In England they call a hardware store and ironmongery. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In one corner lay some ironmongery of dubious aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Grave diggers are a bit like Chefs... we like ou ironmongery. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in G major] Reference
A packed and wide road led left off the main road and to the ironmongery. From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
The fists and what they held in the way of ironmongery were doing a lot of damage. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Cert]
We lived behind doors with triple locks, some like engines of medieval ironmongery. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Sammler's City] Reference
Cool concrete floors, and benchtops sit alongside teak cabinetry and custom-made bronze ironmongery. From Wordnik.com. [The Parsley House by Tobias Partners] Reference
I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin – nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Carol] Reference
Let alone iron grates in the fireplaces, the stove and implements in the kitchen all the ironmongery in the furniture!. From Wordnik.com. [The Gates Of Sleep]
About 2,300 stalls are piled high with a goods ranging from ironmongery and ceramics to wet noodles and live chickens. From Wordnik.com. [City Walk: Ho Chi Minh City] Reference
We were in a street filled with sound and ironmongery, scrolled iron balconies and music bands milling away in every doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
The British dream of the next definitive war seems to have involved a torrent of this ironmongery tearing triumphantly across Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
So does the ironmongery — candle – boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries — because those things tell, and mount up. From Wordnik.com. [David Copperfield] Reference
It was easiest to accept my explanation that the ironmongery was heirlooms and that my poor friend, besides being stunted, was deaf-mute. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Luna]
And Mr. Cavalcadour did so, dashing down, with the rapidity of genius, a tremendous list of ironmongery goods, which he handed over to Mrs. Timmins. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Dinner at Timmins’s] Reference
One of the outstanding successes of the night was the arrest of a man from Bronkhorstspruit on suspicion of the theft of ironmongery to the value of R660 000. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It took two days to finish the loading: barrels of salt, bolts of cloth, huge crates of ironmongery that had to be lowered with rope slings because of their weight. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
They brought with them new ideas and technology, most importantly the notions of exclusive access to land and the concept of fixed boundaries, as well as ironmongery and guns. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
And not just bricks and mortar, even on the ironmongery. From Wordnik.com. [Desicritics] Reference
All of them carried about as much ironmongery as the Prime. From Wordnik.com. [Uller Uprising] Reference
But now they go to see about settling the matter with ironmongery. From Wordnik.com. [The Rising of the Court] Reference
I made one last desperate turn and found myself among lamps and ironmongery. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Man] Reference
Little Frau's father was a well-to-do burgher with a prosperous ironmongery in the "Petit Brul.". From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Carol] Reference
Almoayyed and Abloy showcase architectural ironmongery solutions to contractors and interior designers in Oman. From Wordnik.com. [AMEinfo.com Latest News] Reference
Almoayyed and Abloy showcase architectural ironmongery solutions to contractors and interior designers in Oman. From Wordnik.com. [AMEinfo.com Latest News] Reference
A good deal of room was also wanted for the provisions regularly fetched from the town, -- grocery, ironmongery, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894] Reference
No; but you can't turn round without finding some policeman or other at your elbow -- look at them, abominable ironmongery!. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
The prime minister said his bike was a sophisticated piece of ironmongery and addressed the show's participants as brothers. From Wordnik.com. [RIA Novosti] Reference
Some of the chiefs, enjoining silence, made short harangues, and Cook began the usual distribution of ironmongery and hardware. From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
There I lay amid the most vociferous mirth I ever listened to, under the confounded torrent of ironmongery that half-stunned me. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference
"Why do you bring all that ironmongery down here?" she inquired, with frankly childish curiosity, leisurely wringing out her linen. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarians] Reference
Nicholas White, yon big man yonder, that toppeth most of his neighbours, hath an ironmongery shop a-down in the further end of the village. From Wordnik.com. [All's Well Alice's Victory] Reference
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