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  • The brick building, between Spring and Broome streets, was completed in 1885 and was originally a store and warehouse with iron-rimmed storefronts.

    Actor Rents Out SoHo Co-op Josh Barbanel 2011

  • Men stood aside for them, and looked after them enviously; for they took the rises of the trail on the run, and rattled down the counter slopes, and ground the iron-rimmed wheels harshly over the rocks.

    CHAPTER 3 2010

  • The creaking of wooden axles and the thunder of the iron-rimmed wheels on stone was deafening, and yet over and above this he gradually became aware of an ominous noise.

    THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

  • The creaking of wooden axles and the thunder of the iron-rimmed wheels on stone was deafening, and yet over and above this he gradually became aware of an ominous noise.

    THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

  • The creaking of wooden axles and the thunder of the iron-rimmed wheels on stone was deafening, and yet over and above this he gradually became aware of an ominous noise.

    THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

  • The creaking of wooden axles and the thunder of the iron-rimmed wheels on stone was deafening, and yet over and above this he gradually became aware of an ominous noise.

    THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

  • The creaking of wooden axles and the thunder of the iron-rimmed wheels on stone was deafening, and yet over and above this he gradually became aware of an ominous noise.

    THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009

  • Immense bulls haul on ice-encrusted chains and iron-rimmed wheels the size of houses groan on their axles while gouts of steam provide a writhing hazy shroud.

    Weapon Of Choice short story – excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2008

  • It took all my strength to keep her iron-rimmed hoof from becoming a weapon.

    Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006

  • The road from Dramuria to the guano mine was paved with rough-cut graystone, soft enough that over the years the iron-rimmed wheels of the wagons carrying the guano to the port had worn wide tracks into the very stone.

    Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

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