My arms and limbs smart under thongs that bind too tightly.
I thought he intended to cut the thongs that bound the two men together.
But the thongs intended to secure his captive--and which had no doubt been wound around both of them by a third hand--had become bonds for himself.
I can feel thongs cutting sharply into my skin; and my back and shoulders press against some supporting substance, that seems as hard as rock.
She shivered again, when at the first ford, where they had separated more than an hour before, the rawhide thongs in one of her stirrups broke, and caused a second delay.
His frayed white shirt was spotless, and his gray trousers, held up by thongs of skin, were neatly darned and clean.
Then Achilles did a dreadful deed; he slit the feet of dead Hector from heel to ankle, and thrust thongs through, and bound him by the thongs to his chariot and trailed the body in the dust.
A single slash severed the thongs about his ankles, and he stood up, leaped to the deck.
Vilma lay on an ancient bed, her wrists and ankles bound with leather thongsdrawn about the four tall bed-posts.
This being granted, she cut the hide into as many thongs as enclosed ground sufficient to build a fort upon; which was in consequence called ‘Byrsa.
On one there was placed a brazen vessel, about the size of an ordinary cauldron: and on the other a little boy, which was most probably a piece of mechanism, who held a brazen whip with several thongs which hung loose, and were easily moved.
The smiths and armourers on palfreys ride, Files in their hands, and hammers at their side; And nails for loosen'd spears, and thongs for shields provide.
The thought hurt worse than the thongsthat bound me.
Stepping to where the cut thongs that had bound me lay, I took the longest pieces and tied the half-breed securely.
Had you been long bound in those thongs when we came?
Pentaur drew his sword, and cut the leather thongs which bound the young man's hands and feet.
The dogs had been for some moments past tearing at their thongs to get away, so that no sooner were they freed than, barking and baying fiercely, they raced down after the buffaloes, and Dinny never did a better act in his life.
Then a bright idea seized him, and pulling his knife from his belt, he dashed at the place where his enemies the dogs were tied up by stout thongs to the waggon-wheels, and divided them one by one.
My masters twain, the slaughtered deer Hung on fork'd boughs--with thongs of leather.
Montezuma wore the usual broad girdle and square cloak of the finest cotton, on his feet were sandals with soles of gold, and leathernthongs ornamented with the same metal.
We bound this beast with leather thongs of the punkah-rope, and tied its thumbs and big toes together, and gagged it with a shoe-horn, which makes a very efficient gag if you know how to arrange it.
As I was whispering this the cry outside the house rose again, and the beast fell into a fresh paroxysm of struggling till we were afraid that the thongs that held it would give way.
Kotuko was run away from once or twice through forgetting to block the sleigh when he stopped; and he broke many lashings, and ruined a few thongs before he could be trusted with a full team of eight and the light sleigh.
They had tied his wrists so tightly that the thongs had cut deep into the flesh.
A steel cap was on his head, and he wore a supple coat of leathern thongs laced together, and made stronger by thin plates of steel at the shoulder and upper part of the arms.
Cerdic continued to push his knife under him, and both men lay upon their stomachs, with their hands placed in the position they would have occupied had the thongs remained uncut.
Armand take a step forward, doubtless eager to bind with deerskin thongs the lads he hated so bitterly.
History has a way of repeating itself, Lacroix," said Kenton, with a laugh, as he started to bind the hands of the borderman with tested thongs made from the toughest of elk hide.
When wet, the deerskin thongs stretched enough for him to work loose.
We sprang forward, cut the thongs which bound the female to the animal's back, and lifting her to the ground, carried her out of danger.
At length I had almost succeeded, though I was not really asleep, when I heard a voice whisper in my ear, "Do not move or speak when you find the thongs cut.
Combing out the thongs with his five fingers before each blow, firmly and determinedly was the first dozen delivered by the bo'swain's mate, and as unflinchingly received.
Being secured entirely with thongs of hide sunk by grooves into the wood to keep them from wearing, they were perfectly flexible, so as to be in no danger of breaking on uneven ground.
Besides the spears, we purchased an instrument having a rude hook of iron let into a piece of bone, and secured by thongs to a staff, the hook being sharply pointed, but not barbed.
The gag was taken from his mouth and the thongs which bound his legs were untied, and thus he was permitted to stand on his feet.
Do not disturb the thongs attached to the girdle when you open the cage, but take the ambassador's pigeons out and substitute four of my own.
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.
The people of the Bald Eagle took her, they brought her down the great river to the council hill, they bound her withthongs and left her to die.
But it was not to shed the heart's blood of the Mohawk girl, but to severe the thongsthat bound her to the deadly stake, for which that glittering blade was drawn, and to bid her depart in peace whithersoever she would go.
She made no effort to support herself, but allowed her whole weight to bear upon the moose-hide thongs with which she was bound.
She would cut the thongs which bound him fast, and set him free.
She will cut the thongsand save him from the Chilcats.
When Klitonda heard the voice, and felt the thongs give way, he had no doubt but that it was Klota's spirit which had come to him in his time of need.
But the Chilcats knew how to tie a prisoner, and as the thongs were wound about his wrists in several coils, he found that all his efforts were in vain.
When the thongswere cut he looked upon the blood upon his wrists and knuckles, and stood for a moment in silence.
But had he known it was his daughter who cut the thongs not a step would he have taken from the place.
But do not give him any food, do not give him a place to rest, and do not cut the thongs which bind his bleeding hands unless the Ayana warriors will follow their chief.
Had not the thongs been of excellent material they certainly would have been rent asunder by the infuriated chieftain.
They found the cut thongs lying by the tree, and they needed no words from the maiden to explain who had done the deed.
I waited until it had died down into a narrow flame, over which I held my hands till the thongs were charred; then, with a quick twist of the wrists, which caused my scorched flesh to flake off in shreds, I wrenched my hands apart.
Whipping out my knife, I cut through the thongs by which the sack was tied; it lurched over, letting fall a dozen ounces or so of gold dust.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thongs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
