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Sentences starting with chains

Chains cease to be needed after the spirit has gone out of a prisoner. [5]

Sentences ending with chains

And she it was who made the Governor loose off these chains. [11]
A light white vapor rose from the splendidly fitted bath-house, loud barkings resounded from the dog-kennels, and from the long array of open stables came the neighing of horses with the clatter and stamp of hoofs, and the rattle of harness and chains. [10]
Yet not only the rude gaoler, but anyone would have marvelled what had brought this beautiful, aristocratic woman, in the grey light of dawn, out on the highway to meet the hapless man loaded with chains. [10]
The touch of the coming day was on the lake, and I made out the two boats dimly, riding on the dead swell and tugging idly at their chains. [9]
Here, Heter, bring the bag of tools and open the moles' chains. [10]
Tidings had come that the Sultan of Egypt had fallen upon the Island of Cyprus, and that the Mussulmans had beaten King Janus, who ruled over it, and had carried him beyond seas in triumph to Old Cairo, a prisoner and loaded with chains. [10]
Fly to the Syrians, offer them your strong young arm, and take no rest till you have avenged yourself on those who have shed the blood of your people and load you, though innocent, with chains. [10]
His feet were still free--free for one short hour before he went to Kaid; but his soul was in chains. [11]
Nor did he ride past his darling's house without a glance at her window, and when he saw Eva beckon he ordered the servants to keep back, and stopped behind the chains. [10]
Here he was released from the sack, but again loaded with chains. [10]

