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Iron Duke

noun

British general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo; subsequently served as Prime Minister (1769-1852). Synonyms: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, First Duke of Wellington, Wellington.

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... his own amusement as for ours. He was terribly severe on Parliament, which he described as "endless babblement and windy talk—the same hurdy-gurdies grinding out lies and inanities." The only man he had ever heard in Parliament that at all satisfied him was the Old Iron Duke. "He gat up and stammered away for fifteen minutes; but I tell ye, he was the only mon in Parliament who gie us any credible portraiture of the facts." He looked up at the portrait of Oliver Cromwell behind him, and exclaimed with great ...

— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

... have followed this funeral be kind to the stranger that is within our gates? The quiet old gentleman standing so gravely over the fosse commune might have attracted more regard from the angels than that Iron Duke who once looked down upon the sarcophagus of his enemy in the ...

— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend

Words linked to "Iron Duke" : Duke of Wellington, statesman, First Duke of Wellington, Wellington, solon, full general, general, national leader