The opening was barred, but he easily wrenched the irons from their rotted fastenings and crawled through the opening.
"Leo the Circus Boy"
Ralph Bonehill
I'll not put him in irons to-night unless you give me some better reason for your assertion.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
He should have been making connections, having irons in the fire, bustling about-how could he have sat down thus happily and easily for seven years, as though such a condition of things could continue for ever?
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole