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    1. she fell, then hauled her back by the chain still fastened to the shackle on her leg


    2. I could even see large, spiked, infernally hot chains, the ones meant to shackle me where I stood


    3. Raul had been freed of his shackle to help dispose of the cocaine, although his left arm was far too painful to move and hung useless in a sling


    4. Phil the FAC had set his code wheel to the Shackle code of the day and easily found the opposing letters to answer the challenge


    5. I was too agitated to rest and the shackle prevented me from pacing


    6. ” She said nothing as I stood up and held out the shackle


    7. In addition, there was much rope material cut into lengths appropriate to bound and shackle a kitty


    8. have to bound and shackle you


    9. When he eventually freed himself from the shackle, he went over to the


    10. The individual type was a kind of shackle put on the feet; the collective type consisted of one chain about 30 metres long,

    11. They put a sort of shackle on my ankles and I was handcuffed the


    12. Shackle the prisoner and place him in a tent


    13. vinity liberates and the demoniacal state acts as a shackle, you have no need to grieve for you are blessed with divine riches


    14. Having revealed that the deeds of the libertines are that which shackle them and that nothing of their actions is neglected, the Almighty wanted to refute their pretense of that the believers deprive themselves of pleasure and bliss when they abstain from giving their spirit its whim or succumbing to its desire


    15. In essence, if money interbreeds enough, one could generate enough virtual vapors to shackle and lock the entire actual world, without having ever produced a single meal that could be consumed, a house lived in, or a warm winter coat


    16. ” Sharee moved and the chain slid with her, not as shackle, but like braid


    17. But the moment he releases himself from its shackle, he will dispose of the greatest obstacle standing in his way to God, and there the truth will appear clearly to him without any veil


    18. internal conscience of my soul will handcuff and shackle me once again, as


    19. She did not notice when he placed a padlock on the shackle and yanked it to make sure it was secure


    20. He smelled the alcohol, sweet and thick on the man’s breath, as the mercenary yanked upon the neck shackle, nearly dragging the boy out the door

    21. Renoir yanked him viciously off his feet by the neck shackle, choking the alarm from him before it had a chance to escape


    22. He plunged face first into the snow, failing to catch himself as his hands clawed at the shackle, trying desperately to protect his throat


    23. He started to object but was immediately, mercilessly hoisted by the shackle about his neck


    24. that shackle the spirit


    25. And none will shackle as He shackles


    26. You are worth more to me than anything in my long years, and if I have to shackle myself to you for all eternity, I would, and gladly


    27. No shackle, no fetter, no prison can lock a child of God away from the love of God


    28. I notice now that it has dark red sheets on it and a shackle at each corner


    29. And a child with no father would shackle her to the tainted fortune she planned to give up as soon as her acting would support her


    30. But aren't you mistaken in thinking that you wouldn't force him, wouldn't punish him? Don't you shackle him with your love? Don't you make him feel inferior every day, and don't you make it even harder on him with your kindness and patience? Don't you force him, the arrogant and pampered boy, to live in a hut with two old banana-eaters, to whom even rice is a delicacy, whose thoughts can't be his, whose hearts are old and quiet and beats in a different pace than his? Isn't forced, isn't he punished by all this?"

    31. Shackle sedition? But God is great! He gives


    32. Long experience of a systematic design in that government to shackle our commerce and subject it to their arbitrary restrictions, leaves no room to doubt of their disposition to pursue that design until the conduct of this Government should convince them of its total inefficacy to produce the object sought for


    33. How could France be distressed by the British interdiction of her foreign commerce, when France herself was hostile to that commerce—when she adopted every measure to narrow, to shackle, and ultimately to exclude it? We had even strong evidence that British statesmen began to waver on the subject


    34. When I offered you that resolution, I did hope, and I did believe, that it would have received the immediate attention and unanimous approbation of this House; that regardless of those punctilios which too often shackle the best intentions, and do injury to the best causes, and in compliance with the sentiments and feelings of the nation, we should have immediately expressed our own, thereby giving force to that expression, and have rendered that tribute which is justly due to undaunted valor, and to modest merit; that we should have declared our admiration, and the high sense we entertain of the gallant conduct of the defenders of their country's flag, and the defenders of her rights, and while we gave to some testimonials of our approbation, we should have yielded to all that which is justly due


    1. She hadn’t explained how Nerissa was to do this while shackled in the byre


    2. Tragus shackled Nerissa to the post each night


    3. Thankfully they had not been shackled together as it had initially seemed from a distance, but were bound simply at the wrists


    4. Their blades stayed fixed in their hands and their feet remained planted on the earth, anchored and restricted as though shackled by invisible irons


    5. They were shackled by the


    6. I wonder today if the growth in militancy of the far right-wing did not gain momentum from that siege, when they realised we were shackled and not about to deal with them as harshly as we dealt with black protesters in the past


    7. Beloved, The Thief has entered the house, and will steal away all who are willing and not tied, nor fastened down, nor shackled to the house


