We dined soon after I awoke, off a roast fowl and a pudding; I sitting at table, not unlike a trussed bird myself, and moving my arms with considerable difficulty.
Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years.
Ay," said Tom, "now y'are trussed ye would cozen us.
I could cut my throat for not making sure he was trussed up for keeps!
There I was at the bottom of the gondola as helpless as a trussed fowl.
Kerouan, the steward, had rushed in with a rope, and between them they gagged and trussed the man, so that he was utterly helpless.
My hands were tied together behind my back and my ankles also trussed up in a similar manner.
In ye mene tyme his menye robbe his chambre and ryfled his hutches and trussed suyche as they coude gete to gydder and caryed it away on his own hors.
And the murdering hounds, not content with that, trussed you up and left you here like a rat in a sewer.
A bundle of rags was trussed against the post of one of the stalls.
On the instructions of Pederstone, the four men carried the trussed Hanson into a nearby stable, where they made him fast with fresh ropes to some heavy stanchions.
Shortly afterwards, Hanson, foaming at the mouth and shouting at the pitch of his voice, was trussed securely to the stanchions supporting one of the barns.
It was the unconscious form of Jim Langford, trussed with knotted ropes until it looked more like a bale of cast-off clothing than a human being.
Phil followed suit with an apron of Hanson's, and soon the doors were wide open, the fires blowing and the anvil ringing, drowning the groans and shouts that came from Hanson as he lay like a trussed fowl in the adjoining stable.
Procure four very nice spring chickens trussed as for boiling, roast them in vegetables, as described (No.
Train men, rushing in, took charge of the prisoners and trussed them up securely.
Several of the cowboys ran up, and in a few seconds the stallion was securely trussed up.
Take a fine fat young fowl, and having trussed it for boiling, fill the body and craw with oysters, seasoned with a few blades of mace, tying it round with twine to keep them in.
Having trussed the ducks, put into each a thick piece of soft bread that has been soaked in port wine.
Having trussed the fowls, and picked and singed them carefully, put them into a large pot containing equal quantities of boiling water and cold water.
It's bad enough trying to clamber up this infernal road, anyhow, without having to go at it all trussed up this way.
For wheras the rich onelie suffer iniurie by the first two, these spare neither rich nor poore: but whether it be great gaine or small, all is fish that commeth to net with them, and yet I saie both they and the rest are trussed vp apace.
Shields grabbed the boots and pulled, walking backward, and soon an enraged and trussed cow-puncher came into view.
Then the lariat twitched and whirled and loops ran along it and fastened over the guard's wrists, rapidly getting shorter; and when it ceased, its wielder was brought to the side of his trussed victim.
He advanced a pace to where Desmond sat trussed up, hand and foot, in his chair.
She didn't see anything from first to last," answered the detective, "as far as she is concerned it might have been a woman or a black man who trussed her up.
The patrolman has been trussed up like you," began Vroon.
There was a sharp, fierce struggle; and when it came to an end Hargreave was trussed to a chair.
Together Billy and Bridge trussed up the two tramps.
We had been trussedup by those Japs, and they were carrying us up onto the deck of that U-boat!
And so they slowly turned around and suffered themselves to be trussedup hand and foot by the two Jap sailors.
Well, they trussed us up, and carried us out on deck," the English youth began.
Jove's golden eagle through the crimson skies In chase of clanging marsh-fowl, swooped in flight Down on a swan, and trussed the noble prize.
Down swoops Jove's armour-bearer, and on high With taloned claws hath trussed him.
And about noon the lion took his little whelp and trussed him and bare him there he came from.
And yet, I say, both they and the rest are trussed up apace.
The next day, when they had heard mass and taken some repast and that everything was trussed and ready, then they took their horses and rode towards Poitiers.
And while all that was going on I've been here out cold and trussed up like a roasted pig!
Nothing wrong with me except that I'm trussed up like a blooming pig ready for roasting.
It was like a mockery of fate to be a couple of air pilots trussed up helpless on the dirty floor of some strange and smelly room listening to an airplane thunder by outside.
In short, Dave, what earthly use are we to anybody, trussed up here as we are?
Freddy was trussed up, too, and his eyes were closed tight as though in deep sleep.
Am I to be left here trussedup like a chicken ready for the roasting?
He's a decent soul, and it's lucky for me I got a word with him before they trussed me up.
It appears he sat twenty-four hours when I left HIM trussed up, but he said twelve would content him in my case, as there was certain death at the end of them, and I mightn't have life enough left to appreciate my end if he made it longer.
Jack saw the bundle transferred from the one party to the other, and with a start he recognized that it was the form of a man, well trussed up.
Jack feeling, as he afterward said, like a trussed turkey, sat crouching in the butt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trussed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
