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Example sentences for "bound hand and foot"

  • What I saw when the glare left my eyes was O'mie stretched on the bare stones, bound hand and foot.

  • On their ponies, bound hand and foot, were wretched, terror-stricken women.

  • These, bound hand and foot, they staked out on the solitary Plains under the blazing August skies, while their tormentors rode gayly away to join their fat, lazy squaws awaiting them in the southland by the winding Washita.

  • I thought of O'mie, bound hand and foot in the Hermit's Cave, and like him, I wished that I might go quickly if I must go.

  • Gerald had it ready, and before very long their prisoner lay on the floor, bound hand and foot, and incapable of speech.

  • Calling her servants, she bade them thrust Judas into a deep dry cistern, where he lay, starving, bound hand and foot, for seven nights and days.

  • Godard was taken, bound hand and foot, placed on a miserable jade with his face to the tail, and so led to Havelok.

  • Five minutes later, both Dagg and his mate were bound hand and foot; and the second mate had been locked in his cabin, where he was fast asleep.

  • Knives were drawn from belts, and one of these was flourished in the face of the captain who still lay upon the deck, bound hand and foot.

  • Leaving Bannister still weak from fever, bound hand and foot, he came to me by night and talked in whispers.

  • Then Dan must be seized in his cell, bound hand and foot, and brought aboard.

  • Mastha Dan was no longer in prison, he had been kidnapped; four men and a boy had taken him by main force; bound hand and foot he had been carried through the mountains to a lonely place; and there at daybreak to-morrow he was to be shot.

  • Bound hand and foot as we are, we can expect nothing less than to fall, ere cock-crow, into the power of Satan.

  • It is not the prospect of passing the night in this damp hole, bound hand and foot, that chafes me to madness, and makes my very blood boil in my veins," resumed the young man after a pause.

  • It is mockery to talk of acting when one is bound hand and foot.

  • Peterkin and I flew to the rescue, the savages followed us, and in less than ten minutes the whole of our opponents were knocked down or made prisoners, bound hand and foot, and extended side by side upon the seashore.

  • Bound hand and foot in the pit I lie, And the wall about me is strong and high; Stronger and higher it grows each day, With maximum labour and minimum pay; And there is no ladder whereon to climb To a fairer world and a brighter time.

  • Bound hand and foot in the pit I lie While the pendulum swings and the days go by.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aniline black; ask your; bound book; bound coast; bound from; bound hand and foot; bound ships; bound together; bound train; boundary agreement; boundary demarcation; boundary line; can tell; cold alcohol; cream cheese; different authors; ecclesiastical jurisdiction; forest reserves; giving utterance; municipal borough; must remark; perpetual covenant; president and general manager; public speaker; sharp turn; white foam