Flat-Iron

The Flat-Iron Building Tor occupies -- narrow enough as it is -- will become a libertarian stronghold, with the hundred thousand different libertarian flags flying overhead.

March 2008 2008

"Jackanapes," "Six to Sixteen," "A Flat-Iron for a Farthing," are all three by Mrs. Ewing, and are charming books.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 19, March 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls Various

He could bring a small boat up within a dozen feet of the Flat-Iron any day, unless the wind was setting with the current across the bay, when he might get driven on to the rocks if he wasn't careful. '

Have His Carcase Sayers, Dorothy L. 1932

Did you see what she that? 'uns up to the Vlat-Iron an* starts messin' about here anybody else on the Flat-Iron? 'twas a chap lyin' down.

Have His Carcase Sayers, Dorothy L. 1932

Suppose a fishing-boat had wanted to come in at the Flat-Iron just about low tide on Thursday

Have His Carcase Sayers, Dorothy L. 1932

The "Flat-Iron" building towered appallingly into the middle distance like the ship prow of some giant invasion.

A Fountain Sealed Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904

A great pride and peace enwrapped him when the procession halted at the Flat-Iron Lot, and the minister, lifting up his voice, explained to the townspeople why they were called upon to pause.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

A great pride and peace enwrapped him when the procession halted at the Flat-Iron Lot, and the minister, lifting up his voice, explained to the townspeople why they were called upon to pause.

Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

How keenly she saw from a child's eyes, and with a child's mind its outlook on life, is shown by the "real child" language in those stories where the child hero or heroine are made to, as it were, tell the story themselves; "Mary's Meadow" and "Flat-Iron for a Farthing" being especially good examples of this wonderful power of hers, of being able to see from all points.

Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's "Canada Home" Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1896

When "A Flat-Iron" ‡ came out in its book form it was dedicated "To my dear Father, and to his sister, my dear Aunt Mary, in memory of their good friend and nurse, E. B., obiit 3 March, 1872, æt. 83"; the loyal devotion and high integrity of Nurse Bundle having been somewhat drawn from the "E. B." alluded to.

Juliana Horatia Ewing and Her Books 1885