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Example sentences for "iron chest"

  • They had dug to water-level when they reached an iron chest, and they stooped to lift it-but, to their amazement, the iron was too hot to handle!

  • The retort-mouth is then removed, and the ignited charcoal is raked out for extinction into an iron chest, having a groove round its edges, into which a lid is fitted.

  • I discovered that the paper was a chart of the Bahama Islands, and that it gave the latitude and longitude of a particular island, together with other information necessary for the finding of what purported to be an iron chest.

  • The victim was one Archibald Townsend, and there were strong rumors flying about of a head carved from wood, of an iron chest, and of the thieves mixed up in the robbery having given their nefarious attentions to Mr. Townsend before.

  • Hobart used to show the idol to his friends, taking it from an iron chest where it was carefully packed in sawdust, and to which, after a few moments of exhibiting, he was always careful to return it.

  • The "Iron Chest" had been ill-rehearsed, and Kemble himself was in such a suffering condition on the first night that he was taking opium pills as the curtain was rising.

  • There was no one in the boat, but on the stern thwart, in plain view and unmistakable, was Townsend's iron chest.

  • Whistler had tried to force her into telling him the whereabouts of an "iron chest.

  • The boys had seen that particular iron chest so many times that they were perfectly familiar with its appearance.

  • He come now from ze Bahamas and ask about ze iron chest, and where zis Townsend take heem.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural machinery; brilliant success; built town; calico printing; flying machine; give pain; iron and; iron cage; iron chest; iron door; iron hoop; iron ores; iron oxide; iron pyrites; iron ring; iron stove; iron wire; ironical smile; longer afraid; lost love; one piece; second half; suddenly came; tensile strength; who knew; wind south