The agricultural workers in Italy in the latter days of {204} the Republic and the early Empire suffered frightful indignities; they would be chained at night to prevent escape or have half the head shaved to make it difficult.
This day we crossed a river prettily in a chained ferry-boat.
He seated himself on a chair covered with a white bearskin, waiting while the Boys, whose wrists were chained together, were dragged out of the hold and brought before him.
Jimmy Jocks was chained just behind me, and he said he never see so fine a show.
Dragged forth by that member, he had been chained up till he grew tame, and well flogged from time to time till further "civilized.
When we halted, as we occasionally did, though sometimes the halts seemed ages apart, he would join in the conversation, as would Ghak the Hairy One, he who was chained just ahead of Dian the Beautiful.
You might have known," she said, "when I did not run away from you that it was not hate which chained me to you.
Slowly the thing approached me, when its attention was attracted by a huge slave chained a few yards to my right.
Of the twelve prisoners who had been chained ahead of me each alternate one had been freed commencing with Dian.
With little ceremony Perry and I were chained at the end of the line, and without further ado the interrupted march was resumed.
But as we came closer, our hearts sank once more, for we discovered that the poor wretches were chained neck to neck in a long line, and that the gorilla-men were their guards.
Tell me about him, and why you ran away to be chained by the neck and scourged across the face of a world.
The water rose to the girl's knees, and still she advanced, chained by that clammy eye.
To one of these chambers my guard escorted me, and before leaving they chained me to a side wall.
A lad who calls himself Agias is chained in the ergastulum.
He was full of the fear that he would be taken from her and chained in a dungeon, and little Nell had great trouble in cheering him.
Brass became a convict, condemned to walk on a treadmill, chained to a long line of other evil men, and dragging wherever he went a heavy iron ball.
Barnaby where he lay chained in his cell and condemned to death.
I do not think he has mastery over himself, so as to help being unruly and idle, when he is chained to a spelling-book.
Without liberty, the brain is a dungeon, where the chained thoughts die with their pinions pressed against the hingeless doors.
If we thank him for liberty, the slave should raise hischained hands in worship and thank God that he toils unpaid with the lash upon his naked back.
They were chained and flogged, starved and killed.
What good man, having the power to prevent it, would allow the innocent to be imprisoned, chained in dungeons, and sigh against the dripping walls their weary lives away?
I stretched my arms toward him, and with his chained hand he contrived yet once more for to bless me; then was hurried out of my sight.
One house chained her attention and awoke in Madge personal thoughts again.
Time rolled on; the earth rolled on; only this conscious fragment of life stranded here between time and earth lay still, chaineddown with her load of grief and horror.
As Perseus looked down from his aerial height, he beheld the virgin chained to a rock.
A lunatic who was furiously mad and dangerous was required to be safely locked up or chained in his place of settlement.
How long do you think I should live if I were chained or caged up like that?
Sacred duty has chained me down to a life that was outwardly most sordid and unhappy.
The shield of this luxurious monarch is supported on each side by an angel habited, and beneath the shield by a white hart couchant, gorged and chained or, beneath a tree.
When they had marched past, Nero's chained lions and tigers were led by, so that, should the wish come to him of imitating Dionysus, he would have them to attach to his chariots.
She remembered the moment in which she had been lashed to the horns of the chained bull; and now, seeing above her the face of Vinicius, lighted by the mild rays of the lamp, she supposed herself no longer on earth.
All night long the prisoners werechained up, and in the morning they were yoked together like oxen and had to plough the land till it grew dark.
And in the city was a square tower, and on the roof of the tower was a rod of iron, and across the rod he laid a bottle, and on the bottle he placed an egg, and from the egg there hung chained an apple, which hangs there to this day.
