He left the ground in a flying tackle and pinioned. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
She wanted to wipe her face, but her arms were pinioned. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
The wretched man was pinioned and led up to the scaffold. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Dave was thus pinioned tightly as the men forced him along. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
But no sound left her throat, and the cloak pinioned her arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
The babui was a prisoner, pinioned to the ground by a fallen tree!. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
His arms were so strong she was pinioned, and she panted as she breathed. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Cross] Reference
Their savior was pinioned by the steel tip fast to the unyielding granite. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Calcraft took the business business-like, and pinioned his man in the cell. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
His head fell forward on his breast, and his arms were pinioned to his sides. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in Captivity, or a Daring Escape By Airship] Reference
The trio were at once seized, and, after a sharp struggle, securely pinioned. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
The rope had looped him about the body and pinioned his arms at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll] Reference
This woman had tall blond hair pinioned to her head with an ornate chopstick. From Wordnik.com. [Cock Sculpting] Reference
In a moment they had wrested the weapon from his hand and had his arms pinioned. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
And so she goes from ship to ship, Her ankles clasped her arms so rudely pinioned. From Wordnik.com. [Decemberists' Meloy Plays Live at 'BPP'] Reference
"There now, tell me," she cried, when Blanche was fairly pinioned between her arms. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
John sat heavily on his foe's stomach, and pinioned the resistant arms with his knees. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
While he was busily engaged with the matter in hand, he suddenly found his arms pinioned by. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
Instantly Foyle had wrested himself free, and Ivan was pinioned to the floor by the others. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
The white nonhuman sprang forward and pinioned my arms with one strong, spring-steel forearm. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
Captain Stuart, and those that remained, were seized, pinioned, and brought back to Fort Loudon. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
We, with our weary feet plodding always on the earth, our heavy arms pinioned close to our sides!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
He slipped on a smooth stone; with a sudden rush his foe pinioned his arms and held him struggling. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
He pinioned her arms with his own and with a wild whoop the four young people skimmed down the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
They arrived on the ground pinioned; their sentence was read to them and Valenzuela was unpinioned for. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The pistol was out of his hand, and his arms were pinioned in an instant; while cries of "Fair play, sir!". From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
But suddenly Ted's rope left his hand before Woofer could divine his meaning, and pinioned the cow-puncher. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur] Reference
Before us, pinioned Bacchus gleamed saffron and pearly, and we dissected away at him in grim, precise unison. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
Judith's direction, and cast one arm firmly about her in such a way that it pinioned both her elbows to her side. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
Her hair, too closely pinned to fly loose, yet seemed to spring from her forehead with the urge of pinioned wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Shakspere's mind was pinioned with celestial imagination, and his rushing flight circled the shores of omnipotence. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
On the ground beside him lay the ship's master, old Captain Baulk, and the three seamen, their arms securely pinioned. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
One drew a pistol, held it on the returned pilot, while the other quickly moved behind Lance and pinioned his arms back. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
Before the prostrate runner could recover himself Coulter seized the head of the shaft and quickly pinioned his foe to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Then it dropped clean over Broken Feather's head and shoulders, and in an instant the chief's two arms were pinioned to his sides. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
Like lightning I grasped her by the hair and as best I could, pinioned as I was above the water by the timber, I raised her above it. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
But, credible as it may have been to many, those who were present knew he was too closely pinioned and guarded for it to be possible. From Wordnik.com. [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference
Hippy struck a match, and by its light they saw Jeremiah Long, arms pinioned to his sides with rope, and a rope about his neck, fastened to. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers] Reference
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