An instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg.
1The iron heel of Imperial Rome had ground individuality into the mire.
2Allaha is weary of Umballa's iron heel, weary of a vacillating council.
3The iron heel; so they would have it in preference to his friendship.
4There is nothing of the iron heel about either his methods or his manners.
5The big ones have their iron heel on our necks.
6Could the iron heel of despotism crunch such a spirit of liberty as that?
7The whole country, tired of war, crouched under the iron heel of the Puritan soldier.
8For more than four years Belgium suffered under the iron heel of the German invaders.
9They are fighting to get the whole world under an iron heel-tocrush-togrind-todestroy.
10Rome ground them under her iron heel, and where is the empire of the Caesars?
11For five years the prosperous Dantzig had lain crushed beneath the iron heel of the conqueror.
12Continuing his search Whitson found the iron heel-plate of a boot, and a small bunch of keys.
13All seems crushed beneath an iron heel.
14Beyond the enemy's trenches lies our country, devastated; our national life destroyed; our people under the iron heel of Germany.
15For one hundred and twenty years Palestine had been ground beneath the iron heel of Roman governors and Romanizing tyrants.
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