying and spinning to the lower deck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

High John danced between the iron monsters, tangling them up as they lunged at him and leaving them twisted in rusty knots, juicy targets for my hooks and uppercuts. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At the gate, they had to wait a few moments before Dolorous Edd Tollett appeared to slide back the bolts and swing open the iron bars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I care fully iron each garment until it’s smooth and crisp. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Every thirteen steps or so, they came to a landing and an iron door leading to the inner core of the building. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That be the punishment round these parts for runaway indentured gals. An iron collar with hooks on it.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinkie dropped the tire iron; it clattered down the front fender to the ground. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a four-foot-long iron bar that had a thick metal U welded on each end. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Now they fly to their iron cages in Annuvin,” he said. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

RiRi, in one shiny pink boot dropping off the edge of the rock, held to the body of her would-be kidnapper by the iron bar of his arm. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I imagined Nancy descending a long iron staircase into the netherworld, and a man who waited for her at the bottom. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents must have been captured, once, held in iron cages above seething fire pits while their enemies gibbered around them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

What most caught Miss Hill’s attention was the fact that the furniture wagon was empty save for an iron stove that seemed much too large for a private residence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Unless one of those long iron scorpion bolts chanced to find an eye, the queen’s pet monster was not like to be brought down by such toys. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The grownups ate from the skillet or black iron pot in which the food was cooked. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to the south lay 2,000 miles of country thinly occupied by Khoisan hunter-gatherers, lacking iron and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The floor is slick with spills, forcing us to walk through the kitchen with tiny steps, like Susan McDougal in leg irons. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her big long breasts lay flat on her chest like they’d been pressed down with an iron, but she did seem heedless of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have danced a jig and said, “Less shirts for me to wash, wring out, starch, and iron.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The boy could hear iron doors opening and closing. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My armor is made of sky iron, made for me. A bear’ s armor is his soul, just as your daemon is your soul. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, I could hear their muffled grunts, and then the intake of a sharp, deep breath before they knocked each other to the floor, taking Mamá’s ironing board with them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mama came in with a basket of freshly ironed and folded handkerchiefs and put them on the table by the door. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She don’t tell me to iron her pillowcases. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The iron symbol atop the tallest steeple was a two-pronged fork. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

‘You ought not to stand around like this. Go on upstairs and throw me down your clothes. Louis will run over them with a hot iron.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My clothes for the day were ironed and folded, left on the cane-seat chair in the foyer where Hassan usually did his ironing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody could have climbed it without a ladder, even with irons. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you can really play Seek the Stone, then you are developing an iron- hard Alar of the sort you need for sympathy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She raised her arm and flung the iron bar straight at its he ad. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He takes it to a blacksmith and has him put iron corners on the frame, and iron spikes on the legs so he can stand it up outside next to his easel. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You are the dead,” said an iron voice behind them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Touch the iron of my hammer then,” said Rengen, for he knew all demons feared two things, cold iron and clean fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Behind him stood a collection of ruined emblems, tattered banners, and a large golden eagle on a staff of iron. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Runners had just returned and entered the mysterious Map Room, clanging the iron door shut; Minho had already gone in earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Reaching the edge of the still-hot iron curls, Bailey stands on his toes to peer inside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The kids who wanted to be kids instead of washing dishes and ironing their papa’s shirts, and the husband who wanted a wife again. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the sheets off the clothesline and brought them inside for ironing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Annie and I sat on an iron bench facing the lake and exchanged schedules. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When Billy Pilgrim’s name was inscribed in the ledger of the prison camp, he was given a number, too, and an iron dogtag in which that number was stamped. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig iron. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The upholstery of the iron seats was bristly, and Billy couldn’t sleep much. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to do more, wanted to give Master every reason to keep him, and so one morning he ironed Master’s socks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Following her gaze Alice lifted the iron and saw what Violet saw: the black and smoking ship burned clear through the yoke. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into her head came lines from an old poem: Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

William Wise had set up a workbench for him and had finished the tool of hardened iron. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Seasons of rain and snow had turned the iron gate rusty and left the cemetery’s low white stone walls in decay. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was tanned by the salt of the open air, his hair was short and straight like the mane of a mule, his jaws were of iron, and he wore a sad smile. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Chains rattled as die portcullis was drawn upward, and the great gates opened to the creak of iron hinges. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"The stallion who mounts the world has no need of iron chairs." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Asha felt iron scraping against bone as her point slid over a rib. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was an ornate gateway, with stone seats inside it, and while Mary and Serafina sat there, Will and Lyra climbed over the iron fence into the garden itself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the second pumping, a rush of warm water rusty with iron flushed out, but at the third it was cold and clear. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

His fingers locked around my neck like an iron collar. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Dad picked up a six-foot length of angle iron and handed me the end. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He sent her to St. Jude Hospital and put her in an iron lung to help her breathe. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

A door at the end of the hall leads to a spiraling iron staircase. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But it was the Bishop of Rochester who entered in a bustle, carrying packets and an iron lantern. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kehaar,” he said, “I want to be certain. Can we get to the rabbits’ town without bothering about the iron road and the river?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inmates slept on straw mattresses atop iron bed frames attached to the wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how they got their leg irons off, or where they went, or if they are safe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If there had been any irons aboard, they would have been occupied by the fumbling landlubber or scurvy swab who forgot his duties and made Dad miss the mooring. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fuming concoction sent swirls of steam up to the cave ceiling, where bats flapped their wings, clinging upside down from their claws, and pit vipers uncoiled themselves from thick iron hooks. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The next door was made of rusty iron. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With her fingers, she finds the lock; from her coat she pulls the iron key Hubert Bazin gave her a year before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wore a leather jerkin sewn with overlapping iron disks, and carried a dirk in one hand and an axe strapped to his back. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had a tested trust in iron bars. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our clothes were washed, ironed and packed, so for an immobile time we wore those things not good enough to glow under the California sun. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need the Weaver to close the tear in the sky. If he does, it will cut off the iron monsters’ power. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Within a quarter of an hour we came to Miss Havisham’s house, which was of old brick, and dismal, and had a great many iron bars to it. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not only for its galvanic properties, but because pieces of sky-iron like this often had rare metals mingled with the iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She pictures the black iron bars in the windows of her parents’ flat, and Gogol, in his American baby clothes and diapers, playing beneath the ceiling fan, on her parents’ four-poster bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the iron window bars, everything inside was quiet. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She tried to wriggle free, but his grasp was iron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But fresh torches burned in the iron sconces along the walls, and Jon had ordered benches and tables brought in. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Someone was pulling a cart; Mariam could hear the creaking of its hinges, the bouncing and rattling of its iron wheels. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It simmered now in the huge iron kettle, beneath which the fire must be kept glowing all through the long hot day. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Violet sat down on the wide steps nestling her bag of irons and oil and shampoo in the space behind her calves. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took some of the iron staples and hammered them so’s Syl’s parents couldn’t slip out. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Look, I did my best. We don’t all have maids to do our ironing.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Baachan owned an iron that you filled with hot coals from the stove. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Looking out across the water hazard that fronted the small flat green, a seven iron in his hand, calculating wind and distance, wondering if he should reach instead for an eight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One gloved hand still clutched the rusty iron longsword he had taken from the crypts below Winterfell, and from time to time he would lash out at a branch, knocking loose a spray of snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"We will speak no more of wooden horses and iron chairs." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Donna barges into the bedroom wearing only her fancy underwear and holding a basket filled with combs, curlers, a curling iron, a flat iron, a blow-dryer, pomades, hair lotions, and makeup. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Orc’s clawlike hand gripped Pippin’s arms like iron; the nails bit into him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Hisao had gotten a job in the laundry ironing and folding clothes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He and his ink laugh long and loud—then there’s silence...and then he begins pounding on the barrel of the cannon with an iron pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She crossed over the dry moat with its cruel iron spikes and made her way up the narrow turnpike stair, but when she reached the door of her bedchamber she could not bear to enter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It crackled and spat under the huge iron kettle. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered walls of pale red stone festooned with patches of nitre, a grey door of splintered wood, four inches thick and studded with iron. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I was just looking for a place to sleep,” he said quickly, his hand unconsciously clutching at the circle of iron that hung around his neck. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The windows of the room looked out on a wet garden with a wall topped by an iron fence. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Within, they found a pair of iron bars the size of saplings, with post holes in the ground and metal brackets on the gate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

First to make the ascent were the clan chiefs Flint and Nor- rey, clad in fur and iron. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old man has brought a canvas tool bag that holds caulking irons and a big wooden mallet, and a coil of fluffy white cotton. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I said no more tonight. Did you not hear me? Do you think I am made of iron?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seema asked, returning from my parents’ bedroom with the iron and narrow metal board. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At regular intervals we ram in the iron stakes. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary delivered the message to the tavern keeper John Lloyd: “I want you to have those shooting irons ready; there will be parties here tonight who will call for them.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inner room, where Guenever slept had a window with iron bars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get your back against the wall,” he said abruptly, bringing his iron cudgel up with both hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We drove by redbrick buildings and white buildings, an army tank with a big white star painted on it, and long, iron cannons. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We look back at the black iron gate and the condos. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She smiled and glanced at the small wrought iron tables and chairs just outside the door. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As they opened the iron fence and stepped into his garden, Seven let out a gasp. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Barringer believed that the crater had been formed by a ten-million-ton meteor, heavily freighted with iron and nickel, and it was his confident expectation that he would make a fortune digging it out. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He paused there, hands on the wet iron railing, looking out across the black water while his dæmon wound herself round his legs, pretending to pester for attention but really watching every movement behind them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Encanis was held over the coals by the iron that bound and burned and bit at him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ghosts couldn’t cross the water to help him so he had to make his own way in a strange place, sometimes with an iron collar around his neck. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two guardsmen stood inside the doors, clad in black cloaks and iron halfhelms, spears in their hands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he turned and walked past the nest, grabbed the iron bow, and backed down to the bridge floor. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Made-up stories don’t interest her unless they contain a lot of real things: toasters, ironing boards, the wardrobes of movie stars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But you could feel Tam when you came near to him—you could feel strength and warmth and an iron integrity. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was returning: of course my heart thumped with impatience against the iron rails I leant upon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The voice was that of a jaunty young Alpha, who had entered earning a black iron cash-box. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

His yellow bike is usually chained to the iron gate, but it’s gone—he’s at work. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jon Snow raised his hand and lowered it, and his black ranks parted right and left, clearing a path to the Wall, where Dolorous Edd Tollett pushed open the iron gate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then there was a long quiet spell that was split in the middle by the loud clank of an iron door banging shut. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not worn and familiar like all the shirts I’d starched and ironed for him. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Stygian iron blade seemed to make the shadows even gloomier, as if the infernal metal was drawing the light and heat out of the air. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The iron ponies replaced horses as transportation, and I'd love nothing more than to see a horse up close. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The sky god fought with the fury of exploding stars, and, as a lone god, he was targeted by most of the iron monsters. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Before she could speak, the man said, “Though we’d prefer to put irons on them.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After several minutes and a final, prolonged shriek, the great iron beast shudders to a stop and exhales. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Very slowly, with a loud creaking of rusty hinges, the great iron gates of the factory began to swing open. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had got bored and had almost finished ironing my shirt when suddenly I heard Francis’s voice rise, with a hysterical edge. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The woman reached down with both hands and wiggled the iron ’round her ankle then looked at me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Adam began to feel a warm admiration for her iron gallantry. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were everywhere—the dark glasses, the ironed pants, the pomaded hair. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building across from ours was three stories high, crisscrossed by iron stairs with narrow landings on which people grew tomatoes and geraniums in clay pots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The alchemist lighted the fire, and the monk brought him some lead, which the alchemist placed in an iron pan. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to sit up, and realized he was holding me against the side of his body in an iron grasp. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Here comes the Lord of the Sun and Moon, the Lion that prowls by Night!” they sang to the sounds of hand pianos, iron bells and the shell anklets of the dancers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Amari asked quietly, touching her neck, which still held the scars from her own iron chains. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty meters to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls; from her pocket she pulls Hubert Bazin’s iron key. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The iron gateway blazed its five stars above the gleaming T. As we passed, our young soldier passenger saluted, though no guards were in sight. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the same iron bedstead, and the quilt was multicolored, faded but still cheerful with reds and blues and greens and yellows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We demanded to have our leg irons removed, and with the support of the dentist, our guards took them off. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby peeked over the big toe and sucked her teeth at the sight of the defeated iron monsters. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You want me to plant some iron monsters?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was as if someone had ironed out all the rest of South Dakota and smooshed all the hills and valleys and rocks into this spot. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

All the mansions in that neighborhood had iron grilles on the windows. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Two sailors swing down into the ’tween deck, and there is the clanking of chains as they unlock Captain Smith’s irons. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I helped iron but burnt a hole on Mrs. McGarrity’s drawers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The last one was so tiny the bars crimped my fur like a waffle iron.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

So hostile did Granny and Aunt Addie become that they ordered me to wash and iron my own clothes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only around the eyes where the tip of the iron couldn't get to were there wrinkles—from smiles. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The only similarity between the rest of the town and the church is the small windows covered with iron bars, but the shambler proofing is barely noticeable on such an impressive building. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Above the dark gray iron, stone walls formed the North Tower. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I poked around the foundations, hoping to uncover some old iron implements that I could use. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then Kin reworked it and added an embedded iron design: a little goat on the right side. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Try no tricks, dark one. Speak no lies,” Tehlu said sternly, his eyes as dark and hard as the iron of the wheel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While ten men worked the bellows, Tehlu forged the great iron wheel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bound and flanked by the iron arms of a soldier, she wasn’t used to the jerking motion of a galloping horse, and now that they had stopped, she felt her arms and legs tremble. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The handle which lifted the latch of the door, a piece of wrought iron shaped like a horse-shoe, was moving softly to the left It moved like a crab, uncertainly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was blocked by a row of iron bars like a prison door. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He tonged the iron to more advantageous heat, and he laughed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Francie talked and talked until the genial little boy fell asleep sitting upright on the steps with his head against the iron rail. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed to her bed and ignored him as she ironed her shirts. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

At last a pair of heavy iron doors rose before them, rust-eaten and forbidding, closed with a length of chain whose every link was as thick around as a man’s arm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The varnish around the drab began to bubble and char in a black ring around the piece of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You’d first build a shanty on your plot, a makeshift structure of plywood and corrugated iron. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They hurried to tighten the chains and fasten them securely to iron pegs, which they forced deep into the ground with their wands. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They would pick up the “shooting irons” Mary Surratt had ordered Mr. Lloyd to get ready that afternoon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

During Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, however, the iron curtain of segregation fell on federal employment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Each storeroom had a solid oaken door closed with an iron padlock as big as a supper plate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She slowly taught us to iron, wash clothes, and take care of the house by dusting, sweeping floors, and watering the more than one hundred indoor plants she kept. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We throw rocks in the river and we swing on the iron chains along the bank. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A wide wrought iron gate that had every manner of doodads welded right into it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then he assigned his wife her part: next day she brought his bow and iron axeheads out to make a contest. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards forced James Stockdale’s badly healed broken leg into irons and left him until his limbs turned blue. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When Sophie Mol’s plane appeared in the skyblue Bombay- Cochin sky, the crowd pushed against the iron railing to see more of everything. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cars disappeared into the distance, overshooting as she skimmed the iron vein. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The kindly man took the iron lantern off its hook and led her past the still black pool and the rows of dark and silent gods, to the steps at the rear of the temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps if we went and touched her with the iron?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

High leather boots with steel shinguards gave some protection to his legs, and discs of black iron were sewn into the fingers of his gloves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

An iron fence surrounded it, topped with sharp spikes, sharp as needles. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Massa brung him back after a few days, and he put a iron collar round the boy’s neck so folks would know he was a runaway and not free to be on the roads.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though of noble bearing, he wore the garb of an ordinary warrior, with no ornament save a curiously shaped iron brooch at his collar. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The batter was all mixed up and in the iron skillet when Mama came in, her eyes looking red and tired. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even the girls, Rita and Agnes and Lydia and Ida and June, were caught and put in heavy chains of iron. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wood was a dark charcoal color with a black grain, heavy as a sheet of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Come,” he said, and led me to a narrow stairway made of wrought iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Tehlu struck the fourth, there was the sound of quenching iron and the smell of burning leather. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He wet one finger and lifted an iron from the rack on the stove, where it had been heating. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know any kind of glue that you can stick cloth to iron?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

New World societies had just begun making bronze artifacts and had not yet started making iron ones at the time when the arrival of Europeans truncated the New World’s independent trajectory. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The woman reached down and held on to her ankle where the iron band was. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“They also debased their currency, undercut the universality of the iron law, and antagonized the Adem.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Phoebe pulled a blouse out of the closet, she said she could see her mother standing at the ironing board smoothing the blouse with her hand. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

A church bell tolling once, the sound hard as iron in the cold air. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I felt in my brief case, feeling papers, shattered iron, coins, my fingers closing over Tarp's leg chain, and I slipped it over my knuckles, trying to think. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Big Top Mall, no one bothers with iron shackles. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He gripped her other arm with fingers that felt like iron. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A long rod of iron rested on his shoulder as he held the door open for Carter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Malcolm said no more, but swept up the shavings and the sawdust and tipped them into the bin next to the offcuts, from which Mr. Taphouse would feed the old iron stove the next day. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After the clothes are folded back into suitcases, the hair ribbons and shirts washed and ironed . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tyrion hopped down off his chair with a rattle of iron. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If not for the wheel’s windows and iron grates, however, its record might have been different. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I never have any fever. My legs are full of old iron too.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I manage to make my way to the barrier fence without discovery, and Red Jack is there, leaning against the tall wrought iron and looking like he hasn’t a care in the world. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There were two worn iron beds, four chairs, an old dresser, and a drop- leaf table on which they ate. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The iron was contorting, twisting itself out of the abstract curls and coils into a frightening face, which spoke in a clanging, echoing voice: “State your purpose!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

None of the Good People can bear the closeness of iron. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama puttered around doing whatever she usually did on Sundays: preparing her lesson plans, ironing a few shirts, running lots of water in the bathroom for some reason. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They carried swords and ash spears tipped with iron. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then on Magazine Street, I paid forty-five dollars to have my hair lightened and trimmed and ironed straight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Including reading magazines that might have iron staples rather than glue binding their pages, not caring if her fingers get singed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He convinced the Tlingit, who then visited the ships and exchanged their furs for many strange articles, chiefly iron. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, there’s a vein of iron about half a kilometer that way. But nothing between here and there.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The stag horns turned to crimson streaks, the skull mask ran like molten iron. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Wrestling wildly with the stout bars and bolts, he managed somehow to open the small iron door. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of pounds of denatured iron that alchemists would have fought over The mayor nodded eagerly and singsonged, “Dig a pit that’s ten by two. Ash and elm and rowan too.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His Stygian iron sword lay by his side, next to Hazel’s spatha. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There was an iron staircase with iron doors at the top and bottom. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy swung the iron rod again, striking the mercenary squarely in the ribs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Octavian slid his iron dagger from his belt and threw it at the table, where it impaled a map of Camp Half-Blood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On its front end a half circle of lights glowed, giving feedback from the board’s metal detector, which constantly searched ahead to see if there was enough iron in the ground to stay aloft. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but still, there must be some iron and steel we could recover. Stuff that wasn’t so scarce when they gave up.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s got a bloody great iron grating across it.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She heard the scrape of iron against leather as he drew another arrow from his quiver. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Tonight the wood filled the room with the almost imperceptible aroma of citrus and quenching iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ring was just an ordinary iron ring tied to a kind of gallows by a thread. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Xi don't like iron, Fin had told her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As the junta continued to rule with an iron fist, Farmer became increasingly frustrated and angry. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She wants a Birth Day, here, with guests and food and presents, she wants a little child to spoil in the kitchen, to iron clothes for, to slip cookies into when no one’s watching. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama put aside the clothes that needed to be ironed. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

