Ironsides

How To Use Ironsides In A Sentence

• the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'
• Cromwell's Ironsides and a long-faced, high-hatted Puritan cavalry-man, both on horseback, and a third on foot, with _musquetoon_ on shoulder. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
• His books lack the extempore felicities and the reflected fellow-feeling which lent a charm to his spoken sermons; and on the table-land of his controversial treatises, sentence follows sentence like a file of ironsides, in buff and rusty steel, a sturdy procession, but a dingy uniform; and it is only here and there where a son of Anak has burst his rags, that you glimpse a thought of uncommon stature or wonderful proportions. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
• They tell the story (an amalgam as absorbing as calzium chloereydes and hydrophobe sponges could make it) how one happygogusty Ides-of-April morning (the anniversary, as it fell out, of his first assumption of his mirthday suit and rights in appurtenance to the confusioning of human races) ages and ages after the alleged misdemeanour when the tried friend of all creation, tigerwood roadstaff to his stay, was billowing across the wide expanse of our greatest park in his caoutchouc kepi and great belt and hideinsacks and his blaufunx fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberised inverness, he met a cad with a pipe. Finnegans Wake
• Cromwell's Ironsides and a long-faced, high-hatted Puritan cavalry-man, both on horseback, and a third on foot, with _musquetoon_ on shoulder. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
• What about sanctimonious Cromwell and his ironsides that put the women and children of Drogheda to the sword with the bible text GOD IS LOVE pasted round the mouth of his cannon? Ulysses
• Just as in the days when Old Ironsides sailed the seas victorious with her hempen shrouds and hempen sails. Robbie Gennet: On Role Models and their Bongs
• As far as a modern USS Constitution (old 'ironsides') to blast a broadside and solve the problem of these pirates, please reread my March 25, 2007 OEN article, "With their own Rope" by How To Deal With Pirates (American, not Somalian)
• He turned and looked at his staff, then the picture of Old Ironsides behind him. BALANCE OF POWER
• This Mercy was granddaughter to one of Cromwell's ironsides, and brought her rare personal merit into their house, and also the best blood of the old Puritans, than which there is no blood in Europe more rich in male courage, female chastity, and all the virtues. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866