    8. Bits of raw flesh were still hanging off the tool of torture, the man shackled to the wall limp, probably passed out


    9. Ursempyre stirred somewhat, unable though to move his feet shackled as they were


    10. arms were shackled and chained behind her back, her legs to the metal floor

    11. Lifting her shackled hand to her forehead she rubbed her throbbing head


    12. It now became clearly apparent to Moshe, as he was being shackled, that they had been added to a line of prisoners who were meant to be moved, but to where? He cried out in his resistance, “What’s going on? Where are you taking us? Where’s Youssaf, the king’s courier


    13. His ankles and wrists were each shackled with a metal ring


    14. Even his neck was shackled


    15. Who did this to him? Why is he shackled? I wondered


    16. "They are shackled by their own lusts


    17. It now became clearly apparent to Moshe, as he was being shackled, that they had been


    18. since her fear would keep her just as shackled as Tobias had done


    19. But why? Why does it have to be this way?! He’s happy just with the girls, he doesn’t want to have to be shackled to a woman and children; it’s nothing more than stupid tradition


    20. Shackled and chained is not how you shall remain

    21. YOU MUST ALWAYS BE IN CONTROL!” Chris felt himself mentally handcuffed, patted on the head and shackled to a heart made of stone


    22. He let James and Marianne out of the car, still shackled together and ushered them into the boathouse…


    23. But there was considerable slack in the chains that shackled his wrists, and before the bullet-shaped head could be withdrawn out of reach, the king gathered this slack in his mighty hand and smote the black on the head


    24. As the column made its way along the narrow streets, people emerged from their homes to stare at the cold and pale, lean intruder shackled and perched uncomfortably on a horse


    25. Past shackled to my battered, brave heart


    26. The Marines stripped them and shackled the men to the walls and the naked women to the tables in the center of the room


    27. Winthrop slowly and threateningly wandered the room stopping where Greg was shackled to


    28. 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


    29. Companies were shackled into bondage because of a lack of foresight and


    30. they arrest me and then take me to a shelter, bound and shackled

    31. was one stinking snitch for me to end up bound and shackled, and


    32. Man was shackled to the Earth, unable to experience the freedom of birdlike flight


    33. placed the shackled Jeremy in the saddle


    34. Jenkins followed his men into 301 and stood back in disgust as the naked Adrian Clements was placed in irons and shackled to a bedpost without knowing a thing about it


    35. He’d told his prisoner, when being shackled to him an hour before, that he loved to share


    36. What is to be expected when a child is taught at home and church, over and over again, that fantasy is reality? The effects are powerful enough to keep people shackled by intellectual immaturity for their entire lives it what can realistically be called life senctences of naïve ignorance


    37. The card of the devil shows our male and female characters shackled to


    38. weapons it contained, she'd be shackled hand and feet, instead of wearing the plastic cuffs they'd


    39. I was shackled to a bed


    40. Because I was shackled,

    41. Since Vinny's ankles were shackled to prevent him from


    42. When he was securely shackled he took a step forward


    43. The three men appeared, still shackled by their legs and to each other, surrounded by a guard of Warriors


    44. My ankles were also shackled to the front legs of the chair and I could barely move at all


    45. She could well imagine that Jack was probably shackled, naked, and scared out of his wits downstairs


    46. He shackled his ankles with weeds from the pool


    47. “They shackled your ankles?” he said


    48. “Even considering the circumstances, don’t you think this is a bit much?” Krane asked, looking at the shackled woman in the glass cell


    49. Yet that acquaintance which is not associated with spiritual witnessing or tasting cannot release the spirit’s shame of its sins to help it approaching its Provider, and since the unbeliever has not rendered any favor previously in his life on which he can rely to help his spirit draw near to its Creator, therefore you find them shackled by their shame and engaged in their pain


    50. Since the unbeliever has not rendered any favor in their previous life, on which they can rely as a means to help their spirit draw nearer to its Creator, you will find that they are shackled by their shame and absorbed by their pain











































    1. shackles and silver chains


    2. ” Lyla told Son as she unlocked his shackles


    3. He glanced at the rear view mirror and saw the chains and shackles


    4. Chains hung from the ceiling with shackles at their


    5. Instead he raised it to one of the shackles


    6. the four corners of the bed dangled with shackles at the end of them


    7. his attention focused on the dead man hanging from the shackles in the middle of


    8. Over time, her flesh decomposed and her bones turned to mush, even the shackles at her wrists and ankles fell away, the mere weight of them enough to tear through her festering limbs


    9. To dream that you are in shackles suggests that you are in a rut


    10. I know I should throw off the shackles of being human and become more than human

    11. Shackles bound Amaranthe’s wrists behind her back


    12. She stared at the knots, trying not to see her bindings as the shackles of failure, trying not to feel as if the last two weeks had been for nothing


    13. They put him in handcuffs and shackles


    14. Nothing short of the shackles on his feet prevented him from falling over the parapet of the tower to a well-deserved though ignominious death


    15. “That will depend,” said Nicole standing upright again and tossing the shackles away