From outside came the clang of horseshoes on the iron stake, and then a little chorus of cries. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is covered with clean snow-white linen, that even has got the marks of the iron still on it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after a hard winter that had frequently forced me to pay for a warm spot to sleep, my hoard was over twenty iron pennies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Italians first discovered that it could communicate this virtue to steel or iron. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were at our blockhouse, tearing it apart, board by board, using tire irons. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed himself up against the pillows and felt the iron bed frame against his back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her maids bore a basket full of axeheads, bronze and iron implements for the master’s game. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man who spent a lifetime devising iron bolts and locks understood the value of privacy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

No-nonsense nuns ruled classrooms with an iron hand, passing on to the youngest girls and boys the discipline and knowledge they would need to get ahead in a prejudiced world. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’d no more heart than a iron file, he was as cold as death, and he had the head of the Devil afore mentioned. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nine windows, three floors, big wooden door, black iron gate. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Before them was another of the iron doors, only this time it was topped by a camera that creaked as it swiveled to watch them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The air was split by the shriek of the heavy iron wheels, which threw spinning sparks over the rails as one car after another rattled past. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I will use my own needles, thank you very much. Good honest bone. None of your nasty jagged iron things, stabbing you like little slivers of hate.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was bulky and bolted to an iron workstation in the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Shame burns my hand like a hot iron branding me for all to see: Pa’s favorite child stole from the family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unopened for years, it bore an iron clasp that was rusty and worn. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Charles,” he snapped, “if you want this sister of yours to ever get a husband, you better teach her how to use an iron.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Robin could see the iron wheel under the window which turned like a windlass to let out the rope. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s the one my mom’s heavy crew used to pull sheet iron. Said he could lift four times what a man could.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And if it did, well, then at least I’d be diverting iron monsters from the Thicket. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

These Latin women, even when the bullets are flying and the bombs are falling, they want to make sure you have a full stomach, your shirt is ironed, your handkerchief is fresh. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Yet there was power in his stare, an iron ferocity that told Asha this man would never, ever turn back from his course. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her head hit an iron bolt on the floor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the lunar material, it is thought, came from the Earth’s crust, not its core, which is why the Moon has so little iron while we have a lot. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We lean towards him a little, iron filings to his magnet. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That it would turn without crushing its bearings and rotate smoothly and true were engineering hopes supported only by calculations that reflected known qualities of iron and steel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A huge stone door with iron bars slid open, and Amari was shoved inside a room with the rest of the women who had survived their journey. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Copy to here,” he said in a voice that was cold and motionless as iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The iron hisses and spews an angry cloud of steam. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lacking wood for the stove most of the time, she took to turning her electric iron upside down, plugging it into the one outlet, and cooking their stew on it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I grabbed an iron pot, stuffed it with all the dishrags and towels I could reach with one hand, laid the baby in it, and set it in the oven door. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But still, my hands hurt from gripping that iron. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the figure standing by the cauldron of curling iron is not Poppet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She stands at the ironing board, her tone easy because she is speaking to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were simply standing, confused, others panicked and ran to the church, hoping to find shelter in the tall stone building or the huge iron wheel that hung there, promising them safety from demons. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Snell having finished the cleaning and ironing was having her customary cup of tea before walking down the road to the bus stop. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The smells of cabbage, potatoes, and meat on top of burnt cornstarch, lavender, and metal from an afternoon of ironing saluted me when I walked inside Ma Charles’s house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They didn’t want to see that outhouse any more than I wanted to iron cotton sheets. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Vehicles lined the parking lot outside, and crossed iron bars secured the windows. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

How soon till his fire bums hot enough to crack stone and melt iron? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But something in their iron robot hearts will yearn to have lived and died as we did: on the hero’s errand.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

To begin with, our stove is an iron contraption with a firebox so immense a person could climb right in if they felt like it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think she just mixed up what you said. She’s always doing that. T. Ray will tell her, ‘Iron my two shirts,’ and she’ll iron the blue shirts.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind a scarred littered table a man with a fierce roach of iron gray hair peered at us over steel spectacles. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron portcullis that closed the Hunter's Gate had been warped so badly by heat it could not be raised more than a foot. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, Ash picked up the wooden bucket and went to the pump, where she lifted the cold iron handle, creaking, to release a flood of icy water. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a cowboy brought out an iron pipe instead of that old stick and started whaling away, the horse got a wild look in his eyes. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The handle fell back into place and there was a loud, iron knocking on the wood of the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d started out earning petty cash by ironing and rubber-banding wrinkled money from dice games, and then moved up in the organization. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Each step echoed against the iron ceiling and made him sound like a giant walking. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big square-cut gem that adorned his iron cuff glimmered redly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Cold and dead they were, and they hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun, and every hving creature with hot blood in its veins. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After lunch, I turn on Miss Christine on As the World Turns and do the ironing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My mother got up, fetched a plate from the rack, and filled it with stew from the iron pot on the fire. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alan-at-Gate directed the dropping of the heavy iron gate, and it came down so quickly that the last man to enter narrowly missed having his head chopped off. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

When I watched JimmyTrotter milk Sophie three years ago, he didn’t seem to like milking any more than I liked ironing white sheets in the heat. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A thick iron collar was visible about his neck, with three feet of broken chain dangling from it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But then there was a sound like quenching iron, and the wheel rung like an iron bell. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

All my joints go stiff, like they've been fused together with liquid iron. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Caleb was the first to bound up the steps and out into the light when Mr. Lucas undid the iron bar and together we heaved the root cellar doors open. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There’d be sawdust on the floor, cobwebs on the ceiling, and the smell of iron and machine oil everywhere. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mamá ironed while she listened to the Spanish radio station. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Earth itself is a very rich mixture of atoms, mostly silicon,' oxygen, aluminum, magnesium and iron. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an iron twig with two iron lovebirds perched upon it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of her, the monster of a building with iron bars. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if giant iron gates had crashed shut and bolted themselves. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The iron bucked, tossing me forward so both my feet left the ground. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Like women sitting for two hours under the marcelling irons only to wonder two days later how soon they would need another appointment. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Stretched across the top of the gates, hidden in curls of iron, more firefly-like lights flicker to life. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“And a robot,” added Powell, “is essentially iron.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Then, ignoring the burning across my back, I set my feet on the bench and loosened my clenched fingers from the iron ring. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

An iron pipe rammed into the pit of his stomach, turning his legs to rubber. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teenie showed them the stones that had been dug into the side of the fireplace where bread was baked and the iron grills where food was fried. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron latch rattled and the hinges creaked. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His body was like iron; she could find no softness in it. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When I arrived, Kilvin was in the process of bending a twisted length of iron rod into what I could only assume was a more desirable shape. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We continue down a road and finally reach a set of iron gates with an emblem on each gate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The memory of Fair Isle still rankled in the iron captain’s memory. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Three times their way was blocked by iron bars, and they had to stop while Bowen Marsh drew out his keys and unlocked the massive chains that secured them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But there were other ironing boards at my school. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even Jesse wore his one pair of corduroys and an ironed shirt. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Servants wheel in tiered trays bursting with skin-color pastilles and rouge pots, brushes and combs and barrel irons, tonics and creams, bei-powder bundles, waxes and perfumes, measuring rods and metal instruments, and sharpened kohl pencils. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the story of the five ages men are descended from the iron race. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he dropped the bit of iron into Orddu’s outstretched hand, it was as though a light flickered and died in his heart, and he nearly cried out with the anguish of it. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I fixed my eyes on a purple human liver that looked just like the cow liver Mom always served me because it was “filled with iron.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They had driven through heavy iron gates into an open area inside a compound of buildings. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kino had wondered often at the iron in his patient, fragile wife. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A frozen banana tree, brow'n and stricken, languished against the front of the porch, the tree preparing to collapse as the iron fence had done long ago. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the Cyclopes held huge lengths of black iron chains—big enough to anchor a battleship—with grappling hooks at the ends. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Across the pool stood a brick wall twelve feet high, with iron spikes along its top. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a ladder made of iron whose slick rungs were coated with ice that gleamed like neon in the circling blades of yellow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Coldhands was the name that the fat boy Sam had given him, for though the ranger’s face was pale, his hands were black and hard as iron, and cold as iron too. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For example, Stone Age farmers did not proceed directly to extracting and working iron, which requires high-temperature furnaces. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They have solid surfaces, interiors made of rock and iron, and atmospheres ranging from near-vacuum to pressures ninety times higher than the Earth’s. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, I had to drag the iron monsters away from Miss Rose and get the others to abandon the ambush. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I thought the idea that the Xi don’t like iron was only an old wives’ tale. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The men were then separated from the women, and Amari’s neck irons and leg irons were finally removed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jail has several holding cells, rooms with concrete benches and iron doors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The waiters came out of the kitchen with meat cleavers, toasting forks, iron pots and frying pans to arm everyone. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

So the only thing Kat and I both remember is the part about the ironing board. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had no intention of doing that. I forgot that 1 was wearing iron shoes. Who will believe that I did not do this on purpose?” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

My legs feel like they’re made out of iron or lead or whatever’s heavier that I’m sure I was supposed to learn at some point this year. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She wrapped up his ironed apron carefully in a piece of clean paper saved for that purpose. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a great bare barn of a building with a corrugated iron roof and was considered the only public building large enough to support a trial of so many accused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t iron sheets at home. Not even Pa’s shirts.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

