Verb (used with object) : He was manacled by his inhibitions. From Dictionary.com.
There are gyves on her limbs! see her manacled hand!. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
He had between one and two hundred slaves, chained and manacled. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave] Reference
The prisoner folded his manacled hands over his breast, and said. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
She had to be manacled, had this mad woman, France; and it is Monsieur. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
I stood there manacled, holding out the stolen money in my extended hands. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
It was the sound of the metal balls and chains manacled to prisoners 'feet. From Wordnik.com. ['I Still Have Nightmares'] Reference
Wang, according to his wife, has been manacled and kept in solitary confinement. From Wordnik.com. ['I Still Have Nightmares'] Reference
And we got there on the same day, on Robben Island, manacled and shackled together. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2008] Reference
Lee's legs were shackled, his hands manacled and the handcuffs chained to his waist. From Wordnik.com. [Into The Sunshine] Reference
When we were there he had twelve, all manacled, and reposing on grass mats at night. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
The prisoner touched it with his manacled ones, then raised his fingers to his forehead. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
The women were almost insane with terror, and the manacled prisoner begged to be killed. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
Once a juvenile presents a reason for being manacled, then I think that you have to do it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2007] Reference
After being thus manacled for some months, he was released -- but his spirit was unsubdued. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
At any rate, his hands were above his head, and in less than a second he was securely manacled. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence of the Parsonage] Reference
But when I would have gone to her my feet were manacled, for this was not the woman of my dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
One may still work for the Father in Heaven, though sitting in darkness, and with manacled limbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
There's talk of them wearing hoods and being manacled to their seat as they make the flight over here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2002] Reference
At the train gates the party was delayed five minutes to permit the entrance of a motley crew of manacled aliens. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
In this miserable place the poor wretch was kept by the said Bainbridge manacled and shackled for near two months. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
This meagre refreshment taken, they were stripped to their shirts, manacled in couples, and marched off to Naples. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference
The noise of chains and the voice of the Commandant ordering that all prisoners be immediately manacled, reassures me. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
"Why did you manacle this man," he demanded, "when he is evidently so weak, and when none of the others were manacled?". From Wordnik.com. [The Inmate Of The Dungeon 1894] Reference
The huge manacled prisoner emerged, and shuffled awkwardly towards the inner room, closely attended by his armed escort. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
Again and again they were knocked down, the poor slave utterly helpless, with his manacled wrists, streaming with blood. From Wordnik.com. [Harriet, the Moses of Her People] Reference
He was not manacled or bound in any way, there being too many prisoners for each one to be allowed the luxury of fetters. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896] Reference
The manacled rogue is seen in the foreground, his head bowed in despair, as the witness by his side unfolds his damning evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
Standing in a foot of snow, manacled two and two, they frequently gathered to sing and pray and listen to the words of eternal life. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas] Reference
The ignominy of appearing before his charming acquaintance of the day before manacled like a criminal, was too much for Dan's vanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn at the Red Oak] Reference
Sure, the five cuffed contestants eat, swim, sleep (but don't bathe) together for four days, all while manacled at the wrists and ankles. From Wordnik.com. [When 'Chains Of Love' Become A Chain Of Fools] Reference
I have walked where the air was circumscribed -- where man was manacled by space, for no other crimes but those of poverty and misfortune. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841] Reference
His pluck was wonderful, and they set to as well as their manacled hands permitted, on the coarse barley-meal bread and goats 'milk cheese. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
The murderer, now sober and crushed, lifts his manacled hands, red with blood, and charges his ruin upon the men who crazed his brain with rum. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
A desperate and uncontrollable desire for the poison had possession of me, and beneath it my resolutions were crushed and my will helplessly manacled. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
Two Belgian officers, manacled and fastened to the leather stirrups of two Uhlans, made a spectacle that caused a low murmur of resentment from the citizens. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
Great cranes, manacled with heavy chains, stood over the furnace-doors, ready to lift steaming jorums of melted metal, and pour out, hot and hot, for the moulds to swallow. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
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