Quotes About Ironmongery

She had dead straight, greying hair the she yanked sideways and anchored with enough ironmongery to sink a small ship.

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.

In an age of aerial surveillance and high-security technology, it was a blacksmith's barrier of antiquated ironmongery: old rusty ramparts running for miles, a visible example of national paranoia.