But the arms, shoulders and heads would be those of villeins, and the blows which rang, without removing many limbs, would be exchanged by the iron nobility. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of iron flew out from a machine and sliced his forehead. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He gathered that Campion had been out as far as the iron road but had found nothing unusual. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the tiny box, lifted out the grid with tweezers, and fitted it into a steel rod the size of a tire iron—the sample holder, it was called. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the sun bearing down like a branding iron, the market was crowded that day and sales had been strong—it was only 12:30 but we’d already made $160. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My hand plunged into the pile of iron, and I could feel a sharp edge slice into my wrist. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Cold iron and splintery wood closed off the only holes through the piled stones that hemmed them in. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The uniform, like all uniforms, eroded identity, and the daily attention required—ironing pleats, pinning hats, straightening seams, shoe polishing, especially the heels—began a process by which other concerns were slowly excluded. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The fire was so intense that piles of pig iron melted like wax left in the sun, granite blocks split in two, and limestone and marble turned to powder and blew away. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sarah and the other soldierwives spent most of their days down at the campground doing the chores for the regiment-washing clothes in big iron pots and cooking whatever could be found to roast or stew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the one who ironed Babi’s shirts and folded his pants. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Amah led a large iron pot, rolled in on a rough wood platform by two of Da-A-Fu’s uncles, in front of the dragon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Never around Grandma because she’d make them scrub floors, and iron drapes, and weed the garden until they were too exhausted to scuffle. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cattle grazed in thick grass that rippled about their legs, and goats with fat udders wandered with clanking iron bells tied about their necks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the canned spray starch that Mrs. preferred when she did iron, I made the starch in a bowl, the way Big Ma had taught me when we first drove down south. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, she has my wrist in an iron grip. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They tell of an older woman who welcomed a migrant into her home and was beaten to death with an iron pipe. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Dance? I don’t feel like dancing with 110 old man. Besides, my feet swole up this afternoon while I was ironing them uniforms.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gaze was again drawn to the objects on the shelves: A rusty iron key. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I spray them with good-smelling water she keeps in her laundry room before I set the iron to them. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The scarred woman sat down heavily and looked at her empty hands, her bell-shaped figure an iron shadow in the light of the lantern. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She curved my fingers around the handle, pressing the iron against the fabric while with the other hand she pulled the cloth taut. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Standing in the center of the cobbled road inside the iron gate is a giant. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The capitalism that bloomed in the cities and small towns of North Korea weakened the government’s iron grip on everyday life and did little to enrich the state. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When the iron bar struck him, the mercenary’s smile fell away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Last of all he removed the simple iron wheel from around his neck and laid it on the nightstand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some said the plate was made of iron and painted to resemble cracked china. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun felt like a hot piece of iron pressing down on his head. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Slender iron rods just two and a half inches thick and eighty feet long linked the rim, or felloe, of each wheel to a “spider” affixed to the axle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, exactly. But, actually, boards prefer iron. All that glitters is not hovery.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She goes into the living room and turns on a table lamp and begins to attack the curtains with the hot iron. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Below my feet was an explosion of stone as the great iron wheel tore free from the church wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I brought in a small tire iron and it came off easily. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The waves banged out every possible note known to iron and air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They were banded together at one end by an iron chain as thick as my leg, or as thick as my leg was before I got onto the boat two weeks earlier. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their great hinges and iron bars were wrenched and bent; many of their timbers were cracked. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Armed with iron bars and sledges, the companions hurried back to the cottage and, while the enchantresses looked on curiously, Taran raised his hammer. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she might have an iron deficiency anemia: tired blood. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His short flight across the junkyard ended with a bone-shattering crash as the crane deposited the car on the iron shelves of the crusher. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He came to a tangle of iron and wire: some sort of machine, long ago buried and forgotten. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

If she had had little bound feet, the toes twisted under the balls, I would have jumped up and landed on them—crunch!—stomped on them with my iron shoes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Biter was flinging himself against the chains, blood running down his arms from where the irons clasped his wrists. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He put his hand to his throat and undid the iron clasp at the collar of his jacket. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Flakes of rust fell from the creaking iron frame. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The bed was made, the clothes that hung on a post were ironed, the shoes were properly lined on a rack, and the brown tile floor was shiny. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The ziggurat's iron frame became supercharged as the bolts hit it again and again. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was standing so near that she could see the fine thread detail on his jacket, and smelled not perfume, but horses and iron. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Carbon monoxide plus iron gives the volatile iron carbonyl.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

My mother had been ironing one of her work uniforms and was still holding the hot iron. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We began to sort the debris into piles—aluminum, iron, steel, copper—so it could be sold. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was no resisting the iron strength of his hands. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He turned and went back indoors so the smoke would not soak into his carefully ironed shirt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

One passage had thick iron bars driven deep into the surrounding stone, blocking the way. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She spent her days embroidering infants’ dresses, knitting woolen booties, decorating little baskets, arranging the stacks of tiny blouses, bibs, and diapers, and ironing the sheets she had embroidered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cauldron wasn’t made of iron or steel...it was made of vapors. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A piece of a thick mast served as a head, with crooked eyes made of rusted iron spars. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Grinning, I handed her the lump of black iron I’d got from the tinker. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

David had never been any closer to the city than the ruins, so Tally took the lead for once, following the vein of iron that Shay had shown her months before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Something within the twisted iron cauldron begins to spark. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just then white steam that smelled like iron started pouring out from the sides of the hood and blowing past the windows. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another row showcased iron cuffs so thick that no saw could bite them, and cuffs so thin that only the thought of punishment prevented their wearer from splitting them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Kaz managed to endure it all the way past the iron railings of Zentzbridge, the grating covered in little bits of rope tied in elaborate knots, sailors’ prayers for safe return from sea. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Samuel was asleep in his chair, dreaming that he had gripped a red-hot bar of iron and could not let go. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ground fell away beneath him, the cage swung, and Tyrion wrapped his hands around the iron bars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the kitchen the next morning, Seema was ironing. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Several of the vendors were frying chunks of fish with onions and beets, or selling peppery fish stew out of small iron kettles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A fire was lit in a giant iron cauldron, and the certificates of 2,300 Indians were tossed into the flames—the first major act of Satyagraha. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was an unusually hot day that spring, and Luke and I spent it hauling purlins—the iron beams that run horizontally along the length of a roof. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"That bauble around your neck—was it bought with gold or iron?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She made her way back to the place where she had begun, and she set down the iron bowl, pressing it into the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A year later, heavy crews cut open a section of iron and the little licebiter’s mummified body had popped out like a pill from a blister pack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Anemia, I guess. That means I need more iron and have to eat liver. I have to stay in bed all day tomorrow. You and Sam have to go with Mom again.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stuttering the name of God, Mother walked to the green iron door, its two sides sealed at the center with a large locked bolt. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Charlie glanced back over his shoulder and saw the great iron entrance gates slowly closing behind him. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Within a few days I was equipped with several sharp iron stakes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even the devil wears clean underpants,” she said, pointing the threatening tip of the hot iron at my skimpy towel. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Inside the tower was a corroded iron spiral staircase. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sword appeared in the giant’s hand—a Stygian iron blade much like Nico’s, except five times the size. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A group of guys on a patch of lawn with an iron panther statue at its center. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Other times she would have to send away a particularly bothersome spirit with the threat of iron and salt, but those times were rare. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The iron plating was now so hot it steamed. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The guard began to laugh again and threw the scrap of iron over the fence. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Used to sing too, over the hissing of the iron, sang old Hazara songs about tulip fields. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve seen this hole in the sky. If it is indeed fueling the violent energy that is coursing through these ‘iron monsters,’ we would do well to continue as we have been recently. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Long hallways, with iron bars from floor to ceiling, ran from the door into the dim center of the building. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here fresh oysters could be bought, here iron chains and manacles, here cyvasse pieces carved of ivory and jade. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They feed iron ore into the Blast Oven and pour molten steel into core molds from ladles. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The thought came unbidden, seizing him with iron teeth, but this was not a woman he cared to be indebted to, not even for his little sister. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

O dark, musty platoon huts, with the iron bedsteads, the chequered bedding, the lockers and the stools! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you walk closer, you can see that it sits in a wide black iron cauldron, balanced on a number of clawed feet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

On the walls to either side of the stove and within reaching distance were ironing boards that folded down from the wall itself. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had lost some magical powers in our world, she had not lost her strength; she could break an iron bar as if it were a stick of barley-sugar. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

When I came to my cabin after trying to help Charley in his travail, Robbie was tying a trouble light to the iron frame of my sad bed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahnighito is thirty-four tons of iron and is the largest meteorite on display in any museum. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

On each side of the columns, a pair of shackles hung from heavy iron chains at varying heights. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rose had said that the salt and iron would keep a ghost from possessing her, but she hadn’t said anything about their ability to turn a body’s blood to ice. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then, spotting Harry and Ron: “Good even, my fine young yeomen! Come clap this loon in irons. He is trying to force entry to the chambers within!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Electrons determine the chemical properties of the atom—the glitter of gold, the cold feel of iron, the crystal structure of the carbon diamond. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who sends an arrow through iron axe-helve sockets, twelve in line? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When Anansi gave us the Box, you hadn’t even punched the sky open yet. The iron monsters were still scattered and weak.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We are very modern—our bathroom is equipped with amenities such as a flushing toilet, an iron bathtub, and running water. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished I could iron it all between sheets of wax paper like I’d done with the bright red maple leaf I’d mailed to Dad. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Made of cast iron, the plowshare was shaped like a V, with the blade carving into the ground and the two arms arcing away like gull wings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Ironing and sweating when you don’t have to be ironing and sweating is oppression. And I won’t be oppressed.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Past an iron tub of empty bottles floating in soapbubbled water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spun and locked her arms around him like a chain of iron. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She was ironing and she paused and looked at me with tears in her eyes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes you have to know when to stand up and when to iron.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The rain patters in a hollow echo against the metal, drops evaporating into steam where the iron is still hot. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She peers through the black iron bars on the door and points. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