More example sentences with the word chains in them

Alas, for long years he had dug and carried heavy loads, with chains on his feet, beneath a broiling sun. [10]
Handcuffs and chains would look still better on Jim, but it wouldn't go well with the story of us being so poor. [5]
One more battle would have abolished the waiting chains of millions upon millions of unborn Russians and I wish it could have been fought. [5]
He whose easily won heart and susceptible fancy had urged him from one commonplace love to another had been bound by the Queen with chains of indestructible and supernatural power. [10]
The old horse-cars with the clanging chains had disappeared, and you could take an electric to within a block of the imposing grille that surrounded the Dwyer grounds. [9]
It was a wide space; I could tell you how wide, in chains and perches and furlongs and things, but that would not help you any. [5]
But kill Gabord, who had put himself in danger to serve me, who himself had kept the chains from off my ankles and body, whose own life depended upon my security--"Come, come, Robert Moray," said I, "what relish have you for that? [11]
On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements. [2]
Night after night we have shivered around through these mildewed halls, dragging chains, groaning, whispering, tramping up and down stairs, till, to tell you the truth, I am almost worn out. [5]
The little tablet was accompanied by a second, which, in the Regent's name, authorized the bearer to have the harbour chains raised anywhere, to go out into the open sea and return without interference. [10]
Yet he insisted upon his purpose of not entering Alexandria again until he had resigned his office, and to do this at present was impossible, since he was bound just now, as if with chains, to the important frontier fortress. [10]
I could then undo the lumbering padlocks with which our chains were fastened, whenever I might choose. [5]
The executioner ascended to her side and wound chains around her slender body, and so fastened her to the stake. [5]
All others had to go loaded with the chains of an exacting court etiquette, but she was free, she was privileged. [5]
Ephraim's chains were to fall with yours, and everything was ready to aid your flight. [10]
Therefore he ordered the prisoners to be again loaded with chains, the ex-chief fastened to a coughing old man, and all made to stand in rank and file before the fire till morning dawned. [10]
The citizens returned, the portals of the gate closed, the old lock creaked, the iron-shod beams fell back into their places, the chains of the drawbridge rattled audibly, and the assembled throng now knew that the Englishmen had been refused admittance to the city. [10]
You shine in the glittering splendor, but we strike the Spanish chains with the sword, and I devote myself to our work. [10]
Then we heard the far clank of chains, and presently Joan entered with her keepers and took her seat upon her isolated bench. [5]
Below her yawned the dizzy gulf of space, and the air was filled with a rain of sceptres, crowns, and golden chains of honour falling upon ermine and purple robes on the ground below. [10]
The heat of the day still lingered in the leafy roofs overhead, sultry and heavy even now; and in this alley he called her for the first time his own, his betrothed, and enthralled her heart in chains and bonds. [10]
I can hear the chains running. [9]
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. [7]
They've a notion, that in glory, when we wicked ones have chains They will all be major-generals--and that! [11]
Let the chains that bind them together be removed. [10]
The pants were stuffed into the tops of high boots, the heels whereof were armed with great Spanish spurs, whose little iron clogs and chains jingled with every step. [5]
Everywhere in the streets the machines of justice were visible-pillories for the neck and hands, stocks for the feet, and chains to stretch across, in case of need, and stop a mob. [4]
There was a stir outside, a clanking of chains, a champing of bits, and the murmurs of the crowd who were gathering fast in the grounds. [11]
Ephraim had just spoken of the beautiful Egyptian, who had loved Hosea and at whose intercession the prisoner's chains had been removed, when loud outcries were heard at a part of the strand where many of the people had gathered. [10]
Hurrying thither in shocked anxiety, he found a curled gentleman of the guard, resplendent in red velvet and gold chains, in peevish argument with a boisterous Seigneur of a bronzed good-humoured face, who urged his entrance to the presence-chamber. [11]
She cannot be satisfied when she has handcuffed a member, and put a leg-chain and ball on him and plugged his ears and removed his thinker, she goes on wrapping needless chains round and round him, just as a spider would. [5]
With all due respect for your fancy for warming chains, it would be wise, ere Sir Red Coat--[The executioner]--puts his round our ankles for disturbing the peace, to have a sensible talk. [10]
Of his two remarkable-looking hearers one was wrapped in a long and splendid robe and wore a rich display of gold chains and rings, while the other wore nothing over his short chiton but a Roman toga thrown over his left shoulder. [10]
Next came the rattling of chains, the scramble of hoofs in the mire, and here was a wagon with a big canvas cover. [9]
The chains they put would not stay, and when he was set against the wall to be shot, the watches stopped--the minute of his shooting passed. [11]
And, sure enough, pretty soon Frau Brandt followed after, in charge of the officers and wearing jingling chains. [5]
The spectators were plainly moved, and it was undeniable that some of the judges wore rather a sheepish look as they toyed with their watch chains or moved the stationery in front of them. [9]
Long chains of pearls and glittering gems hung on the sallow skin displayed by the open neck of her dress, and on the false, reddish-yellow curls rested a roll of light-blue velvet decked with ostrich plumes. [10]
Deadly horror crept over him; but then, suddenly, the rebound came of youthful vigor, longing for freedom and joy in living; a voice within cried out: "Away with coercion and chains! [10]
Chains, even golden ones, drag us down, but liberty gives wings. [10]
Here the rule of the thinking mind, in whose scales reason and counter-argument decide the matter; among the Cologne people it is the Grand Inquisitor's jailers, chains, dungeons, and the stake. [10]
Such were portions of mummy, of human blood, and of moss from the skull of a thief hung in chains. [6]
And they made no sound but one; that was the dull and awful clank of their chains from end to end of the long file, as forty-three burdened feet rose and fell in unison. [5]
The sakkia turneth no more; the oxen they are gone; The young go forth in chains, the old waken in the night, They waken and weep, for the wheel turns backward, And the dark days are come again upon us-- Will he return no more? [11]
Choristers, in the most elaborate dress, swinging incense holders by delicate metal chains and bearing lanterns on long poles, surrounded the lofty cross. [10]
Recreation on foot, lugging chains through sand and sage-brush, under a sultry sun and among cattle bones, cayotes and tarantulas. [5]
What heavy chains loaded the favoured woman who possessed the love of this greatest of sovereigns! [10]
He would repay Joshua for what he had done, when he remained in chains and captivity that he, his nephew, might go forth as free as a bird. [10]
