But to break the shackles of the man of trade is the work of our era, or of an era yet to come.

He stooped, eagerly examining the shackles on Gray's ankles.

The revelation had in effect stricken shackles from Lanyard's wrists, now when he struck it would be with neither hesitation nor compunction.

Beauty, wit, address, with the less shackled in mind, have superseded all that was frightful, and terrible, odious, ugly, and deformed.

[Illustration: Handcuffs] I bought also a pair of shackles for the legs.

Then, hateful as is the life of shackles to me, will I marry her.

Their plans succeeded, and after leaving the immediate neighborhood, they broke their shackles with stones.

There are eager longings, lofty demands, magnificent plans, and promising outlooks in abundance, but a lack of power to endure, a lack of calmness and maturity; while the shackles against which the leading minds revolt still bind too firmly both the leaders and those to whom they speak.

We were driven through the streets shackled like criminals, and the women and children came out of the houses and watched us in silencetheir heads bowed, tears running down their cheeks.

"Like the lady of Burgundy, I was shackled at my birth.

"Old Dale seems like a good feller, sort of shackles along a mite too shiftless maybe, but his daughter takes the curse off, don't she?"

The despoilers of America actually plotted to destroy it, to smother its message, to adjust new shackles about the limbs of labour.