You can just see a little iron ring that must be a handle. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The red-faced man took a big iron key on a ring as big around as the boy’s head and unlocked one of the iron gates. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The route there from the Smoke twisted in all directions, taking advantage of veins of iron, rivers, and dry creek beds, but they’d never had to leave their boards. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The cemetery had a regal iron gate wrapped around it and took up the entire block. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“So. You have lost the tiger,” said Caesar in a voice of iron. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then she lined heavy soot- encrusted iron skillets with the pineapple rings for rich upside-down cakes. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The holding cells looked much more like the prison he had anticipated—no white stone or glass displays, just dank gray rock and iron bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Spencer wore a pair of stiffly starched and ironed overalls—probably pretty uncomfortable. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His thumbnail twanged the flat iron keys of the instrument, and the sound resonated inside the calabash on his knees. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I shouted, then belted the iron monsters clear off the ramp. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We walked past the rows of brick structures with corrugated iron roofs to a big grey building in the back of the compound. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, “The average human body contains enough iron to make a one-inch nail.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She loved him with the strength of iron. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The color scheme is cinder block and corrugated iron, gray and dark gray, punctuated by bright splashes of color. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"A great pity. I'd like to see you all in iron." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"You blush red as a maid, Theon. A question was asked. Is it the gold price you paid, or the iron?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I planted my feet on the waffle iron of the footrest while he swiveled me back and forth before the flashing mirrors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On the station platform I walk as close to the railings as I can, my fingers trailing against the iron fence, just in case I need to hold on tight. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like pieces of an iron chain,” he said grimly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I put on my waitress uniform, the short, tight cream-colored dress and the ironed brown apron. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Our cots were made of iron pipes welded together, about as heavy as you’d think a bed could be. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom unlocked the lobby door, which is iron and glass and must weigh three hundred pounds, and she pushed hard to swing it open, her heels slipping on the tile floor. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Joseph found his uncle in an ancient kitchen, tossing a few pieces of charcoal into an iron stove. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mom plans meals weeks ahead; she irons the shirt she needs next Tuesday last Wednesday. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You’ll do the ironing at night after the girls go to bed, and in the mornings I’ll get everything organized for dinner.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He looked around for his iron staff, which was still back at Hubbard Glacier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then they’d forcibly remove people from illegally occupying some white area and drop them off in the middle of nowhere with some pallets of plywood and corrugated iron. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The door was oak and iron, and his keepers kept it barred. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the next drawer was a stack of baby clothes, ironed and done up nice, like for the next birthing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t seen where he’d put the key to her irons, and the six guards who trailed them would be nuisances. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Slag looks like pieces of porous rock but actually is the cinders left over when iron ore is melted down to make steel. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The manacles were black iron, thick and heavy, each weighing a good two pounds, if the dwarf was any judge. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Yes, yes. Your mother wants me to tell you that she’s now taking in some sewing and ironing. She’s a working woman! Here, hold on, she wants to speak to you." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Around back, above the garden, was a twisted iron balcony, and the windows above were lighted. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt as if an iron hand had gripped his heart and was pulling it out between his ribs, so that he pressed his hands to the place and vainly tried to hold it in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most of the cages were patches of dirt surrounded by iron bars, with forlorn gorillas or restless bears or irritable monkeys or anxious gazelles huddled in the corners. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered Fin handing the iron dagger to her, hilt first. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Being so still, so portly in his iron sheath, and having the great blind helm over his head so that he had no proper face, he had a look of danger about him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All through the riots people had tried to break in, but the concrete walls and thick iron doors had refused to yield. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hole looked like the separator’s mouth, and it had long, iron teeth. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last night the carpenter came again to put some sheets of iron over the door panels. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A very bright full moon was shining in the sky and by its light Michael examined the iron grating and looked through the bars. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The girls napped on running boards, or dipped to get a tire iron out of the trunk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The man stepped back and pulled the iron away. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I settled myself on a length of iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“But don’t ask me to iron your tunic anymore.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I hang up and cradle my head in my arms and bawl all over the freshly ironed tablecloth. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside it was a door, banded in iron and bolted shut. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The board’s metal-detector fights flickered out one by one as Tally left the splintered end of the iron bridge behind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Are their legs made of iron, so they don’t feel the cold?” asked my mother. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He called for iron, and people brought all they owned. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And behind it, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker lay ironed out upon the grass as flat and thin and lifeless as a couple of paper dolls cut out of a picture book. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He shook the needle in his hand, and it grew into an iron walking stick. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I remembered reaching out a hand to steady myself and finding the strong iron bands on a wagon’s wheel rusted away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A mighty cheer and a laugh: a club made of knotted thornbush wood studded with sharp iron nails was swung by Thor into Balder’s face. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then he was less than ten feet away from her, and before she could think she pulled out the iron dagger and hurled it squarely into his throat. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The iron tip was shaped like the nose cone of a rocket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The book was leather-bound with iron hinges, and large enough to eat your supper off. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The face itself had been spared: it was uniformly brown, the brown skin so smooth that it looked as if it'd been ironed with a hot iron. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Lords and knights moved aside as he stepped through, tall and fleshless, a skeleton in iron mail, the King's Justice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And there it was, the hum of the public, people whooping and celebrating outside the iron gates. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

From above, through the iron grilles that open onto the streets, he had heard the thrumming of the rubber tires of automobiles, and the hooting of their horns, and the howling of their brakes. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not own an iron and this way, if she was careful, she could wear the same uniform for a week or more before she had to brave the Laundromat. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you ever go beyond the iron road?” he asked. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did Marajo escape, even temporarily, the iron grasp of its environment? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Always iron the inside button and hole plackets first, then the inside and outside collar, then the cuffs.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Something flying low was peppering the runway with machine gun tire; even buried mostly underground, even a quarter of a mile away, the shelter’s iron walls shuddered. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I meant to simply walk by again and I thought I had, except suddenly I was standing at the edge of the Taheris’ white tablecloth, staring at Soraya across curling irons and old neckties. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Early next day Ma put the shelled corn and the bag of ashes into the big iron kettle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cells were different, too, with doors of solid steel instead of iron bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I've been in trouble before, but somehow the gun pointed at my back and the heavy irons on my wrists make me think that this is much worse than stealing a pie from the kitchens. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Around and around they stirred the corn in an iron kettle over a low fire. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He leads us past dainty tables, like white iron lace, each holding a small vase of carnations. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clamped Tendai in an iron grip before he could bolt. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“On Randall, when they want you in irons, they put you in irons.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Near that, maybe twenty feet to the south, stood a squat building made of rough concrete blocks, a menacing iron door its only entrance—there were no windows. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

An iron knocker hung on the front door, a squinting goblin with a ring in its mouth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He had heard the rumble of subway trains and the shriek their iron wheels make when they go around a corner. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of the usual display of gold-embossed spellbooks the size of paving slabs, there was a large iron cage behind the glass that held about a hundred copies of The Monster Book of Monsters. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The railings were a delicate tangle of iron grapevines and creatures. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tower was made of wood and housed a large iron smokestack, which vented three boilers located in the main building below. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the black iron fetter about his wrist, the ruby seemed to pulse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He lets out a hiss of pain that makes me recall my knife is cold iron. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Cliques of girls sit at round tables with white tablecloths, the same ones my mother ironed in our living room last night. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On Monday, the day I'm supposed to talk to the detectives, I'm crying out of nowhere, hunched over my bed as the iron in my hand spits out steam. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The iron wasn’t being cut so much as snapped. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The irons made me weak Supper found her so exhausted that she fell asleep at the table. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Yayoi iron tools were initially imported from Korea in enormous quantities, until domestic Japanese iron smelting and production began after several centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sank, seeing only blue sky, waiting to feel either the stab of sharp iron or the jolt of solid earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The next day, around three in the afternoon, I was ironing a shirt in the kitchen when there was another knock at the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them all, Woolf stood like a titan in the irons. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron captain had no time to wait for laggards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tracery, all of which was cut from templates, was cemented into place along with iron reinforcing bars as the piers were being built. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

I entered the house and found my mother busy ironing my brother’s school pants. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner is a small iron stove. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen that Captain Smith’s ankles are raw from the rubbing of the irons. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If there was anything left of Rosa, it was locked in an iron box. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the iron gates shudder and unlock, seemingly by their own volition. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My head sticks out the end of the iron lung. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The streetlights were like moons cupped in iron fingers. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Other patrols had been sent out at once, but all that they had established was that the rabbits from the north had crossed the iron road and disappeared southward. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then a door slammed with the deep clash of iron on iron. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was in her room ironing a white shirt for me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She patted around the floor until she found her blanket, then she snuggled quickly in, for the cold had crept with iron stealthiness into the cabin. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Some iron, some steel—heavy crew would be the ones to deal with that. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It tells the story of a place that was working iron and steel so far back that it made cannonballs for the Union army. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A rustling of leaves, a silence, more rustling, more silence while Malcolm watched the man reach the little iron footbridge to the piazza and climb the steps. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Bernice started scooping sweet oats out of a big iron pot into bowls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The doors were solid bronze, closed with a heavy iron bar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That is, until she felt iron clamp around her arms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Across the street, leaning up against the iron railing, I saw three sweetbacks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