Now are the jars empty, gold did not avail To save our young men, to keep them from the chains. [11]
I thought of it myself, but I believe she was only thinking of this slow and cruel martyrdom of chains and captivity and insult. [5]
Even if it is hateful to many of the Beggars, that shall not trouble me--if only they will help break the Spanish chains. [10]
The ferry bumped into its slip, the windlasses sang loudly as they took up the chains, the gates folded back, and Honora was forced with the crowd along the bridge-like passage to the right. [9]
Fair golden hair, interwoven with little silver chains and gold pieces, welled out almost too abundantly from beneath her tiara, and was smoothed over her white temples. [10]
These huts were inhabited by human beings, who, with chains on their feet, were driven every morning into the shaft of a mine and there compelled to hew grains of gold out of the stony rock. [10]
Had her experience included Europe, her imagination might have seized the medieval parallel,--the arched bridges flung at intervals across the water, lacking only chains to raise them in case of siege. [9]
They had slept in these chains every night, bundled together like swine. [5]
Ulrich still remained in the gloomy cell, loaded with chains, scantily fed on bread and water, constantly looking death in the face; but a fresh, beautiful spirit of defiance and firm determination to live animated the youth, who was now at peace with himself. [10]
Both were now in prison, loaded with chains. [10]
Yes, and clothed in chains, that free spirit! [5]
Far around as human breath has ever blown he keeps our fathers, our brothers, our sons, and our friends prostrate in the chains of moral death. [7]
But no offence, Herr Wolff Eysvogel; you'll make the queer fellow's acquaintance if, like myself, it would be agreeable to you to meet often, not only on iron chains, but on friendly terms with each other. [10]
He had fancied her walking with gold chains on her slender wrists before the victor's four-horse chariot, and heard the exulting shouts of the Roman populace. [10]
She moved to her place and mounted the dais and seated herself upon her bench, gathering her chains into her lap and nestling her little white hands there. [5]
While the falcon held the rat in his claws and struck him with his beak again and again, she called the squire to her, and bade him free her from her chains. [10]
At the inn he put the chains and rings he had obtained, into pretty little boxes, and wrote on them in neat Gothic characters with special care: "Helena, Anna, Minerva, Europa and Lucia;" one name on each. [10]
Her spurs, that he had stupidly neglected to remove, consisted of silver frames and gold chains, and the rowels, large as silver dollars, were fancifully engraved. [13]
Subdued to duty's hard control, I could have borne my wayward lot: The chains that bind this rained soul Had cankered then, but crushed it not. [5]
Its chains still hang about me; but in this fateful hour I feel more strongly than ever, and I mean to show, that I am faithful to the old gods. [10]
The Queen's soldiers had probably carried him to prison, loaded with chains, if Philostratus had not already instigated the mob to drag him through the streets. [10]
They got to grumbling a good deal, and chafing under their chains, and longing for relief and release. [5]
He knew Byng's great, generous nature, and he dreaded the inconsistency which such men show--forgiving and forgetting when the iron penalty should continue and the chains of punishment remain. [11]
It was a great leap, but the Englishman made it, catching the chains, and scrambling on deck. [11]
I was not given the width in yards, but only in chains and perches--and furlongs, I think. [5]
He became a free lance, and fought in whatever cause he thought just; he had no ties, no chains. [8]
The soldiers came forward and put heavy chains and a ball upon the woman's ankles. [11]
I pulled my fortitude together and tore off my chains, and was a free man again, and happy. [5]
The one who first brings me that clay figure, and the man who modeled it, in chains and bonds, shall be appointed chief of the night-watch. [10]
But he was finally captured and sent in chains to the lunatic asylum for life. [5]
Again the lock creaked and the chains rattled. [10]
I think posterity could have spared one more martyr for the sake of a great historical picture of Titian's time and painted by his brush--such as Columbus returning in chains from the discovery of a world, for instance. [5]
Presently Ramesay, the Commandant, spoke, not unkindly: "It was ordered you should wear chains, but not that you should be maltreated. [11]
Presently the door closed behind them, and I sank back upon the half-fettered chains. [11]
We heard the clanking of Joan's chains down the corridors; she was approaching. [5]
However strictly the citizen may exclude from his premises all foreign luxuries,--fine cloths, fine silks, rich wines, golden chains, and diamond rings,--still, for the possession of his house, his barn, and his homespun, he is to be perpetually haunted and harassed by the tax-gatherer. [7]
Not even these chains"--and she shook them--"not even these chains can chill the hopes that I uttered there. [5]
Many a shriek came up, of which it was hard to say whether it was the expression of wild defiance or of bitter jesting, and no more suitable accompaniment could be conceived to this terrific riot than the clank of chains. [10]
The next morning Cambyses assembled his generals and rewarded them with different tokens of distinction, such as costly robes, gold chains, rings, swords, and stars formed of precious stones. [10]
He was fastened by two chains to a staple driven into the foundation timbers of the house. [11]
A horse was being led up and down on the opposite side of the courtyard, and behind the chains stood a sedan-chair with several men, to whom Metz had just brought from the kitchen a coal of fire to light their torches. [10]
So they had been dragging their chains about, all this weary time. [5]
They've got him back, safe and sound, and he's in that cabin again, on bread and water, and loaded down with chains, till he's claimed or sold! [5]
When it stirred, as if in response to Shangois's song, the chains rattled. [11]
Also said he, 'And one shall stand at the gates and watch, though the walls crumble away, till the day when the land shall again be our land, and the chains of the stranger be forged in every doorway. [11]
Everywhere servants, guards, and heyducks swarmed, and from the stables he heard the stamping of many horses, and the jingle of their halter chains as they rattled them against their well-filled mangers. [10]
All carried weapons, and a fleece covered the shoulders of many, while chains, ornamented with the teeth of animals, hung on their white muscular chests. [10]
It carried an American ship into the woods after breaking the chains of two anchors. [5]
There is not a yard of low ground on either side of it --nothing but endless chains of mountains that spring abruptly from the water's edge and tower to altitudes varying from a thousand to two thousand feet. [5]
After them came a prisoner loaded with chains, with whom a leading Roman in warrior's dress was conversing. [10]
This promontory has a backbone of rocky ledges and hills; but it has at intervals transverse ledges and ridges, and deep valleys and chains cutting in from either side; so that it is not very passable in any direction. [4]

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