Manacles

What that means was that when the end of that session of court came, Mr. Hall, instead of being out on bail and going home, would go to jail and would be brought down the next day in manacles and be in manacles, and go back to jail the next night. ❋ Unknown (1958)

He should have had to sit on stage in manacles. pseudonymous in nc Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

His manacles were a constant, a twenty-four-hour-a-day weight his body grudgingly accepted in spite of the rawness and swelling caused by the dig of unforgiving metal. ❋ Taylor, Laura (1988)

Noting the "manacles" and advocating them are two different things. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, it is always fascinating to read how regular defenders of dictatorships (like the kapitein) want to tell the US how the removal of an atrocious tyranny actually should be done with "manacles". ❋ Unknown (2009)

"manacles," "leg-irons," etc., etc. "Pistols" (brass) appear in early inventories, but their absence in the early hand-to-hand encounter at ❋ Azel Ames (1876)

"manacles," or poles with leathern yokes, and driven through the city streets by a band of forty boys. ❋ Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1874)

Nobody has yet devised the manacles that can hold him, not even the church. ❋ Richard Schiffman (2011)

"It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition." ❋ Deepak Chopra (2011)

In her diaphanous gown, she looked remarkable hanging face down 8.3 feet above the ground with thin but powerful manacles around her waist and arms linked to the robotic limbs and with the camera-invisible plastic face mask clamped on tight. ❋ Marc Horne (2011)

The Little Peco, strengthened by the multitudinous streamlets, rose against the manacles of winter, riving the ice with crashings and snappings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hitchens dismisses every spiritual person out of hand, which means that he dismisses William Blake the source of his phrase, "mind-forged manacles," which Blake applied to modern industrial life, not religion in the same breath that he dismisses Bible Belt preachers. ❋ Deepak Chopra (2011)

The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion. ❋ Deepak Chopra (2011)

This linked pair of adamantine masterwork wrist manacles and ankle fetters traditionally has the symbol of Abadar stamped deeply on each of its four cuffs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I did, truth began to enlighten me, providing the freedom to cast aside my debilitating manacles. ❋ Jack Watts (2011)