In the center of a circle of curious onlookers, a large man wearing a marshal's badge was slipping a pair of handcuffs on the wrists of a slender boyish-looking young fellow.
As soon as the little negro had gone, Charley brought out a pair of handcuffs from his grip and placed them in his pocket.
The appeal touched the pride of the officer, who dropped the handcuffs into the side pocket of his coat.
The sympathetic youth replied: "It is all right, officer, though we should have felt different if you had put those handcuffs on us.
Then he held out his hands to the second mate, who snapped the handcuffs on his wrists.
And as Tessa lay back with her dark head pillowed against the bosom of the native girl, and sobbed as she thought of her lover lying in the deck-house with the handcuffs on his wrists, Maoni pressed her lips to those of her mistress.
The following day, about ten o'clock in the morning, a man in a derby hat and with a pair of handcuffs in his outside pocket showed Muffles a paper he took from his coat, and the two went off to the city.
Laming presented a horse-pistol and said he would blow his brains out if he uttered a word, and the mate slipped a pair of handcuffs on his wrists.
Captain Massey did not like to venture on shooting us off-hand, so at last he told the constables to put up their handcuffs and start with us for Hobarton.
We could see they were really afraid, so we took off the handcuffs and gave them back the carbines.
Let me go to my own cabin, and let me have these handcuffs off," pleaded the prisoner.
He was taken to his own cabin, the handcuffs removed, and the cashier threw himself upon his bed, while the deputy marshal took a seat where he could watch his man.
Put these handcuffs on the fellow before he comes to," ordered Tom, going to his desk and taking out a pair of manacles.
A man with no more nerve than you have should not try to loot a bank," growled the officer, as he snapped handcuffs onto the wrists of the seemingly palsied wretch.
He was able to do that much, for Mr. Costigan, following the usual course in such cases, had removed the handcuffs after depositing the prisoner in the brig.
Oh, if I had my revolver and handcuffs and leg-irons here.
Well, you see, it's the regular thing to put a man into the dungeon that's up for murder, and to put handcuffs on.
Mason was barely acquainted with Tom, but he was shocked to see the fine-looking fellow in handcuffs as he came to the door, blinking his eyes at the light, and showing a face which wounded pride and anxiety had already begun to make haggard.
The man had handcuffs on and he is quite quiet now.
He stood pale and trembling while they put the handcuffs on him, and let them take him away without any resistance.
So it was thought best Si shouldn't carry the keys, nor the handcuffs which belonged to the town.
It was midnight before we took off hishandcuffs and shoved him in.
So we slipped thehandcuffs on him and took him back and locked him into the calaboose again.
So the next Sunday night when the hired girl wasn't looking, Squint sneaked the keys and the town handcuffs out of the drawer in the kitchen table where the knives and forks were kept.
While Isom was eating and talking with Mrs. Clarkson, Mr. Clarkson appeared at the kitchen door with a pistol in one hand and handcuffs in the other.
When he saw the pistol and handcuffs in Mr. Clarkson's hands, those large eyes of his were stretched so wide, one could see the white, like great sheets in them.
I have a few handcuffs of my own to get rid of," he said, "and it makes me poor company.
This is Houdini getting out of his handcuffs before an audience entirely composed of policemen.
I've put handcuffs on more than one poor devil for whom I've had nothing but sympathy.
I sought, furtively, to move my arms, only to realize that, as I had anticipated, the handcuffs were chained to a ring in the wall behind me.
But they were not yet in my possession; moreover, the key of the handcuffs might not be amongst the bunch.
If you look outside," said the owner of the snuffbox, "we'll have to put handcuffson you.
The policemen then saw fit to put the handcuffs on me.
You can feel how you like," John Dory answered bluntly, "so long as I get the handcuffs on Spencer Fitzgerald's wrists!
The handcuffswere of that type which tightens with pressure as the lock tumbler slides over a series of notches.
I went to the grated shutters and threw the key to the handcuffs out.
After awhile Dawson took me up stairs, and just before he closed the door, I pleaded that my handcuffs be removed, since one wrist was badly galled and lacerated.
Pendar reached out and taking his scorched garment quietly put it on himself, but in the act of doing so he gave proof of his professional deftness by slipping a pair of handcuffs on his prisoner before he suspected the trick.
On his wrists were handcuffs and his clothing was in shreds, revealing quite a muscular body.
My son-in-law hasn't done anything and he's got handcuffs on!
Mr. Cooke, do you happen to have any handcuffs on the Maria?
It's either that or I'll put the handcuffson you--make your choice.
He led his prisoner into the kitchen, where the stove was burning, and, laying his carbine on the table, he loosed the handcuffs and bade the man take off his long coat.
Two pairs of new, shining handcuffs and a new badge, appropriately labeled, completed the civic improvements in the way of law and order.
I'll keep my eye on you two old codgers," he soliloquized, thoughtfully feeling of the handcuffs in his pocket.
Tex emerged from his cover, a Colt in one hand, a pair of shining handcuffs clinking from their short chains as they swung from the other.
Tex slipped a pair of handcuffs over his wrists and ordered him to sit down.
I think Cockran is fully persuaded that I am helping him to snap the handcuffs on to your wrists.
Pistols usually begin the string of impossibilities and a convenient pair of handcuffs is at the end.
He allowed himself to be handcuffed by any policeman present who would fetch a pair of Government handcuffs for the purpose; these were locked, and the key retained by the constable or some other member of the audience.
I told you this morning Drew would have handcuffs on him before night," he replied, without raising his head.
Drew will wind thosehandcuffs on him like tourniquets," he laughed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "handcuffs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
