Lexicographical Neighbors of Ironness
Literary usage of Ironness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld (1920)
"Besides, the latter work has the thing hitherto lacking somewhat in the young
man's art—grandeur and severity and ironness of language. ..."
2. Studies in Poetry and Philosophy by John Campbell Shairp (1872)
"But what would this have achieved, had it not been backed by that moral strength,
that ironness of resolve ? It was this that enabled him to turn aside from ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"They indeed had small cause for merriment in this world ; their cast-ironness of
nature was, in their circumstances, desirable, and remains admirable. ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1845)
"... and after he had had his breakfast the colonel went to parade, just as though
nothing whatsoever had happened to disturb the equanimity of his ironness, ..."
5. The Courts of Europe at the Close of the Last Century by Henry Swinburne (1895)
"I seldom join a party of a feu- days but the company are surprised at my flow of
spirits, indifference and self-denial; much arising from an ironness of ..."
6. Postcommunism: Four Perspectives by Michael Mandelbaum (1996)
"The effectiveness of the state, after all, does not depend on the trouble it
causes its neighbors or the ironness of its fist but, on the contrary, ..."
7. Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld (1920)
"Besides, the latter work has the thing hitherto lacking somewhat in the young
man's art—grandeur and severity and ironness of language. ..."
8. Studies in Poetry and Philosophy by John Campbell Shairp (1872)
"But what would this have achieved, had it not been backed by that moral strength,
that ironness of resolve ? It was this that enabled him to turn aside from ..."
9. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"They indeed had small cause for merriment in this world ; their cast-ironness of
nature was, in their circumstances, desirable, and remains admirable. ..."
10. The Metropolitan (1845)
"... and after he had had his breakfast the colonel went to parade, just as though
nothing whatsoever had happened to disturb the equanimity of his ironness, ..."
11. The Courts of Europe at the Close of the Last Century by Henry Swinburne (1895)
"I seldom join a party of a feu- days but the company are surprised at my flow of
spirits, indifference and self-denial; much arising from an ironness of ..."
12. Postcommunism: Four Perspectives by Michael Mandelbaum (1996)
"The effectiveness of the state, after all, does not depend on the trouble it
causes its neighbors or the ironness of its fist but, on the contrary, ..."
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