Gyves

Too, the gyves, sturdy and snug, looked nice on them, both from the aesthetic point of view and from the point of view of their significance, for example, that they were mine and that the beauty, confined, wore them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He kneeled beside the bed to fit the last key into the anklets, and the chains rang again their sharp, discordant peal as he opened the gyves and hoisted the irons aside, dropping the coil against the rock wall. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And he bound his hands with gyves, and is bringing that chieftain once so prosperous as a trophy hither, whose fortune now doth preach a lesson, clear as day, to all the sons of men, that none should envy him, who seems to thrive, until they see his death; for fortune's moods last but a day. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“It is from spiritual bondage,” said the preacher, in the same tone of admonitory reproof, “that I came to deliver you — it is from a bondage more fearful than than that of the heaviest earthly gyves — it is from your own evil passions.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Take chains and gyves with thee: for if the flood side not to a calm, there is no hope ❋ Unknown (2008)

History—the record of human error, cruelty and misdirected zeal—furnishes no more striking anomaly than the British Puritan fleeing from princely rule and tyranny and dragging at his heels the African savage, bound in servile chains; praying to a just God for freedom, and at the same time riveting upon his fellow-man the gyves of most unjust and cruel slavery. ❋ T. Thomas Fortune (2007)

Dost thou not remember the sick yeoman whom thy fair daughter Rebecca redeemed from the gyves at York, and kept him in thy house till his health was restored, when thou didst dismiss him recovered, and with a piece of money? — ❋ Unknown (2004)

Here is in our prison a common executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if you will take it on you to assist him, it shall redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have your full time of imprisonment and your deliverance with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a notorious bawd. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Sleep well,” said Elizabeth kindly, as I curtsied, and kissed those slender, jeweled, perfectly manicured fingers or gyves. ❋ Fiona Buckley (2000)

But at that moment Rebecca emerges from the twisted gyves and fetters of metal. ❋ Picoult, Jodi, 1966- (1992)

He thought,/have taken people's confidences and used them to fasten gyves round their wrists. ❋ James, P. D. (1988)

My hands were still numb from the gyves; I rubbed my wrists as I spoke. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1987)

He rummages around through inquisitional props, gyves, thumbscrews, leather harness, before coming up with a miniature cat-o'-nine-tails, a Black Forest elves 'whip, its lacquered black handle carved in a bas-relief orgy, the lashes padded with velvet to hurt but not to draw blood. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)