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1. The first thing that James did after Wei bade them a cheery “goodnight” and locked them in, was to try to use one of the plastic knives on their wrist manacle – it proved to be totally useless, and there was nothing else available, so they were still stuck-together…it took them quite some time, being handicapped by their bound wrists, to assemble the stretchers and make their beds…
2. One corner of the concrete basement, with a mattress put directly on the concrete floor and with a long chain and manacle fixed to a wall hook, evidently served as a place of detention
3. “The manacle on the bed was more than a restraint
4. Enraged with the hollow rattle of his threats Ralf again lunged against the straps, his grunting efforts strangled by the manacle clamped tight around his throat, but soon he was spent, wheezing for breath and wielding nothing but empty words
5. There was a young man strapped to the metal table in the center of the chamber, with a copper manacle tightly clamped about his throat and beads of blood marking the circlet of barbed electrodes pressed through the flesh of his shaved scalp
6. He closed and locked the other manacle about the cast iron foot section of the bed
7. "We will start by having him stick his left foot and ankle out through the bars so that I can pin on the leg manacle," Olin informed the sheriff
8. Olin set the rail section in place beneath the criminal's ankle, closed the manacle around it and slid an iron pin up into the aligned pin barrels
9. The second chained manacle was closed around the man's right ankle, the pin inserted in place and its end peened over
10. With the man's legs crooked up to his chest Olin had enough play in the chain to allow the left hand manacle to be closed around the man's wrist and once again he inserted a locking pin and peened it tight
11. " The man did so without the need for the sheriff to count cadence and the last manacle was secured
12. "Quilstadt says that the trial will proceed at 10:00 AM and if you do one single thing to disrupt the court, or show disrespect, I am to manacle you and remove you from the courtroom
13. They fixed a manacle around my left wrist, which had a light chain attached to it of about 4 feet in length
14. Incredibly, I watched the two servants lock a much wider manacle about the waste of my dancer
15. My manacle wasn’t tight and neither was hers, but neither of them were coming off
16. A guard rushed forward and unlocked the iron manacle around Krista’s ankle as pandemonium reined in the auction house
17. He looked across at me, and his eye appraised my watch-chain, and then he incidentally spat and said something to the other convict, and they laughed and slued themselves round with a clink of their coupling manacle, and looked at something else
18. A manacle was snapped to Hill’s wrist
19. We must recollect that centuries of civilization and Christian influences are behind Europeans and Americans, while the native African, converted and trained in his own land, has behind him only the few years of his own life separating him from the densest degradation of heathenism; the African born and converted in the West Indies has been a freedman only since 1840; and the American Negro was perhaps himself a slave, and his race had the shackles struck from their bodies only in 1863, while the fetters of ignorance and vice still manacle the minds and hearts of the mass
1. I was sat on the chair my manacled hands in front of me and then I was pinioned with straps across the chest and ankles I remember how fresh and clear the sun looked as it started its climb into the sky and how sweet the air tasted and the sound of every bird and insect seemed to be amplified
2. Her best friend, Wyll Underfoot, was walking with the rest of the manacled troupe, but his eyes were closed
3. “My feet! Untie them, quick!” He lay on his back and raised his feet to where Raul’s manacled hands could reached them
4. Manacles Party’! You know what manacles are? To be manacled is to be handcuffed,
5. A few metres away, manacled to a column, an innocent-faced girl submits to her many masters as they subject her to their masochistic experiments
6. With the others now manacled in the same manner behind Moshe, the captain stepped out at a brisk pace with the guards prodding and poking at them until they, within the line, learned how to keep up the pace without the added “encouragement
7. With the others now manacled in the same manner behind Moshe, the captain stepped out at
8. Mark grabbed the hand with his manacled fists and pulled him forward off balance then in a flash whipped his hands around the officer neck and used the manacles to break his neck
9. Andrei however, was not responding - he had sat down at the table and slumped forward, his head resting on his manacled arms…
10. True, the walls and floor were stone but he wasn’t manacled to it and he had a cushion on the cot
