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With the same hard demeanour, she was led back to prison, and vanished from the public gaze within its iron-clamped portal.
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door.
The Scarlet Letter 2002
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"In his right hand he grasped an iron-clamped mace."
The Frogs 2000
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He kept all these papers in a huge iron-clamped chest, and he instructed
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2 Lyndon Orr
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He kept all these papers in a huge iron-clamped chest, and he instructed
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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_In his right hand he grasped an iron-clamped mace_.
The Frogs 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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When they at last reached Andover Court, and his Grace assisted her to alight her legs would barely carry her up the steps to the great iron-clamped door.
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He turned and strode along the room, his heavy, iron-clamped boots ringing on the paved floor.
Dope Sax Rohmer 1921
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With the same hard demeanour, she was led back to prison, and vanished from the public gaze within its iron-clamped portal.
III. The Recognition 1917
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THE GRASS-PLOT before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door.
II. The Market-Place 1917
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