Unyielding

Usage examples of ironbound.

She contemplated what that might mean as the strange caravan rolled on, the bull beasts snorting and huffing from their exertions, the wolves surging past in flashes of gray ruff and snarling muzzles, the creaking of ironbound wheels and leather harness mingling with the staccato snapping of whips and the odd croaking of wagon drivers she could not see.

She sat up, bracing herself against the pitch and roll of the wagon, looking up the rampway to where a pair of massive, ironbound gates had opened to admit them.

Troll warriors bunched at the opening, huge armored shoulders and wide backs straining against the ironbound barriers and massive locks.

Stephen did not like the advent of another sister, for it took some of the limelight away from his ironbound leg.

By the time the men were cleaned and ready, Amos and Harry approached carrying a charred ironbound wooden chest.

A broad, ironbound door at the top of the wide steps that led up to the palace opened then as if someone behind it had been waiting for them all to arrive.

The stone archway that led into the city revealed the incredible thickness of the walls, and the ironbound gate was massive.

The rest watched from the house, with the heavy ironbound shutters ready to slam across.

Now straw wreaths bedecked the ironbound oak of the Guelesfort gates, and straw covered the cobbles ahead of the court procession.

High Lords, up in Kehnooryos Atheenahs, can put a Confederation nobleman to the torture without ironbound proof of wrongdoing.

Elsewhere were stacked hogsheads and barrels of pickled vegetables and pickled or salted meats, stone crocks of salt or honey, stone jugs of brandy and cordials, kegs of oil and, near the stairs leading to the upper cellar, several ironbound caskets secured with huge padlocks.

The only furnishings were heaps of yellow cushions scattered on the floor and a row of stout, ironbound chests standing along the rear wall.

On their left hand, some ten miles to the south, stood out against the sky the purple wall of Hartland cliffs, sinking lower and lower as they trended away to the southward along the lonely ironbound shores of Cornwall, until they faded, dim and blue, into the blue horizon forty miles away.

Their ironbound frames and rugged dispositions make them hearty additions to the most prosaic farmyard.

Meder said in distracted snappishness as he lifted a flat ironbound box about a foot long onto the chair seat.