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Fill the cracks in iron-ware with this cement, and let them remain several weeks before using them.
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A small cag of salt, and another of nails and iron-ware, were likewise put on board of her, to traffic with the
Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791 Edward Edwards
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Linens, woollens, paper-hangings, coarse kind of iron-ware, and various other articles of domestic life were approved by the society, and eagerly purchased by the public.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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All cooking utensils, including iron-ware, should be washed outside and inside in hot, soapy water; rinsed in clean, hot water, wiped dry with a dry towel; a soapy or greasy dish-cloth should never be used for the purpose.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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They killed great quantities of meat, which they exchanged (to the ships 'captains) for strong waters, muskets, powder and ball, woven stuffs, and iron-ware.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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The chief manufactures of Kasvin are carpets, a kind of coarse cotton-cloth called _kerbas_, velvet, brocades, iron-ware and sword-blades, which are much appreciated by Persians.
Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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In close alliance with him, though not in partnership, was his brother-in-law, Elias Trip, the head of a firm reputed to have the most extensive business in iron-ware and weapons in the Netherlands.
History of Holland George Edmundson 1889
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[352] How bright a scene of industry, when compared with the grime and squalor of the English factory-town, where the human and the inanimate machine grind out their yearly mountains of iron-ware and calico, in order that the employer may vie with his neighbours in soulless ostentation, and the workman consume his millions upon millions in drink.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868
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I was told that articles of iron-ware sold, in Cherokee, at from three to five cents per pound, -- never dearer than the latter
Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina. Henry E. Colton 1859
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She threatens: "If I read out John Masefield's 'Cargoes' one more time, with its 'cargo of firewood, iron-ware and cheap tin trays', she'd belt me round the head with a cheap tin tray and see how I liked it."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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