ironmongery

• “In the old East Germany he made lifelong friends such as Bernd Arnold, who used his own strength and agility to climb routes free of all the ironmongery that aided Albert back home.”

  The Guardian: Kurt Albert obituary

• “No doubt this is due to other pressing concerns; where this film extends itself is in the actual levels of mayhem that can be captured on camera: the amount of shattering detonations and flying ironmongery a contemporary movie can manage trounces a 25-year-old TV series.”

  The Guardian: The A-Team

• “They brought with them new ideas and technology, most importantly the notions of exclusive access to land and the concept of fixed boundaries, as well as ironmongery and guns.”

  Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa

• “About 2,300 stalls are piled high with a goods ranging from ironmongery and ceramics to wet noodles and live chickens.”

  The Wall Street Journal: City Walk: Ho Chi Minh City

• “Cool concrete floors, and benchtops sit alongside teak cabinetry and custom-made bronze ironmongery.”

  The Parsley House by Tobias Partners

• “It was nothing less than a mobile woodland shop, selling food and drink, soap, vodka, ironmongery, rugs and fabrics.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “If you went about your work properly, he left you alone, but if you stepped out of line he would give you a cursing," recalls Bert Maitland, 84, who started with Souter's as a messenger boy and ended up in the ironmongery.”

  Cameron simply lacks the upbringing. ....

• “In one corner lay some ironmongery of dubious aspect.”

  Les Miserables

• “Generally the practice is to have the goat tied to an immovable object fencepost, letterbox, rusty lump of ironmongery, and move it every so often to a new spot, then back again, according to grass growth.”

  An anthropological puzzle

• “As it greeted the world in the 19th century, phrases like “useless and monstrous,” “arrogant ironmongery,” “black factory chimney” and “disgraceful skeleton” poured forth, though none stopped it from becoming one of the most recognizable and beloved structures in the world.”

  A Plan to Temporarily Alter Eiffel Tower’s Silhouette - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com

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