iron-clamped

• “The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door.”

  The Scarlet Letter

• “In his right hand he grasped an iron-clamped mace.”

  The Frogs

• “He kept all these papers in a huge iron-clamped chest, and he instructed”

  Famous Affinities of History — Complete

• “_In his right hand he grasped an iron-clamped mace_.”

  The Frogs

• “When they at last reached Andover Court, and his Grace assisted her to alight her legs would barely carry her up the steps to the great iron-clamped door.”

  The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century

• “He turned and strode along the room, his heavy, iron-clamped boots ringing on the paved floor.”

  Dope

• “With the same hard demeanour, she was led back to prison, and vanished from the public gaze within its iron-clamped portal.”

  III. The Recognition

• “THE GRASS-PLOT before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door.”

  II. The Market-Place

• “Along the walls stood chairs with lyre-shaped backs, bought by the late general on his campaign in Poland; in one corner was a little bedstead under a muslin canopy beside an iron-clamped chest with a convex lid.”

  Chapter VIII

• “A single narrow iron-clamped door formed the only means of entrance.”

  The Sign of Four

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