"One iron" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lumberers' home on the Ottawa; the main trunk line of railway, which will extend from the western point of the colony to Halifax, passes through it; a local line, traversing some of the richest land in Canada, is now in progress to Lake Simcoe and Lake Huron; one iron horse already affords it communication with Waterloo—nearly opposite Buffalo—whence produce descends by the Erie Canal and the Hudson to New York: besides all which advantages, it enjoys at present the privilege of being one of the seats of government ...
— Lands of the Slave and the Free - Cuba, The United States, and Canada • Henry A. Murray
... learned nothing but what has been already mentioned, and that its chief had one iron mine. It was rendered subject ...
— An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton
... instructions from an experienced canoe traveller seemed when reading them in my hermitage ashore, the present application of them (so important a principle in Captain Jack Bunsby's log of life) was in this emergency an impossibility; for my hat had disappeared with the seat-cushion and one iron outrigger, while the oars were floating to leeward ...
— Voyage of The Paper Canoe • N. H. Bishop
... apart, and click!—one iron was about a wrist. Then the other arm was seized, dragged downward, and click! the convict's wrists were secured behind his back, just as Mrs Braydon and her two daughters came hurrying out; and seeing what had taken ...
— First in the Field - A Story of New South Wales • George Manville Fenn
... Frau Forster, a daughter of Heyne's, somewhat democratic, walking out of the Gate of Mentz with her Husband, finds French Soldiers playing at bowls with cannon-balls there. Forster trips cheerfully over one iron bomb, with "Live the Republic!" A black-bearded National Guard answers: "Elle vivra bien sans vous, It will probably live independently of you!" (Johann Georg Forster's Briefwechsel (Leipzig, ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle |
