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He glazed red figures similar to Etruscan pots onto the matte surfaces of his ironlike black basalt ware.

From Time Magazine Archive

His uniform, creased and stained, and now silvery with dew, flapped about a gaunt ironlike frame; and from under the leather peak of his kepi, even in his fever, his eyes burned steady and compelling.

From The Happy End by Hergesheimer, Joseph

That, together with the hardness of his eye, the cruelty of his mouth, and the absolute lack of softness anywhere in the ironlike face or frame—all this condemned the monster for what he was; inhuman.

From The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Flint, Homer Eon

A single false turn of the wheel, and the Searcher would have been dashed to atoms against the ironlike rocks on each side, above, and below.

From The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean by Rockwood, Roy

He stooped and clutched the broken war axe, grasping the stone head in the palm of his great hand, the jagged and ironlike shaft projecting from between his ringers like the blade of a dagger.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson