He stared down at his ankles, which also were throbbing agonisingly--to learn that they were confined in gyves attached by a short chain to a ring in the floor!
At the coming of that thought, the foul doing to death of the fearless Frenchman, he gnashed his teeth savagely and strained at the gyves until the pain in his ankles brought out beads of perspiration upon his forehead.
Calling the parties before him, he bade his lictors prepare stones and knives, at which they were much exercised in their minds, the severest tortures allowed by law being merelygyves and fetters.
And yet of these Love's chains are made, The only bonds that can, As iron gyves the body, thrall The free-born soul of man.
Oh, what are the chains of Love made of, The only bonds that can, As iron gyves the body, thrall The free-born soul of man?
He had three lives; but the third smiting would make an end of him indeed; and with that his house of sorcery would vanish, the gyves fall, and the villagers take hands and dance like children.
The wearing of gyves (they said) was no command of Jupiter's.
If the gyves are to fall," said he, "I must go through with this, and when I get home I shall find my uncle dancing.
I am held to this horde of cut-throats by gyves invisible yet unbreakable!
He next twisted the heavy gyvesround and round, and partly by main strength, partly by a dexterous and well-applied jerk, sapped asunder the central link by which they were attached to the padlock.
Linked in gyves I saw them stand, Love shackled with Vain-Longing, hand to hand.
I saw then in my dream that he went on thus till he came to a vale, where he saw three men in deep sleep, with gyves on their heels.
The leaden gyveshad fallen from her limbs, the leaden weight had lifted from her bosom.
This most Dishonest Person, however, did me unwittingly a trifle of good, and at all events saved me from Gyves and Stripes.
My legs befit not thegyves any more than thine own.
Stand and see Italy Cast the gyves she wears no more To the gulfs that steep her shore.
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?
If among the huge list of thy debtors, thou wilt, for my sake, spare the gyves and the dungeon to some unhappy Christian who stands in thy danger, I shall hold this morning's service to thee well bestowed.
Nevertheless, the gyves might be waiting for her out of sight; and with or without them, the place was horribly depressing that winter afternoon.
I sought to rise, and behold my limbs were bound, and the gyves were fine and frail, as the web of the gossamer, and they weighed on me like chains of iron.
And he cried out in terror at the thought that Fate might plan some trick to cheat him yet, after the years--the years of lost, lost life, spent as in gyves of iron.
Silently and methodically now, the men secured their prisoners and produced their gyves of heavy rope.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gyves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
