Verb (used with object) : He was manacled by his inhibitions.    From Dictionary.com. 

He should have had to sit on stage in manacles. pseudonymous in nc Says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Disrespect] Reference

His manacles were a constant, a twenty-four-hour-a-day weight his body grudgingly accepted in spite of the rawness and swelling caused by the dig of unforgiving metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honorbound]

Noting the "manacles" and advocating them are two different things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

"manacles," or poles with leathern yokes, and driven through the city streets by a band of forty boys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times] Reference

The guards tested Doc's manacles and forced him into the shuttle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Badge of Infamy] Reference

The slave wept in shame, and jerked at the manacles in frustration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magicians of Gor]

ABRAHAM: We sort of have images of people in manacles and that's it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2007] Reference

Another fellow with him was checking the manacles and joining rings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magicians of Gor]

To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference

He is a moveable prison, and his hands two manacles hard to be filed off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

Menolly was up on the dais, where she ripped Venus's manacles out of the rock wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Changeling]

He dropped the manacles and the lengths of chain attached to them, one after another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Counting Up, Counting Down]

The latter official seeing a man with manacles on, considered it his duty to arrest him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harriet, the Moses of Her People] Reference

A highly polished collection of chains and manacles hung on the wall behind Filch's desk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]

By her sentence Truth was gagged, scourged, branded, cast down on the earth in manacles; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference

"All I want is a good set of manacles and chains, and six of your fastest horses," said Sulla.    From Wordnik.com.  [The First Man in Rome]

He did have -- he was not handcuffed at that point we don't believe but he had leg manacles on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 2, 2008] Reference

There was a sharp click, and the next instant the manacles embraced the wrists of the detective.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

“You can't say I didn't warn you,” said Caesar to Polygonus, wearing a stout set of manacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

Federico found himself in a narrow dungeon, stretched on damp straw, with manacles on hands and feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

It had windows and manacles and chains and benches, high smooth walls and a distant vaulting ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warslayer]

And now a soldier seizes them, and drawing them behind my back, fastens heavy iron manacles to my wrists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

Bind it round his hands and feet, like manacles and fetters; sit down on his bed; sprinkle water over him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

Sabin rushed forward and saw Joscelin, lord of Edessa, throttling his guard with the chain of his manacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

From a pocket Havig drew the set of manacles and chain which were standard equipment for every person of his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two in Time]

Did not Michael Davitt once say that manacles and Manitoba were the two cures for Ireland which they could propose?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference

"Why that a pair of manacles, or a stone doublet would probably have been of some service to that author's infirmity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832] Reference

Effective restraint may be employed without the use of either iron manacles or dismal light and air excluding dungeons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference

The small wrists of Fulvia, now kneeling near me, her knees about at my chest level, on the platform, were locked in manacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magicians of Gor]

Whips, thumbscrews, and manacles of iron were far less helpful to it than the thraldom of the intellects of its hapless victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

Some of these women, in their manacles, attached to the rear of the vehicles, thrusting and pushing, helped to hurry them ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magicians of Gor]

The soldier, now thoroughly awake, got upon his feet as quickly as his swollen ankles and the manacles on his wrists would permit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference

My object was to free myself, to break my manacles, to open the door of my prison cell and walk forth in the upright posture of a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference

Yard, accidentally uncovered a quantity of human bones, among which was a skeleton having a pair of iron manacles still upon the wrists.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference

They bore with them heavy manacles and chains, which they fastened upon our men, cutting the leathern thongs which had held them until now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference