And all that time stood Rosamund Page, with pinioned arms and face Bandaged about, on the turf marked out for the party's firing-place.
Not merely were Glaucon’s arms pinioned by a stout cord, but the great Libyan was gripping them tightly.
Glaucon, bounding back, “Seuthes, by every god, and pinioned like a felon.
Phormio and Lampaxo walked, closely pinioned and pricked on by the captain’s dagger.
On either side of him sat as villainous a brace of mongrel Portuguese or Spaniards as ever infested the high seas; and his arms were pinioned by a stout cord to the bolt above the transom.
At the door a gag was put into his mouth, a cap was pulled down over his eyes, and his arms were pinioned to his side.
Moor, and Judar replied, "I pinioned their hands behind them and cast them into the lake, where they were drowned, and the same fate is in store for thee.
Ghul on the flat of the ribs with his mace, whereupon he fell to the ground, insensible, and loosed his grip on Sahim; nor did he come to himself ere he was pinioned and shackled.
Around him like a hurricane of hail The pinioned shafts with aim unerring sped, Bearing dark death upon their feathery wings.
Two sinewy bronze arms darted from the window and pinioned Hal from behind in a vise-like grip.
It is a long sombre room, with two windows sunk in the stone wall, and here the wretched men are pinioned on the mornings of their execution, before moving toward the scaffold.
Previously these have been pinioned to prevent their flying away, and they cannot leave the lake.
Here, on the South Acre Decoy, a pair of captured birds were pinioned and turned down, until now, these having bred and attracted others, it is computed that between fourteen and fifteen hundred birds are on the water.
The common men were imprisoned at Chester and Liverpool, the noblemen and considerable officers were sent to London, conveyed through the streets pinioned like malefactors, and committed to the Tower and to Newgate.
They were overtaken by a body of horse, persuaded to submit, brought back to London pinioned like malefactors, and tried for desertion.
It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that the Aghas, having bound Alaeddin in bonds andpinioned his elbows behind his back, haled him in chains and carried him into the city.
This apparatus was so pinioned that it could not possibly move till, by casting off the magazine from the vessel, it was set in motion.
In a few minutes the corporal laypinioned on the ground, uttering loud curses and threatening them with public exposure.
But before he could draw the triggers, the pistols were wrested from his grasp by the two attendants, who had quitted Thorneycroft, and stolen upon him unperceived, and who next pinioned his arms.
A cry of despair went up from the pinioned men, but Kurzbold shouted: "Cut him down, Ebearhard, and then release us.
The great white city rested on the brown and pale green landscape of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains like pinioned birdwings, brooding over the nest of mighty enterprises.
He gloried in her beauty, for he loved all things beautiful and perfect of their kind; and he noted each gracious charm of face and form as he pinioned her arms down that he might hold her from fleeing away from his loving possession.
I now noticed an elderly man of very respectable appearance, who was not pinioned like the rest.
I soon noticed that a part were well armed, which was not the case with the rest, for they were pinioned in such a manner that they could scarcely move hand or foot.
The Abbot spoke a word or two to the monks, and they advanced to the pinioned men and there performed the rites sacred to their office and to the serious situation of the penitents.
As Wilhelm was brought to a stand before this assemblage, the Freigraf nodded his head and the guards in silence undid the thongs which pinioned together wrists and elbows, leaving the prisoner absolutely unfettered.
When this was done, the Baron stood back from the pinioned victims and addressed them: "It is not my intention that you should die without having time to repent of the many wicked deeds you have doubtless done during your lives.
Count, sternly, as he looked upon the pinioned lad.
I purpose if your lordship agrees to leave our bound captives where they are, guarded by a sufficient number of outlaws, in case one attempts to help the other, until we have pinioned those of Cologne and the Count Palatine.
My Lord, the officer in charge says that a short time ago the door of the house was blown open as if by a strong wind; four men rushed out and another was captured in the garden; all were pinioned and gagged, as you commanded.
Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to that time, taken a good look at the pinioned spy in the dark background of the tap-room.
The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked.
Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard behind the corner of the little Rue Mondetour that frightful pistol shot.
That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it can be dragged andpinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is sufficient to create consternation.
In the twinkling of an eye, before Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinionedand searched.
Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little entrenchment in the Mondetour lane.
His quick eye selected the one rail that was the key of the tangle, which, directed wrong, would sweep the mass with crushing force across the pinioned body of Ike.
But I had both timed and placed its fall, and before either one of that startled couple could make a move I had given a quick twist and roll along the dusty floor and caught up the fallen weapon in my own pinioned right hand.
As I pinioned her there, writhing and panting, I deliberately thrust my right hand into the open bosom of her gown.
This question met with a volley of jeers and execrations and the constables pinioned him, and bundled him off in a cart to Bow Street, to wait examination.
Once Griffin caught him with his locker door open and pinioned him against the benches while Douglas made free with his Petits-Beurres to the rest of the box-room.
Evidently she was primed with serious business; for Edwin could see that his father sat spiritually, if not physically, pinioned in the plush arm-chair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pinioned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
