Possibly it was overdone; but if any one in the audience had seen such a young person enter his or her room unexpectedly, and uttering such unaccountable sounds, he or she would most assuredly have rung for a doctor and a cab, and for a strait-jacket if such a thing were to be had in the neighbourhood.

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.

They drove me raving distracted with questions about it, so that I had to be put in a strait-jacket.

One man said I was mad and ought to be put in a strait-jacket.

Then the quantity of dust and smoke and cinders to be swallowed and endured, the damage to eyes of those who would beguile the mind into that forgetfulness of self; so painfully reminded of both the strait-jacket and the old-time, cruel stocks.

A strait-jacket, indeed, is not a camisole, just as electrocution is not hanging.

When I planned my ruse of the afternoon, I knew perfectly that I should soon find myself in a strait-jacket.

Knowing that I should soon be put in the uncomfortable, but not necessarily intolerable embrace of a strait-jacket, my thought was that I might during the night, in some way or other, use this piece of glass to advantageperhaps cut my way to a limited freedom.

After he had laced the jacket, and drawn my arms across my chest so snugly that I could not move them a fraction of an inch, I asked him to loosen the strait-jacket enough to enable me at least to take a full breath.

No incidents of my life have ever impressed themselves more indelibly on my memory than those of my first night in a strait-jacket.

He was not a bad sort; yet even he refused to let out the cords of the strait-jacket.

It will be recalled that I placed a piece of glass in my mouth before the strait-jacket was adjusted.

Ask him to please come here at once and ease this strait-jacket.

As my strait-jacket rendered me armless, I presented the glass to Jekyll-Hyde on the tip of a tongue he had often heard, but never before seen.

After fifteen interminable hours the strait-jacket was removed.

On more than one occasion, indeed, the attendant placed me in the strait-jacket during the day for refusing to obey some trivial command.

Once, during the third week of my nights in a strait-jacket, I refused to take certain medicine which an attendant offered me.

I was robed for the nightin a strait-jacket.

He and the attendants knew that I usually kept a trick or two even up the sleeve of a strait-jacket, so they took added precautions.

Doctor Jekyll did tell him that it had been found necessary to place me in "restraint" and "seclusion" (the professional euphemisms for "strait-jacket," "padded cell," etc.), but no hint was given that I had been roughly handled.

Yet, on either of these days, had I been in the private institution which I had recently left, I should have occupied a cell and worn a strait-jacket.

Then followed an account of the strait-jacket experience; then an account of abuses at the State Hospital.

These tournaments were rare events for Max; they gave him a day of partial rest from his strait-jacket life at the little court among the crags.

When the boy approached manhood, I grew troubled lest this strait-jacket existence in Styria should dwarf him mentally and morally.

I must leave Burgundy and go back to my strait-jacket.