He sought out a tall oak tree, climbed up to the top, and felt devoutly thankful that his big smoothing-iron was in his pocket, for the wind in the tree-tops was so high that he might easily have been blown away altogether. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Nails in the front of a bed ward off elves from women in the straw and from their babes; but to make quite sure it is better to put the smoothing-iron under the bed, and the reaping-hook in the window. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Nails in the front of a bed ward off elves from women "in the straw" and from their babes; but to make quite sure it is better to put the smoothing-iron under the bed, and the reaping-hook in the window. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Owing to his brother's early death – an event quite disconnected, let me hasten to say, from the red-hot smoothing-iron – she showed ❋ Unknown (1905)
Sponge faded silks with warm water and soap; then rub them with a dry cloth on a flat board; afterward iron them on the inside with a smoothing-iron. ❋ Marion Mills Miller (1906)
There was, of course, no central heating, and no electricity for one's smoothing-iron, so that one's clothing must become quite disreputable for want of pressing. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)
College and Hall: every 'Oxford man,' to adopt the well-known name, is subdued into sameness within and without, controlled as it were into copyism and mediocrity by the smoothing-iron of the nineteenth century. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
You could hear the sound of Sister Tobias's smoothing-iron coming up from below, thump-thumping on the blanketed board. ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)
And I wouldn't have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. ❋ O. Henry (1886)
Her stoical eyelids were lowered, and she moved with the rhythmical motion of the smoothing-iron. ❋ Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1874)
The close-shaven beard on the cheeks and chin rested closely upon the white ruff, which seemed to have just come from under the laundresses 'smoothing-iron. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)
They are used for igniting hookhas: they are also burnt inside the smoothing-iron used by washermen in order to heat it. ❋ Francis Galton (1866)
Borax renders fine textile fabrics stiff; it causes dust, and will swell out under the smoothing-iron; so does alum, beside weakening the fibres of the stuff, so as to make it tear easily. ❋ Francis Galton (1866)
A Russian sleigh is shaped somewhat like a laundry smoothing-iron, much narrower forward than aft, so that a traveler does not usually find the space beneath the driver a world too wide for his shrunk shanks. ❋ Thomas Wallace Knox (1865)
The face of the farm-servant hardly looked more anxious than when he walked between his oxen in the field, and the skillful tailor handled his gun with as much indifference as he would his smoothing-iron. ❋ Gustav Freytag (1855)
My hand aches to-day with lifting the heavy smoothing-iron, which is not iron, but a large brass box, hollow and filled with hot charcoal. ❋ Henriette McDougall (1851)
(Stanza XXII.) is his smoothing-iron, and his "hell" (Stanza XXIII.) the place where he throws his shreds and debris. ❋ Charles Lamb (1804)
[46.3] A box iron was so named because of its shape, and because heaters (a piece of iron, which is made hot and placed in a cavity in a box-iron, smoothing-iron, tea-urn, etc.) could be placed in it. ❋ Unknown (1733)
