Driving aids

Usage examples of irons.

Gaugemen space the irons out, and they in turn are gone, and the spikers move in.

If the fellow saw me there our chances of escape might quickly go glimmering, for I knew that they would put me in irons if they had the slightest conception of the wonderful agility which my earthly muscles gave me upon Mars.

Some of them were in irons, but for the most part they seemed sufficiently awed by the presence of their guards to preclude any possibility of attempted escape.

Two of the warriors remained without while the man with the keys entered with the Thark to fasten his irons upon him once more.

As he talked Carthoris had been working at the lock which held my fetters, and now, with an exclamation of pleasure, he dropped the end of the chain to the floor, and I stood up once more, freed from the galling irons I had chafed in for almost a year.

There was but a yard between the two mighty ships as the first grappling irons were hurled.

It consists of a pair of tubular girders with solid or plate sides stiffened by angle irons, one line of rails passing through each tube.

Bass kept his distance from the bars as he flung the set of irons toward Krai.

They blinded him with flaming irons, they crushed his hands and feet, and finally they cut his manhood from him.

The forcefield flickered and died, but Dionysos remained shackled in leg irons and wrist irons.

She was almost close enough to touch the wheel when Biter lurched to his feet and grabbed for her, his irons clanking and rattling.

Biter was flinging himself against the chains, blood running down his arms from where the irons clasped his wrists.