11. Where he was promptly manacled
12. “Will he be chained and manacled?” the doctor questioned
13. Wolf cradled his head in manacled hands, not easily
14. firmly in his manacled hands
15. ankles have been manacled to the floor
16. the main streets of Lhasa with her wrists manacled and a heavy
17. ” the jingle manacled Vere
18. She was manacled hand and foot
19. All the while she lay perfectly still, naked, manacled to the bed’s four corners
20. He was manacled and shackled, and there was a glass partition between them
21. Upon learning of the escape by telegraph he had visited with all of the businessmen of town asking that they quietly inform him if a stranger with only one good eye was asking after a person named Abraham Donworth, the alias that Olin had used when he manacled Hortmuller in his cell at the jail
22. ” His hand closed over Koke’s manacled hands and he jerked him along to follow him out of the ship’s hold
23. He was taken on board, and instantly manacled at the wrists and ankles
24. He sank with a deep groan on to the settee and buried his face in his manacled hands
25. “Can you tell them I’ll meet them out front?” At least this way he might avoid the indignity of being manacled in his own building, paraded before the neighbors
26. He sank with a deep groan on the settee and buried his face in his manacled hands
27. The convict, who was exiled by the Commune, had been carrying his little daughter all the way from Tomsk, where his wife had died of typhus, and now the officer ordered him to be manacled
28. The exile’s explanation that he could not carry the child if he was manacled irritated the officer, who happened to be in a bad temper, and he gave the troublesome prisoner a beating
29. One convoy soldier pulled away the girl, who was screaming desperately, while another manacled the prisoner, who now submissively held out his hand
30. And what seemed most surprising was that all this was not being done accidentally, not by mistake, not once, but that it had continued for centuries, with this difference only, that at first the people’s nostrils used to be torn and their ears cut off; then they were branded, and now they were manacled and transported by steam instead of on the old carts
31. She wept bitterly, evidently seeing for the first time that gray-haired man on the other side of the net, manacled, in a prison jacket, and with head half shaven
1. And you see those pointy rocks out there, half hidden by the waves? They're The Manacles
2. “Could you see that S/Sgt Drew gets these Sir and could you post the other letters on the table yourself?” He told me that he would take care of everything then he shook my hand as the Provost Major pulled a set of manacles out and secured my hands then we left the cell
3. Manacles Party’! You know what manacles are? To be manacled is to be handcuffed,
4. Guards opened the gate at the captain's behest and, once inside, the manacles were
5. Mark grabbed the hand with his manacled fists and pulled him forward off balance then in a flash whipped his hands around the officer neck and used the manacles to break his neck
6. The young policeman sagged to the ground gurgling for a moment before Mark used the same manoeuvre with the manacles and broke his neck too
7. Where they had parked the van was just around the corner from the main doors and out of sight of the general public so Mark had time to search the policemen and find the keys to the manacles
8. His first priority was to undo the manacles and free his hands which were lethal weapons in themselves
9. He marched Andrei over to the cottage where after cutting his wrists free, he made him change into rig-worker’s clothes, after which new manacles were applied and he then pushed him into the boathouse to join James and Marianne with a curt …’
10. He cut the manacles attaching Marianne to James and attached a new set to each of them separately, saying ‘I’m sure you’ll appreciate a bit of freedom now Mrs
11. Using his mini binoculars, he could see that the Oriental was busy securing the wrists of his three prisoners, to metal rings set into the floorboards of the platform, using plastic manacles
12. ‘No time for that now – we’ve got to get away before that Semtex explodes – move quickly!’ Rory snapped cursorily, hacking away their plastic manacles with a fishing knife and then they all piled into the speedboat hastily
13. The crowd of Jews cheered wildly when Herod Archelaus, without his customary gold crown and purple cloak, rode out of the palace under tight Roman escort, his hands shackled in iron manacles
14. She pictured the manacles of imprisonment on her wrists and ankles—a frightening thought
15. When Vyyn slowly woke up, with a sharp pain to her chin and jaw, she found herself suspended by chains and manacles to the vaulted stone ceiling of a dark basement room, with her feet off the floor and forcibly spread by chains attached to her ankles
