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"Ironworks" Quotes from Famous Books

... only come into the hands of the son in his younger days, there is no telling to what he might have attained. He could have been owner of all the woodlands in the Lovsjoe district, had a shop at Broby, and a steamer plying Lake Loeven; he might even have been master of the ironworks at Ekeby. Naturally he found it difficult to excuse the father's careless business methods, but he kept ...

— The Emperor of Portugalia • Selma Lagerlof

... the States, and others, a young man named Alfred Vail became one of the spectators, and was deeply impressed with the results. Vail was born in 1807, a son of Judge Stephen Vail, master of the Speedwell ironworks at Morristown, New Jersey. After leaving the village school his father took him and his brother George into the works; but though Alfred inherited a mechanical turn of mind, he longed for a higher sphere, and on attaining to his majority he resolved ...

— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro

... railway between these two points," said he, "the country is dotted with ironworks and collieries. Of these, some are being worked and some have been abandoned. There are no fewer than twelve which have small-gauge lines which run trolly-cars down to the main line. These can, of course, be disregarded. Besides these, however, there are seven which have, ...

— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle

Words linked to "Ironworks" : workplace, plural form, work, plural