iron-grated

A step or two higher up the stair showed light and a door, and an iron-grated wicket led him out upon a gallery cut in the open face of the rock, extending a space of about six or eight yards, until he reached a second door, where the path re-entered the rock, and which was also defended by an iron portcullis.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

A huge iron-grated door, which formed the exterior defence of the gateway, was already thrown back to receive them; and a second, heavily constructed of oak and studded thickly with iron nails, being next opened, admitted them into the interior court-yard.

Waverley 2004

Opening the iron-grated prison door, he stood back.

SEASONS OF GOLD STEF ANN HOLM 1992

As they passed a row of iron-grated windows a rough, hairy hand was thrust nearly into Rocjean's face, with the request that he would bestow a baioccho for charity on the owner.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Gualtier was put into a small chamber, with whitewashed walls, narrow iron-grated window, and solid oaken doors, in which there was a small round opening.

The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

In this famous structure, with its iron-grated doors, its ancient tapestry hanging over secret passages and obscure approaches, he took refuge.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

Prayers in Latin followed, then again a chanted psalm, and Mademoiselle G---- was led away through the iron-grated door, which was then closed.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

Bock was standing on his hind legs, looking up at the front wall of the cellar, in which two small iron-grated windows opened onto the sunken area by the front door of the shop.

The Haunted Bookshop 1918

Yet he deferred forcing an entrance, at the moment, hungrily as he studied the inner partition door through the iron-grated glass.

The Man Who Made Good 1910

On the morrow I yielded to curiosity, and after wandering to and fro in the park, came near a small stone house with unglazed, iron-grated windows.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909