    16. She never struggled, only scowled as Dacian chained her arms to shackles that


    17. They still hung from her body by the shackles as she gave a roaring howl, her face


    18. fur along the shackles of the chains hanging from her


    19. Desperation welled up inside of her, and she moved against the grip of her captors, as though she would tear her hands free from the shackles and run for the cover of the hills


    20. He took in the scene without a word and set to work at Virginia’s shackles

    21. Late that night, Lord Robert left the house in slightly damp trousers and shirt, with a shovel and the blood-rusted shackles


    22. A sufficient hole dug, Lord Robert dropped the shackles in and grimaced at the clanking sound they made in the darkness


    23. The man shook his arms and legs trying to break free from the shackles


    24. Ten minutes later, Pooh arrived at the station with an orange jumpsuit on and shackles on his wrist and ankles


    25. His mind tended to wander free from the shackles of the board and he'd catch himself thinking about Summers, wondering what was going on in her head


    26. ” He leaned forward and in a lower voice, “The only way one of them could use this stone would be to lease directly to it and that could prove very dangerous for you if one of them decided he wanted to throw off his shackles


    27. Without the giggles and mocking with which girls habitually draw attention to themselves, the boys lost inhibitions and calculated the river flow, mapped the stars, climbed rocky escarpments, skinny-dipped, used trigonometry to work out the height of hills and trees, held impromptu concerts, made up plays and, throwing off the shackles of convention, accepted my assertion that they'd enjoy participating in ‘free movement’ to the strumming of their teacher’s Spanish guitar


    28. Like all men who escape the shackles of marriage, no matter how briefly, inhibitions slipped away and he returned to the carefree state of premarital youth, unable to remember the last time he’d walked alone along streets where no one knew him


    29. I needn't explain to you the joy that courses through my very soul when I've helped to free the shackles of the mind that have been encased by any number of things


    30. Long since he had broken his shackles and now roamed at will among the tombs and abandoned sepulchres

    31. The feelings and sensations she had suppressed rose to domination in her now, as if the queenly robes she had cast off had been material shackles and inhibitions


    32. He shuffled across the concrete yard in his shackles and stood in line as the guards read them the rules


    33. No one stopped their work to watch me but stare they did as I shuffled along in my fine new suit marred only by the presence of the guards and my shackles


    34. In strong contrast stood Conan, grim, blood-stained, naked but for a loin-cloth, shackles on his mighty limbs, his blue eyes blazing beneath the tangled black mane which fell over his low broad forehead


    35. His limbs were free, but he knew that his shackles were beyond even his iron strength


    36. The sheer weight of his shackles would have slain a lesser man with exhaustion


    37. Conan tensed, unconsciously straining against his shackles in his abhorrence of dying like a sheep; then he was frozen by a greater horror


    38. Again the veins in his temples knotted as he strove to break the invisible shackles which crushed him down


    39. 'The keys to your shackles and to the farther door!' she whispered, and a slim white hand came through the bars and dropped three objects with a clink to the flags beside him


    40. Sailors leaping down into the waist to grapple or smite at the naked white giant hewing like one possessed at the shackles, found themselves dragged down by the hands of slaves yet unfreed, while others, their broken chains whipping and snapping about their limbs, came up out of the waist like a blind, black torrent, screaming like fiends, smiting with broken oars and pieces of iron, tearing and rending with talons and teeth

    41. The steel shackles fettering his legs and arms were real


    42. "Search him," cried the sergeant as someone unfastened the shackles around Travis's ankles and wrists


    43. That world helps us to escape from the shackles


    44. This experience is often that awareness being freed from the confines and shackles of the mind; it is being freed from the cell and therefore can perceive all that is taking place


    45. Have faith in yourself, do not rely on the faith others expect you to have on mere words and phrases that do nothing but often place oppressive shackles on your existence


    46. Shackles Of The Unjust, Their


    47. After the shackles came off a civilian elbowed his way


    48. The links in the chain that still spiritually shackles American Christians include white feelings of racial superiority, race and class segregation, the resulting racial divides, rejection of the Bible and the Gospel as oppressive white doctrine, and finally, the persistent demobilization of African Americans for world missions


    49. other words, all the shackles and cuffs were off


    50. shackles caused major skin abrasions and ripping














































    1. With that, the rotten-hearted Man and Halfling trudged off and began shackling the younglings back to the harness, including Cheeryup and Rowdingle Parfinn


    2. McCone, DCI (Director Central Intelligence Agency), had told SecState Dean Rusk and SecDef Robert McNamara that he had grave misgivings about sending American men into ground battle while shackling the use of air power up North


    3. Shackling lines move so fast workers have to hustle to keep the line full


    4. ” then in twain and twain and twain again, exponentially branching without end into people linked together forging a chain shackling Eartheart to each purchase


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    Synonyms for "shackle"

    bond hamper shackle trammel fetter pinion encumbrance obstruction chain manacle handcuff iron confine restrain restrict slow dull

    "shackle" definitions

    a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)


    a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar


    bind the arms of


    restrain with fetters