What is "wrought-iron"

Usage examples of "wrought-iron".

Lava lamps, kidney-shaped plastic tables, a lampshade made out of Bon Ami and Ajax cleanser cartons, wrought-iron and black-canvas chairs you sank down into like hammocks, an old Motorola console TV.

The places were larger than they looked at first glance, but still might have been dismissed as middle-class housing but for the gilding around the windows, doors, and immaculate edgework, and the fact that few middle-class townhouses sported upper-story gargoyles and such intricate wrought-iron works placed almost purely for decoration.

Wrought-iron grapnels came upward at the ends of knotted ropes, and the warriors behind them.

With candles burning in wrought-iron sconces and freestanding candelabra, the atmosphere was positively fantastic.

I followed Walker across the lot and as we got close to the hearse I could see that the back of it was loaded with all kinds of junk, mostly stuff from Mexico: patio lanterns, wrought-iron bookends, pin atas and a few adding machines and typewriters.

The wrought-iron gates slid apart and Dolvach Trenchwhistle burst forth beefily followed by a quartet of chambermaids bearing laden trays.

A half-mile further along, a wide driveway surfaced with pink chippings ended abruptly in a set of tall wrought-iron gates.

Ford, of Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, from iron-ore and coal, both got in the same dale, makes iron brittle or tough as he pleases, there being cannon thus cast so soft as to bear turning like wrought-iron.

In my weakened condition it took the next few hours to loosen and remove the wrought-iron embellishments from the coatstand that stood beside the front door.

Noting his approach, the cockatiel abandoned its food and crawled onto the perch nearest the wrought-iron door.

It seemed to him that here, among the columnated houses, with their plaster and wrought-iron scalloping, the natural tones and inclinations of the land had been pushed back, held at bay along the foothills, and that here the brand of the legions of rikkagin from faraway lands, squatting, growing fat from the wealth of Sha'angh'sei's land, was very apparent.

Note, as we stroll past the backs of Christ Church, the studied calm of Corpus Christi, the soft golden glow of Merton, that we are immersed in an architectural treasure house, one of the densest assemblages of historic buildings in the world, and that Merton Street presents us with an unquestionably becoming prospect of gabled buildings, elaborate wrought-iron gates and fine seventeenth and eighteenth-century townhouses.

The first experiments were made with vessels of wood, but they eventually led to the construction of iron vessels upon a large scale and on an entirely new principle of construction, with angle iron ribs and wrought-iron sheathing plates.

The Mediterranean-style house was set dramatically against the stark black rise of the mountains, pinned by static swords of security lights, and surrounded by stucco walls, wrought-iron gates, palm trees, ocotillo, and barrel cactus.

Despite the job going to the lowest bidder, touches of history remained in wooden doors with clear-paned glass, etched windows and an ornate wrought-iron staircase painted brick red.