Already his extended arms projected into the upper chamber and then something closed suddenly upon both his forearms, pinioning them tightly and leaving him hanging in mid-air unable to advance or retreat.
Now," he whispered and simultaneously he threw the rug over the woman's head and his two fellows leaped upon her, seizing her arms and pinioning her body while their leader stifled her cries with the furry pelt.
It was a wrestle with the animal, the vegetable thing, the pinioning of vicious tentacles.
He started from her, putting away her arms, yet pinioning her, holding her from him with a fierceness of final challenge and looking in the darkness into her darker eyes.
No sooner had I stepped to the threshold of the hotel than three policemen grabbed me--one pinioning my right arm, another my left, and the third gripping me by the back of the neck.
As for himself, with a policeman at his side, and two behind him pinioning Tower and myself, he was frantic with super-patriotic joy.
Laurence stepped aside just in time to avoid the open jaws, but too late entirely to escape the great flail-like tentacle, which swept him from his feet, right under the horror, pinioning for a moment his arms.
But in a moment Lindela's arms were around him, pinioninghis to his sides.
My impression is that two or three strong persons were engaged in the outrage, although the pinioning was performed by only one.
After the operation of pinioning had been gone through, at a few minutes before eight, the sheriffs, accompanied by their officers and the prisoners, proceeded towards the scaffold, the ordinary reciting part of the funeral service.
The customary ceremonies were here gone through, of pinioning the convicts; and the procession once more, and for the last time, resumed its march, going up the winding staircase to the top of the lodge on which the scaffold was erected.
The wretched Hunton, during the pinioning of his fellow-convicts, conducted himself with the greatest calmness and devotion.
After the operation of pinioning had been completed, the culprit, attended by the chaplain, walked steadily to the platform.
I am a strong believer in the infusion of fresh blood each year, and this is easily done by catching a few stranger drakes and pinioning them.
Then she twisted her white face around toward Sir Humphrey's, who stood pinioning her arms with a look himself as if he were dying.
By waylaying the stay-at-home geese at the time when the moult of the wing-quills disabled them for flight, Mr Waterton succeeded in securing and pinioning six of them, thus preventing their future departure.
The ingenuity of the draughtsman had even suggested improvements in the usual modes of execution, and had delineated drops, halters, and methods of pinioning on new principles!
All that the hangman, whoever he may be, does under the new regime is to unhook the halter and remove the pinioning straps.
When Charles White was executed in 1823 for arson, he arranged a handkerchief in such a way that the executioner found a difficulty in pinioning his hands.
Pinioning consists of cutting off the first joint of one wing.
Pat Rooney was sitting on his chest, his knees pinioning his arms, and clutching each of his broad shoulders with a vigorous hand.
As soon as the pinioningis done, a procession is formed, generally in the following order:-- Chief Warder.
After the completion of the pinioning process he still resisted the placing of the noose, throwing his head violently from side to side, and he continued his struggles until the drop fell.
The pinioning arrangement, like the rest of the arrangements for an execution, are very simple.
Even with this assistance I had the greatest possible difficulty in pinioning his legs, and while doing so I received a nasty kick which took a piece of bone out of my shin, and has left a mark visible even to-day.
The men stepped at once to their places and gave all the assistance they could in the final pinioning and in the adjustment of the nooses.
After pinioning him his face seemed still paler and his mouth worked convulsively as he strove to keep back his emotion.
He seemed to take a great interest in the pinioning process, and helped me as well as he could.
I have also two Pinioning straps made from his, also two leg straps.
At twelve minutes to eight o'clock the executioner, Calcraft, and his assistant, were introduced into the cell in which the prisoners were placed, and the process of pinioning their arms was gone through.
A blow from the butt of a German rifle knocked the driver of the second car from his seat as he swept past, and the machine, turning round and round, like a huge top, suddenly turned over, pinioning its occupants beneath it.
Before Hal could recover his composure, which had left him at being so suddenly accosted, the woman had thrown her arms around his neck, pinioning his hands to his side.
Then, when close to him, suddenly they threw themselves upon him, pinioning his arms so that he was helpless.
All the arrangements being completed, Calcraft began the process of pinioning the condemned man, who appeared to be quite calm.
He entered the room with a very faltering step, and when the ceremony of pinioning him commenced, he was so weak as to be scarcely able to stand.
At 6 minutes to eight the prison bell began to toll, the hour had scarcely struck before the outer door of the pinioning room opened and the procession issued into the inner court of the prison.
The warders conducted the men chained from their cells, and they were taken through the corridors to the pinioning room, where Calcraft commenced his duties.
The executioner was shortly afterwards introduced to the prisoner, who immediately commenced pinioning him.
Under the new Act of Parliament they are excluded from what was known as the pinioning room, and only see the very last scene of all, an alteration very agreeable to the feelings of gentlemen upon whom is imposed a most painful duty.
As it were intuitively the little crowd becomes aware of this, a whisper runs round among it that the bag contains his “tackle” of pinioning straps, &c.
The executioner then commenced pinioning the arms, which operation he quickly dispatched.
Calcraft, the executioner, was introduced, when the operation of pinioning was gone through.
When the operation of pinioning had been performed, the wretched man thanked the chaplain, the governor, and the other officials for their kindness.
He filled the air with curses while the pinioning was a-doing.
From the doorway Mr. Pratt had watched the pinioning of the prisoners.
With it he made a quick twist about the body of the pilot, taking two turns, then drawing the rope tight and tying it, thus pinioning the hands and arms of the pilot to his sides.
Phil grabbed him about the waist, pinioning the man's arms to his sides.
Realizing that she was uninjured, as Hal came toward her, she leaped forward and threw her arms about him, pinioningthe lad's hand that held his revolver to his side.
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