351 examples of shackle in sentences

Bind, secure, fetter, shackle, gyve.

Shackle him wi' bands of steel, and of brass, and of iron!

Her light touch on his arm was the very shackle of fate.

While on our mountain tops the pine In freedom her green branches wave, Her sons shall never stoop to bind The galling shackle of the slave.

He would shackle the press, and muzzle the members of parliament.

Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea; King's Bench, Queen's Bench. bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples^; vice, vise.

He disliked incurring any obligation which might in any degree shackle the expression of his free opinions.

Oh, shackle not his feet in life's fierce strife, His weary shoulders burden,blast his life!

We can clearly see that Napoleon has not now the power he formerly possessed and that the Republican party, into whose hands he has thrown himself, seem disposed not only to remain at peace, but to shackle him in every possible manner.

Some of the reports of these Societies exhibit not only considerable talent, but a deep sense of religious duty, and a determination to persevere through evil as well as good report, until every scourge, and every shackle, is buried under the feet of the manumitted slave.

Some of the reports of these Societies exhibit not only considerable talent, but a deep sense of religious duty, and a determination to persevere through evil as well as good report, until every scourge, and every shackle, is buried under the feet of the manumitted slave.

He had seen the chain lengthen link by link, and now the time was come for the welding of it into a shackle to bind.

In undertaking this journey, I was careful not to shackle my individual liberty by appearing as the representative of any society, whether religious or benevolent; and, on the other hand, none of those friends, who kindly furnished me with letters of introduction, are in any way responsible for my proceedings in the United States, or for any thing which this volume contains.

Shackle them both, and send them to him under guard.

We may laugh at such simple festivals at home, and prefer to shake ourselves loose from every shackle that bears the rust of the Past, but we would certainly be happier if some of these beautiful old customs were better honored.

"Inthral; to enslave, to shackle, to reduce to servitude.

Conscious guilt appears to shackle all their proceedings, and though the punishment of some subordinate agents cannot, in the present state of things, be dispensed with, yet the Assembly unveil the register of their crimes very reluctantly, as if each member expected to see his own name inscribed on it.

Some there are, who leave writers very little room for self-congratulation; some who affirm, that books have no influence upon the publick, that no age was ever made better by its authors, and that to call upon mankind to correct their manners, is, like Xerxes, to scourge the wind, or shackle the torrent.

The duchess gave her a solid gold bracelet in the form of a slave's shackle, with the words, "We trust it is a memorial of a chain that is soon to be broken."

After milking a cow the dairy-maid should strike it deiseal with the shackle, saying 'out and home' (mach 'us dachaigh).

The Anti-Slavery zeal, with him a passion, He knows less warmly shared by other traders; But soi-disant Crusaders Caught paltering with the Infidels, like traitors, And hot enthusiast Emancipators Who the grim Slavery-demon gently tackle, Wink at the scourge, and dally with the shackle, Such, though they vaunt their zeal and orthodoxy, Seemfor philanthropistsa trifle foxy!

He has only one childa daughter, with whom I imagine the old folks intend to shackle me in the bonds of matrimony.

" He laid hold of my elbow and snapped a shackle on my wrist.

I could feel his muscles tighten; I could hear the cracking of his joints and the grinding of the shackle-chain.

It needeth a true full-grown hero to shackle you, Jupiter's son, and Alcmene's, no less!

351 examples of  shackle  in sentences