The word "Ironlike" in example sentences
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent. The Outcast
Fang “became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent.” Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
Nylan didn't feel that ironlike, not at all, and he wondered again how long before the shoulder would heal completely. The Chaos Balance
'I will kill this bull/he muttered, bearing down with all the force of his ironlike body. Mexico
His ironlike nails raked her back, tearing open the copper mesh dress. Riverwind the Plainsman
Among the trees reared a broken domelike structure, built of gigantic blocks of the peculiar ironlike green stone found only on the islands of Vilayet. Conan the Wanderer
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. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean
The other was a great, grey man whom age apparently had not weakened but rather settled and hardened into an ironlike durability; the winds of time or misfortune would have to break that stanch oak before it would bend. Trailin'!
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. The Happy End
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent. The Outcast
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. The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
Straight against the ironlike claws he drove, reckless in the grasp of the anger that had exploded within him at the unfair trick. The Plunderer
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring, more cruel, more ferocious, and more intelligent. White Fang
It would almost seem that the same great hand which chiseled out these monumental forms had also laid its fingers upon the people of this region and fashioned them rude and ironlike, in harmony with the stern faces set about them. The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West
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. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains