What is "hierro"

Usage examples of "hierro".

Era un arma aterradora, un sable con una hoja de más de un metro de largo, hecha de hierro azulado y no de cobre ni de bronce, como era de esperar por su antigüedad.

Con un estrépito ensordecedor, la piedra cedió y la argolla de hierro saltó arrancada de la pared.

Conan entabló una lucha con los animales sobre el hielo resbaladizo, esgrimiendo la ensangrentada cadena a modo de mazo, hasta que el lobo más intrépido cogió los eslabones de hierro entre sus terribles mandíbulas y arrancó la cadena que sus manos sujetaban con dificultad.

Solía estar cerrada por una reja de hierro, pero está desgastada por la herrumbre.

Recordó vagamente un estruendo metálico y se preguntó si se trataría de la puerta de hierro de su calabozo al cerrarse tras él, o si anunciaba la llegada del verdugo.

Cuando entré en el túnel vi que cayó una reja de hierro del techo, con gran estrépito.

El dolor era semejante al de un hierro al rojo vivo sobre la carne, pero Conan no movió ni un músculo, como si no sintiera nada.

Perhaps on that day at the castle he had moved, without realizing it, a few yards with respect to the highest hill on the Isla de Hierro and had seen the Universe inhabited by another Roberto, a Roberto not sentenced to the conquest of the outwork beyond the walls or saved by another father who did not kill the polite Spaniard.

This is the globe on which we live, and you can see how the wisdom of the ancients divided it into three hundred sixty degrees of longi­tude, usually starting from the meridian that crosses the Isla de Hierro in the Canaries.

And yet, except on the meridian of the Isla de Hierro, in all other places it shifts from true north, moving now east, now west according to the climes and the latitudes.

If the Islands of Solomon, as tradition has it, are on the antimeridian of the Isla de Hierro, and if we are at the correct latitude, sailing towards the west with a following wind, we should land at San Cristoval, or however we choose to rebaptize that ghastly island.

From Roberto’s confused notes it seems Father Caspar calculates precisely three hundred sixty degrees from the Isla de Hierro, eighteen degrees west of Greenwich, as tradition had required since the days of Ptolemy.

And Father Caspar admitted that the Isla de Hierro was still the best candidate, as—Roberto had already learned this from Dr.

And He took them here because, if the highest mountains of the earth are around the first meridian, between Jerusalem and Isla de Hierro, certainly the marine abysses the most deep must be here, on the antimeridian, for reasons of symmetry.