iron-cased

Running from the cabin to the lower deck on the port side, he saw “the bows of the huge iron-cased ship towering above as high and inaccessible as the walls of a castle.”

Tragedy on the Thames 2007

Running from the cabin to the lower deck on the port side, he saw “the bows of the huge iron-cased ship towering above as high and inaccessible as the walls of a castle.”

Archive 2007-12-01 2007

“Certainly, madam,” answered Kirillovna, and going calmly back to her room she locked the note in an iron-cased box which stood at the head of her bed; she kept in it all her spare cash, and there was a considerable amount of it.

The Inn 2006

By the gods, I believe that was what the dog Roman wished -- his iron-cased watchdogs watched me narrowly, I know, and his baiting was harder to bear than ordinarily.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

Armstrong guns; and the two tremendous iron-cased ships, the

Roundabout Papers 2006

Here the knight was interrupted by the shouts and acclamations of the Vanderpelfites, who cried aloud, “Hear him! hear him! long life to the iron-cased orator.”

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

There are times when Slothrop actually can find a clutch mechanism between him and Their iron-cased engine far away up a power train whose shape and design he has to guess at, a clutch he can disengage, feeling then all his inertia of motion, his real helplessness ... it is not exactly unpleasant, either.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

At the battle of Kallinikon, when his cavalry was broken by the iron-cased horsemen of Persia -- the renowned _kataphraktoi_, or original steel lobsters -- the Roman general, with the genius of a Scipio or a Cæsar, saw that the steadiness of a body of infantry could alone save his army.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

Ladies wearing their diamonds, are conveyed to the theatre in Police Vans, surrounded by detachments of the Household Cavalry, and gentlemen's evening dress is supplemented by a six-chambered revolver, an iron-cased umbrella, a head protector, and a double-edged cut-and-thrusting broad-sword.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 Various

He has since ordered ten more iron-cased frigates and gun-boats, which are now in course of construction.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various