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Example sentences for "iron cage"

  • So He took him by the hand again, and led him into a very dark room, where there sat a man in an iron cage.

  • In accordance with the Code Rohan, the right hand was separated from the body, and gibbeted in an iron cage.

  • The trial lasted until May 30th, forty sittings being held--some of them in Jeanne's prison, where for a time she was kept in an iron cage.

  • The "iron cage" in which Bajazet was imprisoned by Timur, so long and so often repeated as a moral lesson, is now rejected as a fable by the modern writers, who smile at the vulgar credulity.

  • These were the voices and personalities which came through the bars of my iron cage, reflected from the opposite wall.

  • During the next three hours, as I sat on the floor close to the door of my iron cage, our talk covered a wide range of topics from grave to gay.

  • In none too pleasant a frame of mind toward prison officialdom, I enter my iron cage.

  • The electric light, held close to the grated door of my iron cage, has enabled me thus far to see the operations of Captain Martin and the trusty.

  • The iron cage in which Bajazet was imprisoned by Tamerlane, so long and so often repeated as a moral lesson, is now rejected as a fable by the modern writers, who smile at the vulgar credulity.

  • Buchan in an iron cage, for placing the crown of Scotland on the head of Bruce.

  • Alexander the Great had the philosopher CallisthenĂªs chained for seven months in an iron cage, for refusing to pay him divine honors.

  • Eussia kept her perruquier for more than three years in an iron cage in her bed-chamber, to prevent his telling people that she wore a wig.

  • Balue (grand-almoner of France) for ten years in an iron cage in the castle of Loches [Losh].

  • Placed in an Iron Cage--Breaking Out and Attempting to Dig Through a Brick Wall--An Unexpected Surprise.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attached himself; cold smile; could bring; iron bars; iron core; iron girders; iron hoop; iron oxide; iron pipe; iron pipes; iron plate; iron plates; iron pyrites; iron railing; iron ring; iron vessel; iron wire; iron work; ironical smile; might have been anticipated; much branched; ordnance stores; saith unto; should get; sift sugar; would not have been