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  • There, some thirty feet in width, was a shallow, iron-railed pit. this pit was encircled with several tiers of bleacherlike wooden benches.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • The Foundation stood mid-block among façades that melded together to make an elegant sweep of cream-colored stucco, iron railings at street level, iron-railed terrace running along the entire length of the next floor, tall windows overlooking the trees and flowers of Mowbray Square.

    Venom Joan Brady 2010

  • They entered another little passage in the wall of this ante-chamber, and then he found himself on an iron-railed gallery of metal that passed round the side of the great hall he had already seen through the curtains.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • Because she and the boy had come early, she had won for them a coveted spot: they stood against the iron-railed barricade separating the general crowd from the cathedral doors and from Archbishop Romero's casket, positioned there, plain and unadorned, on the landing above the steps.

    Excerpt: The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez 2001

  • His head fell on the pillow and, sinking through the down, he heard the pounding of his heart; and every pound was a footstep, as down the iron-railed hall the warder clanged, calling out the numbers of the cells and the cell doors slammed as he called them rebounding, and the bawling and banging and hounding steps came closer till his door was resoundingly next.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • His head fell on the pillow and, sinking through the down, he heard the pounding of his heart; and every pound was a footstep, as down the iron-railed hall the warder clanged, calling out the numbers of the cells and the cell doors slammed as he called them rebounding, and the bawling and banging and hounding steps came closer till his door was resoundingly next.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • There was indeed one vast, high-ceilinged room, with wooden beams cutting across the space overhead, and iron-railed stairs to balconies on either side.

    The Final Reflection John M. Ford 2000

  • It was the Guthrie Theatre, with the lobbies and wide iron-railed staircases thronged with concertgoers.

    War for the Oaks Bull, Emma, 1954- 1987

  • Our room was on the third floor of the hotel, with a small iron-railed balcony overlooking the gardens of Ezbekieh Square.

    The Mummy Case Peters, Elizabeth 1985

  • The afternoon sun had already died in the west as he walked down Dauphine, and the old stucco buildings and the iron-railed balconies stood out against the acetylene-blue glow of the sky after dusk.

    Half of Paradise James Lee Burke 1965

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