The Press was strictly gagged, and all the traditional weapons of despotism were polished up.

This reduction would, I suspect, be welcomed by every one except the gagged writers; but as the idea of its being operative is too chimerical for us to entertain it, and as the purpose of these pages is to expound the principles of success and failure, not to make Quixotic onslaughts on the windmills of stupidity and conceit, I answer my young interrogator: "Take warning and do not write.

While he was working there by himself late at night, a couple of masked men broke into the building, bound and gagged him, and proceeded to ransack the safe.

Helplessly bound and gagged he lay on his back in the snow, listening to the low voices that came faintly to him from beyond the bushes.

CHAPTER X A RACE INTO THE NORTH That Meleese loved him, that she had taken his head in her arms, and had kissed him, was the one consuming thought in Howland's brain for many minutes after she had left him bound and gagged on the snow.

He closed the door after him, took out the midget, who was still bound hand and foot and gagged, and laid him down gently on a bench.

That night there was a trial with a whispered accusation and a whispered defence, a gagged prisoner, and a judge whom none could see.

I gagged him, therefore, and bound him with strips of blanket to the bed, so that in his weakened condition there was good reason to think that, in any case, he might not get free before the next visit of the warder.

'Yes,' said one, 'these two boys say that they and their, mother here are free, but she can't speak to you, for she is gagged.'

'I looked into the carriage, and saw two boys.' "'Did thee speak to them?' "'No, they were gagged, and that made me think they were kidnapped.' "'Was any body with them?' "'Nobody but the driver, and he was black.' "'Did thee direct him as he requested?' asked Mr. Tyson.

And though it was ten o'clock at night, (at a time, too, as Mr. Tyson knew, when there was no moon,) yet he could not only see that these two persons were in the hack, but that they were gagged.

He had 'not seen the informer for six weeks, except the last evening, when he brought a hack load of negroes to the tavern where he and his partner were lodgers.' "'Were two boys among the number?' "'Yes.' "'Were they gagged?' "'Yes.'

As he raised his foot to mount the steps the four sailors sprang upon him, bore him backwards to the ground, and had gagged him, securely bound him hand and foot, and bandaged his eyes before he began to realize what had happened.

I could not cry for help, having been gagged.

Still gagged and bound I am at last lifted by the legs and shoulders.

"Why, those men who threw themselves upon Thomas Roch and me, who gagged, bound, and carried us off and shut us up, I know not where?" On reflection I had come to the conclusion that the best thing to do was to pretend that I had been surprised before I knew where I was or who my aggressors were.

It is no light thing to have secured a livelihood on condition of going through life masked and gagged.

The "pleasant literature" which Aunt Phoebe was just then perusing was a History of the Presbyterian Church in eleven volumes, which bored Hinpoha so it nearly gagged her.

Sir George's fancy pictured Julia a prisoner, trembling and dishevelled, perhaps gagged and bound by the coarse hands of the brutes who had her in their power; and the picture was one to drive a helpless man mad.

"And there, you see, is where sinful feelin' in me turned me over to the enemy, bound hand and foot, gagged and blindfolded.

" It was all very flattering to me, but lying there, bound and gagged by my own prisoners, with the voices growing faint and fainter as the Reindeer slipped on through the darkness toward San Rafael, I must say I was not in quite the proper situation to enjoy my smiling future.

Then, as suddenly, his groping fingers, eager enough now, discovered the cause of silencethe man was gagged, cruelly gagged, helpless to utter a sound.

Then, as suddenly, his groping fingers, eager enough now, discovered the cause of silencethe man was gagged, cruelly gagged, helpless to utter a sound.

Robert Stapylton, who lived at Chelsea, in conjunction with John Malony and Edward Armstrong, two watermen, seized the person of Thomas Lewis, an African slave, in a dark night, and dragged him to a boat lying in the Thames; they then gagged him, and tied him with a cord, and rowed him down to a ship, and put him on board to be sold as a slave in Jamaica.

During the night, however, Rother and his companions stole into the enemy's camp, slew Imelot's guards, and having bound and gagged him, Asprian carried him bodily out of his tent and camp, while his companions routed all the mighty Babylonian host.