More men were knocked down by the iron bar. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that he was into ironing his slacks, as he would call them. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Amber takes a hot iron from its caddy. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The collars were made of iron, lightly gilded to make them glitter in the light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’s short, and oblong in shape, so that her iron- gray cardigan falls straight from shoulder to hip with no pause in between for a waist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was wall- to-wall carpeting in federal gold, except in the kitchen and bathroom areas and over the iron manhole cover in the center of the floor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He caught me up in his iron grip, crushing me to him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The giant iron monster opened its mouth wide—wider than a mouth should ever, ever open—and it bellowed, allowing a maelstrom of brand flies dripping with green venom to erupt from its mouth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“The weak points of every iron monster, schematics of every palace in every region of Alke—you name it, she can lay it out for you, no trouble at all.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Whenever he was out with others, he was properly buttoned up, his clothes clean and ironed within an inch of their lives—but not with me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I climb the iron stairs to the first one shabby enough to house working men and slide the door open so violently it bounces closed again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She might be mending or ironing but most likely she’d be sitting by the window embroidering. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boats large and small were tied up all around them, secured to iron rings set in the stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The hot iron hissed and when he raised it, he saw that half of the sock was glued to it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I suspected bad karma sneaking up on me with a nine iron. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The smooth blue of her chest was unpierced by the iron finial, and her hair was still studded with flowers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Now, she said, wooden and iron steps take its place. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All hemmed and ironed. My fingers are sore.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The engineers had built a stone fortress with an iron portcullis, guard towers, scorpion ballistae, water cannons, and no doubt many other nasty surprises for the defenders to use. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The captain lifted the iron knocker and let it fall with a thud that echoed in the pit of the girl’s stomach. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Thandiwe whistled, and the Ridge guards peeled away from the iron monster and fell into formation behind her, everyone lining up on the same rail. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I approached an iron block as big as a farmer’s cottage and broke off a single flake of rust large as a dinner plate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mariners are protected by geography and the vast amounts of spices, meat, and iron they trade. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looked at the little girl ironing away so quietly with her head bent over the board and he was stabbed by the soft sadness on the child’s thin face. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a very beautiful house but looked just as uninviting as the iron gate. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dad calmly put his hand between the iron bars of the cage and rested it on the cheetah’s neck. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Because we were working on a project for it together. Then the iron monsters attacked, and we fled our separate ways. I came back here, and Anansi disappeared, but the Story Box was left behind.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Watchmen were much in evidence, moving in pairs through the alleys in their gold cloaks and shirts of black ringmail, iron cudgels never far from their hands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The links were forged of every metal known to man: black iron and red gold, bright copper and dull lead, steel and tin and pale silver, brass and bronze and platinum. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Matt spent the night in the guardhouse, and in the morning Raul took him to a large, gray building with high windows covered with iron bars. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the third and final set of sliding iron gates, a large tiled room opened off to our right. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a balcony on the second floor that seems to have a rail of thick roots in place of iron. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But he did not long escape from pain; soon the iron grip of merciless hands was on him again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They were struggling on the slopes, pikes thrusting against another wall of shields, these oval and reinforced with iron studs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sweat trickled down his forehead and chest as he ironed with great enthusiasm, his right arm pushing the iron across the length of the shirt with such vigor that his breathing nearly duplicated Dr. Hyde’s. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“That scale is mostly iron, unless I miss my guess. How can I make that more dramatic than it already is?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We watched as he strode past Mama’s pots of pink begonias and Papa’s life-size iron stag and walked through the iron gate. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Only a few people stood in the wind on the top deck of the clanking iron ferry boat. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they stopped outside a heavy door of iron. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was almost close enough to touch the wheel when Biter lurched to his feet and grabbed for her, his irons clanking and rattling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We knock on all kinds of doors, iron, oak, plywood. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some of us load our shoulders with pointed and twisted iron stakes; others thrust smooth iron rods through rolls of wire and go off with them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee took the black iron pan from him and put it in the sink and ran water in it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lowered his right foot and pressed the toe of his sneaker against the well, then brought his right hand down to the next iron bar. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A second man stuck two branding irons into the metal basket to heat them up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wrought all of black iron, the wheel stood taller than a man. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wound itself was burned black as if the iron had scorched Elowen’s flesh, and Kaede had to swallow her nausea as she wiped the blade on the very edge of Elowen’s ermine cloak. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And he was prepared in other ways: Though nobody had told us to, he had brought along an iron and ironing board, even spray starch. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All over,” she replied as she sliced wild turnips into an iron kettle. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now, Joe, examining this iron with a smith’s eye, declared it to have been filed asunder some time ago. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did her love for the iron plate and Sam keep her from going to Chup, but so did a new feeling deep inside her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Its walls were made of thick iron sheets that reached eight feet from the bed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"They can keep their red castle and their iron chair as well." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then, in the morning, again by luck and the help of Kehaar, they had evidently just missed another at the crossing of the iron road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger looked at his dusty boots, at a twisted iron bar lying among the stones, anywhere but at the cat. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The patch of moonlight that slipped past the rusty iron bars on our window fell on the book that our teacher, Parvathi, had given me before she moved away. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She remembered, though, that when Uncle Kufa made training spears for boys, he didn’t waste precious iron. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did a quick count: two iron halfpennies, nine shims, and a drab. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I walked quickly down the hill to iron out the distortion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We've planted iron spikes under the water, y'see, and there's caltrops scattered among them rocks there. It's the same on all the fords, by your brother's command." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In her black skirt, ironed white shirt, and black apron, Mom is the happiest I’ve seen her in a very long time. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It was made of numerous isinglass windows with just enough thin carved iron to form a framework. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we were in an area of stately mansions, even the smallest of which was bigger than the regent’s palace, with grand front lawns and tall iron gates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of the powder and smoke bit in the air; the battle lay across my tongue already; I could taste its iron, and I wished to chew. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Dropping the iron I fished the anonymous note from beneath the pile and held it by a corner, so that the slanting sun shone through the page and outlined the scrawling letters. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At four hundred feet the wind had teeth, and tore at his black cloak so it slapped noisily at the iron bars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He stood in the irons and began pulling the horse up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the bar, the smith’s prentice finally retrieved his iron rod from under the table and stretched to his full height. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They made a grim display in their ring- mail, iron halfhelms, and black cloaks, with tall spears in their hands and swords and daggers on their belts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wore a blue gingham skirt I’d sewn myself and an ironed T-shirt, white as a bowl of whole milk. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Soon there would be noise and chores and a mountain of white sheets with my name on them to wash, hang dry, and iron. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Part of it was to be made of iron, then it was to be finished with padding and leather at the saddler’s. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to believe that this hunk of iron is from outer space. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The girls armed themselves with sticks and small rocks, curling irons and bottles of tanner. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Stout weight lifters hoisted enormous hunks of iron over their heads, quivering and swaying slightly beneath their loads. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His just- ironed shirt looks light blue, though it’s hard to tell in the dim light. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light flooded the room and revealed a black boy standing in a narrow space between two iron beds, rubbing his eyes with the backs of his hands. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bars of iron fell into place inside. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you can find the way to that iron road Holly told us about?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pepperhorn gestured to two of the Hill’s private security officers, who rushed over to put large iron cuffs on the Gran’s wrists. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You are the dead,” repeated the iron voice. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For an iron penny I could sleep on the floor at the Red Eye for the night, for two I could sleep on the hearth by the embers of the evening fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To the amazement of the others, Saruman turned again, and as if dragged against his will, he came slowly back to the iron rail, leaning on it, breathing hard. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On a visit there, Elizebeth was shocked to find an important collection of papers “scattered higgledy-piggledy over those iron shelves....I went home and told my husband. We sort of cried on each other's shoulders.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This entryway consisted of two massive black wooden doors, each one studded with iron bolts. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They pound the iron stake into the ground in a battery of perfectly timed strokes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The most revolutionary weapon used in the Civil War was the ironclad warship, a ship covered entirely in iron. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a ladder of iron bars that ran up a narrow concrete hole. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Now, with an iron weariness in his slight body, he lay and watched the sky color from one darkness to another. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no iron spearheads in the chest. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rural families typically made the radio their second electric purchase, after the clothes iron. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shawn bent unsteadily and lifted a piece of heavy iron, then heaved it toward the Shear. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Red ferried in more food, and two weeks later, we had piled up a treasure trove of cast iron almost as high as our tent. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When my eyes cleared I saw iron lanterns, clammy stone floors, flowers everywhere. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His skin didn’t feel like iron, but it would explain how he’d held out so long against the gorgons. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I know she’s right, so I start off for the black iron fence. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He hesitates, turning the tiny glass bottle with Widget’s version of his tree trapped inside over in his hand, but then he adds it as well, flinching as it shatters against the iron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was dusk and the red priest had lit his nightfire in the great iron brazier amidships as the crew gathered round to pray. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was so hard it could only be iron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The windows were boarded up, and the remnants of iron grillwork hung from the frames. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a wide leather seat, big enough for two little children, with a back to it and an iron steering bar leading to the small front wheel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was cherry red; his beard and hair the color of iron rust, braided with tufts of grass, leaves, and swamp flowers. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His scalp was bleeding thickly and felt as if a red-hot iron had been pressed against it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mazen is unrelenting, and something about the set of his shoulders and the iron in his eyes reminds me of my mother. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Pressure was put on him by a determined poet whose dreams were brass, cast iron, and rubber. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Fiver said the iron tree was harmless they believed him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took no chances, held back his impatience with an iron control. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Parrelli was out of uniform, but his clothes were perfectly ironed. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They come out early in the morning from their iron gates, go home for siesta, get their car washed maybe on Friday. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amah led a large iron pot, rolled in on a rough wood platform by two of Da-A-Fu’s uncles, in front of the dragon. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“But, as far as I can see, I may have to run from here to the iron tree without a check. There’s no cover.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They felt so feeble in his iron strength. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat down on two iron chairs, side by side but not too close together. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone’s yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear her panting now, her voice almost a wail of diffident yet iron determination: “I dont know what to do. I dont know what to do.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planet's famous red color is from iron oxide coating everything. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She twists a lock of my hair around the curling iron. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She watched him walk away, a thickly built man in khaki trousers and a short-sleeved shirt that looked crisp from ironing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She roams the house all the time in various states of undress, searching for a stray sock or ironing her scrubs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the fire and fury of the summer of 1940, Maddie sat in a tower of iron and concrete taking bearings over the telephone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Where the iron touched his skin it felt like knives and needles and nails, like the searing pain of frost, like the sting of a hundred biting flies. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

By contrast the northmen seemed hale and healthy, big ruddy men with beards as thick as bushes, clad in fur and iron. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On narrow shelves made of wood, hundreds of naked men and boys lay chained together, wrists, necks, and legs held tightly by iron shackles. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish we had it in bottles. Betty here could open you one with her teeth. She’s got teeth like an iron claw.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have my little knife with me, cold iron, tucked into one of the pockets of my skirt, and more salt than I reasonably need. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I smelled it in the wind, the iron in the blood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mop, I iron, I change diapers, but I don’t hear a word about it in Miss Leefolt’s house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She was learning also to overyeast the bread and weight the mugs, so that much of what she served was merely air or iron. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have an iron deficiency. Does that count?” offered Mini. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She runs a hand along the iron cauldron and most of the rainwater within it turns to steam, rising in a soft cloud that dissipates into the fog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The upper story is reached by climbing a circular iron staircase; at the top is Death Row. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her left, at the foot of the steps, stood two drum-shaped iron braziers, rusty brown, with wood heaped up in them: pale, freshly cut firewood, log upon log. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Below the tall monument were more headstones—those inside the black iron fence. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He traded the iron bed for a studio couch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He laid the strips of iron on the glowing coke. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Booth nor Herold paid attention to the black iron lock on the door as they passed through the doorway. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the night, on the far side of the fields, I heard the huffing of locomotives and the clack of iron wheels. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby rode her fetterling up to us, flipped off of it, then pummeled the iron monster with sap. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I opened our iron gate and we climbed the stairs to the landing. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then one day—a bright, soft morning with a whisper of rain in it—we got there to find the gates closed and guards posted along the iron railings that encircled the compound. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no guards, and no locks, save for the iron fence that hovered over the surface, raised just enough to allow trash to pass through. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She gasped as she watched an Ashanti grab her mother and try to put thick iron cuffs on her mother’s wrists. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set to work pumping a hand-bellows to increase the heat under the branding irons. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latch is heavy and black and looks to be made of iron. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

