steel-walled

As the life-giver and race-conserver, I should have imagined her a Lady Bountiful, tripping regularly into that ghastly steel-walled hospital room of the midship-house and dispensing gruel, sunshine, and even tracts.

CHAPTER XVII 2010

And I did hear that last futile shot, and the bullet also as it ricochetted from the corner of the steel-walled chart-house.

CHAPTER XLII 2010

There is no way for them to get out of their steel-walled prison, for all the ventilators are guarded with stout wire-mesh.

CHAPTER XXV 2010

At a steel-walled ACCO clip factory in Pleasant Prairie, Wis., posters exhort workers to slay "the seven deadly wastes," including excessive inventory and "doing more 'work' to an order than is required by the customer."

Mousetraps, Maybe, but Can You Build a Better Paper Clip? James R. Hagerty 2011

She stepped into the steel-walled hall and spotted the two uniformed Navy guards posted at the door a few steps down the hall.

Ice Hunt Rollins, James, 1961- 2003

The meteorological vessel bounced on swirling currents of air, a steel-walled balloon.

Excerpt: Dune: House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert 2000

When no-one came out of the steel-walled barn with pitchfork at the ready or out of the imposing brick and tiled house with rolling pin rampant, Barbara concluded that she had the farmyard, if not its surrounding fields and pastures, to herself.

In the Presence of the Enemy George, Elizabeth 1996

Aboard an aircraft carrier, the vast and cavernous, steel-walled space called the hangar deck marks a kind of dividing line in shipboard numbering conventions.

Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

Here, in an area that was restricted even to some of his own staff, Minck took her through several windowless laboratories and into a steel-walled cubicle.

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

She had gone through the door, into a tiny, steel-walled cubicle v that had evidently been designed for holding the most important records in safety in the event of some disaster or. mischance to the station.

Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963