iron-fanged

Updated: May 23, 2025

Here and there were growing things, but they were grey with desert dust and looked dead, greasewood dwarfed and wind-twisted, iron-fanged cacti snarling at the clear hot sky and casting no more shade than lean poles. 'A man won't find his trail all cluttered up with folks in here, thought Howard. 'Wonder who was the last man to poke his fool nose into this bake-oven. Whew, it's hot.

Jackson Gregory - The Desert Valley

In addition he had had to defy the Brahman priests who, all unwilling, are the strong supports of alien overrule; for they are armed with the iron-fanged laws of caste that forbid crossing the sea, among innumerable other things. Perhaps there was a hint of moral bravery behind the warrior eyes that was enough in itself and she really fell in love at first sight, as men said.

Talbot Mundy - Guns of the Gods