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  • The old merchant opened the iron-lined shutters, which were so familiar to him, and threw up the lower half of the sash window.

    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

  • The old merchant opened the iron-lined shutters, which were so familiar to him, and threw up the lower half of the sash window.

    At the Sign of the Cat and Racket 2007

  • There were bags of powder in an iron-lined, stone-walled magazine building well away from the others, but nothing besides cannon shells and powder.

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • He swallowed, and began to undo the linkages in the iron-lined walls of the largest magazine that he could reach, at the same time creating order-tubes to the other magazines nearest.

    Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • A sample granite casemate, with iron-lined embrasure, was built at Fortress Monroe, and 8 shots were fired at it from a 12 in. rifle converted from an old 15 in. smooth bore.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 Various

  • Resident Engineers, including the land tunnels from the east side of Tenth Avenue, New York City, to the commencement of the iron-lined tunnels, and extending westward from there to the Weehawken Shaft, New Jersey.

    Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The North River Division. Paper No. 1151 Charles M. Jacobs

  • They constructed under the glacier an iron-lined tunnel, connecting the upper lake with the lower, and in this way the water escaped at once.

    Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Nico [Illustrator] Jungman 1893

  • D'Aguilar wore a breastplate of gold-inlaid black steel and a helmet, while Peter had but his tunic of bull's hide and iron-lined cap, though his straight cut-and-thrust sword was heavier and mayhap half an inch longer than that of his foe.

    Fair Margaret Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • The caretaker produced the keys of the iron-lined plate cupboard, and showed its old-world contents, clean and in order.

    Lady Rose's Daughter Humphry Ward 1885

  • The box was not strong enough to have held him for five minutes had he attacked it as he attacked the trap and as he subsequently demolished an iron-lined den, but I put my trust in the moral influence of the chain around his neck.

    Bears I Have Met—and Others Allen Kelly 1885

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