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Usage examples of ironside.

And then, when they were all safely at Ironside and father had begun to preach in the old stone church, which his great-great-grandfather, John Fincastle, pioneer, and his flock had built with their own hands, he had lost this charge also as soon as the second volume of his book had come from the press.

The dwelling stood slightly withdrawn from the village, on land that had belonged to the Fincastles ever since Ironside had been a part of the frontier and John Fincastle had led his human flock up from the Indian savannahs, running in wild grass and pea-vine, to the bowed shoulder of the mountain.

But years passed before they could assemble material for the Ironside church, with the floor of walnut puncheons, the high-backed pews, the stone stairways to the gallery.

All his life he had laboured in the field at Ironside, and he had built up his church here and founded the mission on Thunder Mountain.

It was only natural, Ada realized now, that Ironside should have been divided between relief over the removal of sin and reluctance to accept the burden of Toby, who would remain an idiot boy if he lived to be eighty.

Through the rustling leaves she could see the few scattered lights that still burned in Ironside and, flung far out into the silvery dusk of the fields, a single wavering spark in the hovel by the ravine.

She could not separate them in memory, or if she separated them, it was merely by the thought, Ralph wrote to me often then, or Ralph came back to Ironside, but I seldom saw him.

Though she was a walking skeleton when she reached Ironside, she had had the spirit, or the folly, to begin life again.

If you should find living in Ironside unbearable, go to Queenborough and take my name and wait for me.

To go back, not now, but some day when they had prospered and saved, and all the children in Ironside had grown up.

Several years before, when the Valley turnpike had gone to Teesdale from Doncaster instead of coming to Ironside, the old house had changed hands again at a forced sale, and a few months later Dr.

If he died in Ironside, they would be saved the trouble and cost of the journey.

Only in Ironside could he find the freedom to sink back into changeless beatitude, into nothing and everything.

He would love the summer in Ironside, and if he wins that scholarship, as he is sure to do, he will be away all next winter.

Sir John Dill, who had succeeded General Ironside in May, 1940, remained C.