An iron finial had pierced through her breastbone, right in the center of her chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s the first he’s spoken since Miss Anderson clapped us in irons, and the expression on his face is murderous, like he’d love nothing more than to gut the mayor and Miss Preston. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My hands hit the thin iron rails, but the edge of the car hits me in the gut. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t notice? Look around. Those iron monsters seem to prefer us older kids for some reason. Nobody knows why.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We would use sticks and iron rods to dig, but often we had to use our hands, especially on Mondays and Tuesdays when the garbage contained perishables like half-eaten sandwiches and cold cuts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin combined them all in an iron bowl, stirring them together with her index finger. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They harried and harassed iron monsters like hawks scattering mice. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

There were houses there now, and a feed-and-grain store, but on the far side of the hill, inside a rambling iron fence, was a cemetery. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Strike off these irons and let me help you take it, Sire. Your Grace’s royal brother was renowned for turning fallen foes into friends. Make me your man.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Although I passed my childhood on the same mountain that my father had passed his, slopping pigs in the same iron trough, I know very little about his boyhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The long list of its major technological firsts includes cast iron, the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing, and many others mentioned earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother cooked food in a three-legged iron pot over an open fire in the center of the hut or outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At fourteen dollars a month, his duties included controlling the mules along the canal’s towpath as they pulled the boat, which was loaded with supplies such as lumber, coal, iron, or copper ore. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“In your stables,” Taran said, “I saw hammers and iron bars. Will you grant us the use of them? Or,” he added bitterly, “must we pay still another price?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The night before he left for the Tower a visitor came to his room, one wearing a brown traveling-cloak and carrying a staff of oak shod with iron. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She then rapped three times on the thick black door, which was studded with iron nails and bore a knocker shaped like an eagle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Here through the black rock a long tunnel had been hewn, closed at either end with mighty doors of iron. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She uses wax paper to iron some kind of patches onto denim tablecloths, for the pageant luncheon, I’m sure. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Of iron. No one else bothers him quite the way that you do.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When it didn’t go through completely, he hit it again and again and again until finally the tire iron struck dirt. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

That could have been the precursor to an independent African discovery of iron metallurgy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were similar to the iron bands on her wrists, except these fit around their necks! Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The granite walls of my windowless cell are a foot thick, the iron bars two inches wide. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The iron must have had a tiny gasoline arrangement inside it to keep it hot. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He suddenly leaned forward, putting his arms on the table, as though to get this thing ironed out, by God, but Franny spoke up before he did. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

A rusty iron pipe ran a thin stream of spring water into an old green tub. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last iron bar, as he broke it out, cut the brawn of his hand to the bone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured the fox leaping, snarling, into the midst of the iron monsters, and I frowned, but Chestnutt didn’t notice and kept talking. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Lightning flashed, and the bars on the nearest window burst into sizzling, melted stubs of iron. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He saw an iron wolf standing high upon a hill. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I feel ashamed of the pride I take in ironing a crease extrasharp. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nods, and Miss Anderson takes Katherine's weapons and puts a pair of irons on her as well, although judging by Miss Anderson’s face it pains her to do so. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Some sat on the stone worktables to get a good view, while a dozen or so students gathered on the iron catwalks in the rafters among Kilvin’s hanging lamps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the bottom the flashlight beam illuminated a short, barren hallway ending at an iron door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Hungry by the time a plate was finally laid in her lap, Celaena became a bit more than irritated when the captain did not immediately remove her irons. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My rainy-day money was hidden here, eight iron pennies I had hoarded for when my luck turned bad. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They both struggled to raise their heads above the water, but the weight of their leg and neck irons pulled them down. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re educated, and I’m so tired of people touching iron and tipping their beer as soon as I mention the Chandrian. I’m just reconstructing a story, not meddling with dark arts.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dragonbone is black because of its high iron content, the book told him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Swallowing, Kaede set up the iron tripod and hung the kettle over the fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She loved the high-vaulted stone corridors, the immaculate cleanliness of the marble floors, the naked white walls, and the iron Christ who stood watch in the vestibule. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the three of us approach the house I see it as if for the first time—the porch light shining, an evergreen wreath on the door, the black iron railing and neatly shoveled walkway. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As we get closer, we see the house is surrounded by a foreboding iron fence. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She also ironed their clothes, which she rarely did except on the sacred holidays. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

She looks at my mother's freshly ironed black slacks and sky-blue blouse. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sophie Mol said through the iron railing, to everyone in particular. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rope and iron wheel were stored in an innocent-looking chest. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

‘No problem, just make sure you’re getting enough iron and protein. Hmm ... a little weak in the left shoulder. I assume you got hit with something heavy about a month ago?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The guillotine snaps its iron jaws with a clang that rings throughout the prison. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not only are we in the districts forced to remember the iron grip of the Capitol’s power each year, we are forced to celebrate it. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took them down, folded them in tight rectangular squares, and brought them inside, where my grandmother, the ironing board, and two flaming irons waited for me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Most of the homes on the east side of the canyon had grand driveways with arching iron gates. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the steps was a heavy door of oak and iron. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If there was a patrol between him and the iron road they would not get past it without loss unless they came closer together. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Closing the tear in the sky, defeating these iron monsters—that is only the beginning.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When she went out, she wore her same black suit that had been ironed and reironed, with her same white silk blouse. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had reached fifty-four when the steps finally ended at another iron door. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She grabbed my hand and burned me with the pointy part of the iron. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I made my way past the charred windmill to the iron hand pump. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Kaede looked at the Academy’s iron foundation, sunken into the top of the rocky cliff. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They marched past the cypress, where a singletree hung from a limb to butcher the pigs on, and past the black iron kettle, so it was not a pig killing. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thumbed through my closet and picked out a pleated emerald-green skirt with a crisply ironed white shirt. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was a great beast with scales of black iron, whose breath was a darkness that smothered men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I got a load a Mister Leefolt’s shirts to iron and after this I’m on get a pot roast going. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head sadly, bending over the ironing board to inspect a shirt with the tip of the iron she holds in her hand. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a hot blaze in the iron stove, a festive tree smelling of pine needles, professional entertainers from Moscow, and an amateur talent show. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She stood up real straight—putting iron in her back, Gran used to call it—and then she stepped forward. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She really did love her family, so much, but being at home was starting to feel like wearing an iron corset, painful and breathless and pinchy in all the wrong places. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“One minute. Oh . . . and so you have absolute privacy . . .” She waved her hand and iron bars slammed down over the windows. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

With the ugly iron head of the quarrel staring her in the face, it was hard to think what else to say. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her eyes scanned the walls of the gorge, searching for the reddish color of iron. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Jemmy pulled the iron kettle over his head. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Grappling hooks were flung out, iron rams crashed through wooden hulls, boarders swarmed, flights of arrows whispered through each other in the drifting smoke, and men died . . . but so far, none of his. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then they passed a massive red crypt decorated with human skulls on iron spikes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The outer gates were banded with copper, the middle with iron,- the innermost were studded with golden eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If there had been any slim sliver of doubt as to that fact, it had been laid to rest when the beast had been struck down by Tehlu’s own iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I ironed a bunch of tablecloths and napkins and even Miss Lizzy’s pillowcases. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Still, each of them bought a piece of cold-wrought iron from the smith, heavy as they could swing, and none of them said what they were thinking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After Mary Surratt’s afternoon visit, he took the “shooting irons” from their hiding place so they would be ready for the callers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been found unconscious atop the iron wheel that had killed the demon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I felt as if somebody was putting a hot iron on my wrist, then dragging it through the flesh. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A course I already got everthing ready to go—made the chicken salad this morning, ironed the tablecloths yesterday. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In gloved hands were clutched all manner of weapons: longswords and lances and sharpened scythes, spiked clubs and daggers and heavy iron mauls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was pleasantly warm inside, the heat shimmering off the coals in a dozen small iron braziers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A closed wagon came by, its wheels rimmed with iron, something I’d never seen before and marveled at. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, her head spinning with these thoughts, she passed the church on her way back to the seamstress, and the black iron gate to the cemetery was hanging open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put the iron down real slow, feel that bitter seed grow in my chest, the one planted after Treelore died. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I left to carry on the search, but as I moved an African tribesman with a neck giraffed by iron rings waded toward me from the depths of the first mirror. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A balcony, to which one ascended via a spiral staircase made of wrought iron, took the place of the second story of shelves. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glowing iron streaked in front of my face like a comet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on they walked, trudging in silence under a sky that had finally darkened to a dull iron gray and remained there without getting any darker. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll do your chores this whole week—peel the potatoes and turnips, take out the garbage, and iron the clothes.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It rode low in the water like a submarine, its deck plated with iron. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll get more in if you settle the iron after it’s been dumped. Hop in.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But by their fearsome wills he kept his throne in dearest Thebes, all through his evil days, while she descended to the place of Death, god of the locked and iron door. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair is ironed straight and some days I think I can still smell it burning. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I gave him lefts and rights and uppercuts for good measure, my two iron fists moving so quickly I couldn’t even feel them smashing his face. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was need of paraffin oil, nails, string, dog biscuits, and iron for the horses’ shoes, none of which could be produced on the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I grasp the iron rods of my bed with my fists. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are ironed linens on the kitchen table, a vase of wilting violets. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Apart from the bed, which lacked a headboard, the only other things in the room were a side table with a telephone on it, an ironing board, and a bureau. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The iron cage moved downward at the end of its long chain, creaking and rattling, until it finally jerked to a halt a foot above the ground at the base of the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“All right, you son of a hunk of iron ore, if we didn’t make you, who did?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

All the iron monsters in the clearing grew still for a moment. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

If a vodyanoi was after her, she could scare it away with iron. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He turned into a yard halfway down the shady street and leaped up upon the porch of a large green house with an iron rooster on the roof. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the iron hulk lay, as obediently as ever, while the bare-legged man pressed its own swordpoint through the ventail of the visor. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there is Januka, coming across the iron bridge to hug me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

