No traditions of the past bind them; no hereditary policy controls their action; no customs, covered with the dust of ages, fetter them; no physical or intellectual gyves, corroded by the rust of centuries, are eating into their flesh.

" For the time being, however, no communication was received from the police-station at Todderton, and none of the three friends was caused, like Eugene Aram, to leave the school with gyves upon his wrists.

A human figureor it might be superhuman, for his mien seemed more than mortallifted from the crag, to which he hung suspended by massy gyves and rivets, eyes mournful with the presentiment of pain.

I saw that upon her wrists were a pair of bright steel gyves.

How should this heart gain aught, Were its gyves of grief flung aside?

He had immediately gone to the gendarmes to shout the story to them, and demand that they should bring the guilty hussy back, chained to her accomplice, and both of them with gyves about their wrists.

4 "Gyves I must wear, and cold must be my comfort.

I thought Gyves and the mill had tam'd thee.

Thou knewest better than to be in a hurry to cast off those gyves; and had notice to quit, I fear, before thou wert quite ready to abandon this fleshly tenement.

Once again will she rise, flinging her gyves in the sea!

[Footnote 6: His stockings, slipped down in wrinkles round his ankles, suggested the rings of gyves or fetters.

I dare not, though I have a care of you, ease you of one Iron unles I desire such Gyves my selfe.

Las, if they were all knockt off I'me loaden with Gyves, Shackles, and fetters enough for the arrantest theefe that ever lay in my owne country in Newgate.

Jay. Shackles, gyves, and fetters enough!

Mac. Knock off all his gyves; And he that has a stomacke for Spaines honour To combate with this Englishman, appeare.

That divine part goes ever uprightly and freely, not stooping under the burden of a willing sin, not fettered with the gyves of unjust scruples.

The Bard, in debt, whom Bailiffs ferret, Despite his poetry and merit, Stops in his quick retreat awhile, And tries the long-forgotten smile; E'en the pursuing Bum forgets His business, and the man of Debts; The one neglecting "Caption""Bail" The other "thoughts of gyves and Jail" So wondrous are the spells that bind The noble and ignoble mind.

For in the lane between the region of boxes and the region of bottles, near the former, there lay on the ground the skeleton of a woman, the details of whose costume were still appreciable, with thin brass gyves on her wrists: and when I had examined her well, I knew the whole history of the creature standing silent by my side.

That very night, while gentle sleep The urchin eyelids kiss'd, Two stern-fac'd men set out from Lynn, Through the cold and heavy mist; And Eugene Aram walked between, With gyves upon his wrist.

They looked on the prisoner with fierce red eyes, and rested on their hammers for a minute; and said the elder to his companion, "Take out Elijah Harbottle's gyves;" and with a pincers he plucked the end which lay dazzling in the fire from the furnace.

Away with yonder wide-mouth'd thunderer; We'll try if gyves and straight confinement cannot Check this high eloquence, and cool the brain Which harbours such unmannerd hopes.

Doom'd by her jealous lord's revengeful mood, The well her beverage, bitter bread her food, Lo there with iron gyves chain'd down she lies, And wails unheard her hopeless miseries: Scarce brooking longer life, but that the thought Of Gugemer some gleams of solace brought: Him would she name full oft, and oft implore Heaven, but to view his winning face once more.

To-morrow he would begin to climb the mountains around St. Gian; if he danced attendance on her dangerous Ladyship again, Mrs. Jerry should be there also, and he would walk circumspectly between them, like a man with gyves upon his wrists.

The gleam of a shapely neck, of a pearl necklace and diamond cross, of diamond earrings, of an enormous gold brooch, of golden gyves an inch broad on each wrist, as the rose-tinted rays fell on those natural and artificial charms, produced a dazzling effect in the shady corner.

As if I had anything to do with the galère, except to sit down in it, the most helpless of galley-slaves, and blindly submit to the gyves and chains of Madame de Marignan, who, regarding me as the lawful captive of her bow and spear, carried me off at once to a vacant causeuse in a distant corner.