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  • His hands, large and bony, clutched a black-iron scepter.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge! 2009

  • “I will, buttercup,” Layne promised, then turned and walked up the path to the black-iron gate.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

  • Layne followed a gaggle of pudgy sightseers clad in tourist regulation wear—shorts, sun visors, baseball caps, shades, and pungent sunscreen—through the black-iron gates of St. Louis Cemetery No.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

  • I held a World War I-era weapon, an ancient black-iron spear with a spring, and I was told to load balloons onto it without popping them, and then I was to fire the balloons at some unnamed target.

    That Crazy-Ass Willy Wonka Boat Laura Preble 2010

  • A melancholy air permeated the cemetery, sieving into the crypts, black-iron railings, and the living like a ghost into a Vessel.

    Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

  •  He and I gathered up the spent shucks and cradled them to the back corner of the yard, to the square black-iron pen where trash was burned.

    Fifth of July 2009

  • He and I gathered up the spent shucks and cradled them to the back corner of the yard, to the square black-iron pen where trash was burned.

    Fifth of July Nat Akin 2009

  • Looking back now, I can see that I spent my seventh-grade year in a state of depression, imprisoned behind the red-brick, black-iron walls of All Souls Preparatory.

    Excerpt: London Calling by Edward Bloor 2006

  • As if on cue, snow began falling outside the copper-trimmed windows of the restaurant, big silver flakes that hung in glittering cones from Madison Avenue's old-fashioned black-iron lampposts.

    Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007

  • Heat your largest black-iron skillet to medium high.

    Firedoglake » Pull Up a Chair… 2006

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