They would cut through our manaclesas a knife cuts through wood.
These he gave out to some of the slaves, and on the night arranged they were to cut the links of their iron manacles and pass the tools on to the others.
If we could give the whole list of wrecks we should probably find it rival that of the Scillies, perhaps surpass; the Manacles lie even more directly in the route of navigation.
It is the spirit of worship that elevates the one and degrades the many; and manacles even its own hands.
He could not speak, but he unfastened Tom's manacles and threw them on the floor.
Then, by way of precaution, one of them clasped a pair of manacles on his wrists.
Whips, thumbscrews, and manacles of iron were far less helpful to it than the thraldom of the intellects of its hapless victims.
He could not answer her; much less could he Bid bind those slender wrists with manacles And send his sister to imprisonment!
I too wear chains, Am bond of conscience, heavier chains wear I Than these light manacles that bind the hands But leave the heart free and one's will one's own.
Quick as a hunting cat Foster leaped, struck with the manacles .
Between them Foster stood, the heavy manacles dragging at his wrists.
We passed sufficiently near the Manacles to distinguish their black heads standing with threatening aspect high out of the water.
A fine, bright morning found us outside the harbour, with the Manacles on our starboard bow, steering for the Lizard, which we hoped to round before noon, so as to reach Penzance that evening.
Making an effort to calm her, I try to approach, but a sudden jerk on the chain attached to my manacles causes intense pain in my arms, and a rough voice cries "Back.
And now a soldier seizes them, and drawing them behind my back, fastens heavy iron manaclesto my wrists.
On his wrists and ankles were cicatrices, old smooth scars, and fastened to the stone on which he sat was a chain with manacles and fetters attached; but this apparatus lay idle on the ground, and was thick with rust.
The king lifted his manacles and brought them down with a deadly force; but my lord was out of the way when they arrived.
Some of the advertisements of this class identify the fugitive slave by the scars, which the whip, or the manacles and fetters, or the rifle had made on his person.
Even now there approached a decurion with manacles thrown over his shoulder!
The flaring torch-light shone down on bowed heads and disordered garments, and showed fugitive glints of manacles and knives.
In the center stood Agrippa with manacles on his wrists and ankles.
Columbus as yet could hardly have looked forward to any such indignity as manacles on his limbs.
They crossed Lowland Point; no ship to be seen on the Manacles nor anywhere upon the sea.
The manacles behind him ground together with a cruel, rasping noise as this picture rose in his brain.
It was a vault-like apartment, and the roof was upheld in the centre by a stout pillar such as one sees in the crypts of churches, and suspended round this pillar were a pair of manacles and a leather belt.
Even the gentle and timid Petronella had more than once been fastened to the pillar for a time of penance, though the manacles and the whip had been spared to her.
Should Massachusetts hereafter, in an evil hour, be desecrated by any such decree, may the good Evangelist once more descend with valiant arm to break the manacles of the Slave!
In one day(144) the world hath become another world and the chains and manacles of prison and incarceration have been broken to pieces, and Abdul-Baha hath attained to the meeting of the Holy Threshold.
Do you believe that the loving father of us all, turned the dimpled arms of babes into manacles of iron?
Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and likemanacles on the right hand.
To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron.
Then he found the key of the leg irons, and soon all were free, and the manacles tossed down the hatch to be gathered up later.
But the irons he spread along the deck, and, while they cursed and maligned him, he replaced the silk and spun-yarn fetters with manacles of steel.
Looking into one of the carriages, Nekhludoff saw convoy soldiers taking the manacles off the hands of the prisoners.
The prisoners held out their arms, and one of the soldiers unlocked the manacles with a key and took them off; the other collected them.
Before the injured convict stood a convoy soldier, and a black-bearded prisoner with manacleson one hand and a look of gloom on his face, which he turned now to the officer, now to the prisoner with the little girl.
Bousovkin's manacles have been removed, and he is carrying his little girl himself.
As the little girl on her way out of the apartment passed nigh the chief, she stopped, and with childish impatience strove to take the manacles from his arms.
The soldier, now thoroughly awake, got upon his feet as quickly as his swollen ankles and the manacles on his wrists would permit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "manacles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