16. Vyyn was crying uncontrollably from the continuous, intense pain from her wounds as the two jailers undid her manacles to carry her to the nearby stretching rack
17. The jailers roughly put her down on top of the rack, then tied her wrists and ankles to the manacles of the torture device
18. manacles that attached him to the metal hospital bed
19. Going to Nancy, he helped Louis undo the manacles that had held her and that had dug deep, bloody furrows around her wrists and ankles
20. I had mostly regained the use of my muscles so I followed him to the dungeon where he told me he was truly sorry to have to put the manacles on me but his master ordered it
21. By now, Crug had ripped the manacles from the stone, and thrown the troll-cross to the
22. to flee, but the manacles cut into his wrists and ankles, pinning him to
23. He was dead from the moment you took his manacles off
24. Any of the Wedding Sacrifices would have done for her, but it had taken her an eternity to steal a key to the manacles, and chance after chance had gone begging in the meantime
25. She pushed the door open (it was not the Family way to lock doors, as the only use they had for keys was for manacles)
26. had included a hundred pairs of manacles to accommodate any prisoners that
27. Do you have those manacles
28. removed the manacles and opened the door
29. years later the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles
30. Ownership creates poverty – this a universal social slavery, every profit a link in the chain, every profit maker a forger of manacles
31. Here the inchoate moans and rabid screeching tore at her soul; through the deep shadows she caught fleeting glimpses of captives chained to ankle posts or hanging limp from manacles
32. Opening the next drawer down he took out a prisoner's leg chain that had keyed manacles at both ends
33. He pushed the blanket aside at the foot of the bed to expose Hortmuller's left ankle and around it he closed and locked one of the manacles of the leg chain
34. Seeing the leg chain and manacles he deduced that his patient was a wanted man
35. Martinmon has agreed that for an appropriate fee to the railroad, you will forge hand and leg manacles with chains for a prisoner that will be transported by wagon to the Concord jail
36. There was only two days in which to forge the manacles so Olin set about the task immediately
37. When I set down the piece of rail as an anvil it is best if there is a second set of hands to steady the bandits limbs and the manacles upon it as I pound the pin to lock them
38. Olin gathered up the manacles with their chains, the pins and his hammer and stepped up onto the walkway
39. Olin stood up and stepped back, holding onto the wrist manacles that were linked by chain to the ankle manacles
40. The keyed manacles were placed around the wrists of the thugs, including Catkin's as he moaned in pain and continued to bleed from his wound
41. So even though Olin had merely performed a paid service for the town by installing the manacles, that act had evoked a murderous fury within Hortmuller
42. He ultimately decided the manacles were simply a weapon of demoralization
43. It was the key to the manacles
44. I tested the manacles that held my hands above my head in the darkened cell of the city’s dungeon
45. Her wrists were raw and bloody from the manacles, “She has two broken fingers that will need reset and taped together
46. "keep-friend" or "friend's foot," from which hung two irons reaching to his waist with two manacles fixed to them in which his hands were secured by a big padlock, so that he could neither raise his hands to his mouth nor lower his head to his hands
47. I may say, in short, that I took part in that glorious expedition, promoted by this time to be a captain of infantry, to which honourable charge my good luck rather than my merits raised me; and that day--so fortunate for Christendom, because then all the nations of the earth were disabused of the error under which they lay in imagining the Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman pride and arrogance were broken, among all that were there made happy (for the Christians who died that day were happier than those who remained alive and victorious) I alone was miserable; for, instead of some naval crown that I might have expected had it been in Roman times, on the night that followed that famous day I found myself with fetters on my feet and manacles on my hands
48. I can pry the rivets out but my spear is useless for cutting the manacles off his arms
49. With manacles and chains around his limbs
50. He simply stood there for a long while with the bubbles of rain breaking out in his whitened hair and manacles of rain jewels dripping from his wrists and his neck
1. The more freedoms you have the more you can own others by purchasing their freedom – DOU's silver chains of mortgage, loan and credit for necessity and its many manacling life-robbing accoutrements
