Katharine, who had gone a few steps by herself down the road, and was investigating the window of an ironmonger, as if her mother might have got herself concealed among mowing-machines and garden-shears, turned sharply on hearing her voice, and came towards them.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
May Owen was the daughter of an ironmonger, whose premises were at the corner of the row, just above Uncle Bobo's shop.
"Little Miss Joy"
Emma Marshall
Drink another glass of wine, and don't be offended at my suspicion; after all, it was only a natural conclusion; we could find no traces of the caldron, and the ironmonger wanted to be paid for it, and said you had taken it away.
"St. Peter's Umbrella"
Kálmán Mikszáth