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Ironheads

Ironheads \I"ron*heads`\, n. (Bot.) A European composite herb ( Centaurea nigra); -- so called from the resemblance of its knobbed head to an iron ball fixed on a long handle.
--Dr. Prior.

Usage examples of "ironheads".

Hyaroll had collected along with his mobile specimens and set out where the whim had taken him, leaving them to the care of the ironheads and the lizard people who lived here already.

But Simcor Beddle, leader of the Ironheads, had no time to think about how menial robots spent their days.

His Ironheads were a highly effective team of rowdies, but they were rowdies all the same--and as such, they easily grew restive and bored.

No one quite knew where the Ironheads had gotten their name, but no one could deny it was appropriate.

If anything, Ironheads were harder on their robots than the average Infernal.

Once the Ironheads started the ruckus, they would only have a few minutes before the law stepped in to protect the damned Settlers.

Which was ironic, of course, because he believed in everything the Ironheads professed.

Unless the Ironheads had found out about her connection to the Settlers and taken their revenge.

There was a group of masked Ironheads off in a copse of young trees, destroying as many of the saplings as they could, firing point-blank at their trunks with blasters.

The Ironheads scattered, but one or two were dropped by the gas, unable to outrun it.

Now there was a full-fledged roar from the back of the hall, where the Ironheads had congregated.

But if Simcor Beddle sent you here to disrupt my speech, you go back and tell the leader of the Ironheads that you helped me make my point.

The deputies struggled to break up the Ironheads, but they were hopelessly outnumbered.

Now the Settlers were getting to their feet, some of them attempting to flee, others seeming just as eager for the fight as the Ironheads, slowed only by the press of bystanders intent on nothing more than escape.

The Ironheads and Settlers were closing in on each other, and the riot was about to begin in earnest.