But in concert with its fellows, a mighty iron that subjugated millions despite its weakness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He dug tunnels under stumps in his neighbors’ pastures and pried them out of the earth with long iron bars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The metal of the chains was the strongest metal that the gods could find: iron from the earth mixed with iron that had fallen from the sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Glass had not yet been installed in its generous windows, nor the iron grill that would cover the glass. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By the litter walk eight guards armed with “foray guns,” also relics of a more barbaric past but not empty ones, being loaded with pellets of soft iron. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had starched and ironed it before I went to bed the night before. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He thought the iron armatures had softened in the heat and then reset again to leave the buildings standing out of true. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At lunch, he walked outside the squadron headquarters and pounded a huge iron stake in the ground with a sledge hammer he kept in the trunk of his Jaguar XKE. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she picked him up carefully, avoiding his spurs, and took him outside into the dark, where a loose piece of corrugated iron roofing was banging in the cold wind with a melancholy sound. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Depends how much copper and iron you can pull,” Nailer said. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This way. There’s a natural vein of iron underground. You can feel it in your crash bracelets.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You pretend very well,” said Tyrion, examining a shirt of heavy iron mail so foil of holes that it almost looked moth- eaten. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I drop my mom’s ironed shirts on the floor and make it look like they fell off the hanger.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

You could see the abandoned funeral chapel, iron doors padlocked, ivy on the sides of the spire, a small tree growing out of the guttering at roof level. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

After a moment the door was opened from within by a guard in a black iron breastplate and pothelm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The snake men led them through an iron storm grate at the docks, straight into their underground lair, which smelled of rotting fish, mould and snakeskin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, Sisi had set eight places at the dining table, with wide plates the color of caramel and matching napkins ironed into crisp triangles. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tumbling peacefully they would, and when He said Rise only the flat irons. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier climbed out, holding a gun, wearing a uniform so smart that the lines of ironing were visible down the front. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They also acquired iron, which had just begun to be smelted in Africa’s Sahel zone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gold has its uses, but wars are won with iron. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was the King’s Huntress, and when she reached the iron gate she called out, “Good afternoon!” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all jumped into the hole and admired the triangular iron fragment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped it, and I dorit want someone to take it My brother has Mother's iron will. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mama went to the backyard with Sisi to put away the cast iron cooking tripods. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ma opened the front of the cookstove and raked hot coals out into the iron hearth. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cheeks and shoulders hurt like someone touched them with a hot iron. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She swerved that way and saw a gap between the coal-spirit barrels and the end of a corrugated iron shed, and darted for it like a bullet. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It takes up half a block behind black iron gates. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At ten seconds before the hour, they raise their bows and aim the flaming arrows at the waiting well of curling iron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He gave me an odd look, then shrugged and ran a length of rope through an iron ring above our heads. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But it was only impossible until it wasn’t, until he sighted that big frame, that florid face through the grate in an iron door. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had metallic golden skin, armor made from platinum links, and an iron staff the size of a totem pole. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

This was a bedroom with a plain iron bedstead overlaid with a thin white quilt. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the fruits were secured through the bashing of children with stovewood, through hot iron peeling skin away like husk from corn. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was a black ’dobe street, deep shining mud in winter and hard as rutted iron in summer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She buckled the iron dagger onto her belt and mounted her horse. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was still thinking about what I’d heard when, several minutes later, there were footsteps and Francis emerged in the kitchen, edging his way around the ironing board to gather his gloves and scarf. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then one of them had a go at me with a point of an iron churchyard railing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She has a gold pin on her perfectly ironed blazer, in honor of the current tournament season, and a clipboard tucked under one arm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was lit by a huge iron lantern that hung from the ceiling like a glowing cocoon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A flustered porter, taken by surprise, tried to shut it in his face, but received a blow on the ear from the iron fist, which knocked him flat. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t offer me any argument as I climbed onto the stone bench beneath the pole and stretched to reach the iron ring. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A pile of folded, crumpled clothes waited to be ironed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from my textbooks, my avatar had only a few meager possessions: a flashlight, an iron shortsword, a small bronze shield, and a suit of banded leather armor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Abuelita reached into her pocket, pulled out a worn leather coin purse and deposited six coins into the slot of the metal box in front of the iron candleholder. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then from an old flint and iron he caught a flame and thrust it into the straw and there was a blaze. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They look at the kitchen, with its iron stove and stone sink, and file along a dirt path to look at the outhouse. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw men, some sitting on cots, some standing behind the iron gates with their hands on the bars, looking at him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

An iron- collared male drove each machine, but an Amazon warrior stood on a platform in back, manning a giant mounted crossbow. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

No ornament; he had nothing bought with iron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Cook had lived through more than one tragedy at Daffodil Manor, and she took over the management of the household as she always did, without a complaint and with an iron will. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Year after year it sheds its skin, then eats it, keeping the iron in its system. After two hundred years ...” I tapped the scale against the stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All of the sheets were ironed and folded. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They stopped at a pair of wrought iron gates, which slowly swung open to admit them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Ruby taps her trunk against the rusty iron bars of her door. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Ma put the cubes into the big iron pot on the stove, poured in some water, and then watched while the pumpkin slowly boiled down, all day long. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nipples on his muscled breastplate had a pair of iron rings through them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Where the chrome plate had chipped away from the wrench the iron was gritty. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got that dog on your mind,” she says, lifting the big iron skillet to the stove top and laying some bacon in it. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Craftsmen and artisans created items that were brittle rumors compared with his father’s iron facts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a hard noise, a vaguely metallic thud, as if someone had dropped a heavy bar of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later April was taking the old-fashioned elevator, with its door like a folding iron fence, down to the lobby. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Widower wanted to use the eunuchs as an iron fist to smash through the heart of the Yunkish defenses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His school uniform, blue shorts, and white shirt with the St. Nicholas badge blazing from his left breast still had the ironed lines running down the front and back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He told them about his father’s collection of guns and swords and torture instruments and leg irons and so on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, after I fed Lynn, I would give her her iron pills. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny flecks of skin, parched from dry-cleaning clothes, ironing shirts, “heavy on the starch,” stand up searching for the moisture that was robbed day after day for eleven years. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

When the bridge came in sight below them there was a tractor-trailer jackknifed sideways across it and wedged into the buckled iron railings. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

There was a fire in an iron range, and Lyra sat freshly changed in the center of a large pine table. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Buckminster did not come out from the kitchen, but the iron skillet for the late dinner clanged sharply twice. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Pressing the cold iron between their legs, they felt the massive surge of power as Iorek began to move. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Father was outside at the iron gate, saying good-bye to the rest of the guests. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Since Henri had no money, it sometimes took him months to find a plank or a piece of iron or a dozen brass screws. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear voices inside the windows with the iron bars. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kote pressed the iron shim to the black side of the creature, and there was a short, sharp crackling sound, like a pine log snapping in a hot fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The iron, on, with its little red light glowing. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

At which point he launched himself at me—we don’t usually bind these men—and took my head beneath his arm in a grip of iron. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Okay, okay. Just wondered if you’d seen the large iron monster heading your way. Looks like the ones you’re pummeling now, only ten times bigger? Maybe gives the orders?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She rattled her iron jewelry and imagined how pleasant it would be to step up behind Stannis and throttle him with the chain that bound her wrists. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like someone had dropped a heavy bar of iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Near the sugar mill was a large television screen in an iron grill cage that the government had installed so that the shantytown dwellers could watch the state-sponsored news at eight o’clock every night. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the door there was a great iron knocker. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's barely morning and we're already awake, my grandmother in the kitchen ironing our Sunday clothes. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I ironed her dresses and packed her school lunch in a paper bag. She loved peanut butter. That’s all she wanted. Peanut butter Monday through Friday.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles pried at it with a long iron bar, and the rock bucked and rolled back again and again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She jerked the iron dagger out of its sheath at her waist and threw it savagely at the post, but as soon as it left her hand, she knew it was a bad throw. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ma hands us the powder-blue blouses and navy miniskirts, which she ironed the night before. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She would spend whole hours sucking her finger in the bathroom, holding herself back with an exhausting iron will so as not to eat earth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The big iron gate in front of the building was closed, but there was an unusual clamor coming from inside the house. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know what loss is,” she said, and listened as closely to what she was saying as did the woman sitting by her ironing board in a hat in the morning. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he felt as though his head was “bound with a band of iron.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I ate and complained about homework, Hassan made my bed, polished my shoes, ironed my outfit for the day, packed my books and pencils. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Physical education meant running around outside and playing on iron bars in the schoolyard. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He ducked his head and set to work cutting six thick, even slices of bread while Vola slapped a chunk of butter into an iron skillet and snapped on a flame beneath it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She thought it part of the mystery of his race that he could iron with an iron never heated on a stove. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing I hate worse than Stygian iron.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The fool turned his patched and piebald head to watch Pylos climb the steep iron steps to the rookery. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He took some wax, mixed it with iron filings and shaped it into a ball: when he had the mixture right it floated just below the surface of the water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It had windows too; those were its chief amenity, along with the iron ring set in the wall, so useful for chaining up one’s slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We sink to the ground, and the grip is as tight as iron. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The door at the back was heavy iron, bolted and padlocked. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mom had helped me collect scrap iron to make steel, and even let me donate our cast-iron kettle to the cause. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Con was holding a small iron cup of tea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But he stood still, hearing the babble of voices and the clanging of the shovel against iron. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The controlled binding and unbinding of iron and oxygen—the cyclical rusting and unrusting of blood—allows effective oxygen delivery into tissues. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sarah unplugged the iron and jerked her head at me as she passed me in the hallway. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on a high- backed chair that he had raised up on an iron frame with wheels, so he could move around the room. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, upon this lawn, stood an iron deer. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, my task was to iron out differences in areas that were about to launch actions or had recendy done so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A torn yellow streamer tied to one of the iron bars wafted up in the breeze, waving the word caution. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She wore a spectacular outfit: close-fitting pants, a layered tunic studded with whorls of iron, and knee-high boots; she carried her wooden staff, which stretched as high as her head. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My employer was referring, I realized, to a pair of gypsies gathering unwanted iron who had passed by earlier making their customary calls. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could iron until the cotton sheet was smooth. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“If this resulted in babies, women and their babies were killed,” An said, noting that he had personally seen newborns clubbed to death with iron rods. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I suppose I am,” Kvothe said, and his voice had iron in it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The mayor’s iron pony picks us up at half past four. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Each had a set of iron eye hooks along the inside, set at one-foot intervals. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z