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The unnamed deserter from an unnamed conflict, an ironmonger’s son with only a rifle and a knife to protect him, walks across an archetypally Mediterranean landscape that is nothing less than the basin of European history itself.
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Nicholas Dames, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
That recurring ironmonger with the sick kid and ballsy wife grabs a cabbage in the feeding frenzy, but his family is going to need way more calories than that.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 21 July 2024
His closest brush with art school was lessons from a blacksmith who taught him to weld and forge iron, skills that would be essential to his art and enable him to support himself by working for ironmongers.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
Enter Thomas Newcomen, a Devonshire ironmonger who in 1712, built a house-sized engine that used steam and atmospheric pressure to pump water from mines.
—David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
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Nicholas Dames, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
That recurring ironmonger with the sick kid and ballsy wife grabs a cabbage in the feeding frenzy, but his family is going to need way more calories than that.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 21 July 2024
His closest brush with art school was lessons from a blacksmith who taught him to weld and forge iron, skills that would be essential to his art and enable him to support himself by working for ironmongers.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
Enter Thomas Newcomen, a Devonshire ironmonger who in 1712, built a house-sized engine that used steam and atmospheric pressure to pump water from mines.
—David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018
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“Ironmonger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ironmonger. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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