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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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