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Does he know that he who then holds them will not be able to conceive of their having been or ever being another's as now they are his? As Alexa sat in the dim light by her brooding father she loathed the shining thing he had again drawn under the bed-clothes shrunk from it as from a manacle the devil had tried to slip on her wrist.
One of them put a knife to the Englishman's throat, and twisted round his head to call out something to his master. "No, not now," said Don Carlos shortly, in Spanish. "Take him away, manacle him, and guard him closely." The men dragged Standish to his feet and hustled him out of the room, and as they did so Don Carlos reeled, a gasping cry broke from him, and he collapsed in a heap on the floor.
Foreign seeds, you know, can do nothing without a good soil. In truth, I am looking with great interest for Catherine Sedgwick's book. "Hard work to write." Yes, terribly hard it has been for me these two years past; but when I am vigorous, I like it. However, the pen is ever, doubtless, a manacle to the thought; draws it out, if you please, but makes a dragging business of it.
"Still it's safer," argued Breault, a wicked glitter in his eyes. "Hold out one hand, please " The manacle snapped over Jolly Roger's wrist. "I'm Breault not Terence Cassidy," he chuckled. "Never take a chance, you know. Never!" Swift as a flash was his movement then, as the companion bracelet snapped over Nada's wrist. He stepped back, facing them with a grin.
Many had brought handcuffs and ropes along with which to manacle their prisoners and have sport with them after the fight, another ancient pastime of our half-ape ancestors. They threw down some of their blankets but held on to their handcuffs. When the first crash of battle came these raw recruits on both sides fought with desperate bravery for nine terrible hours.
Thus the hand of Robert C. Holliday was linked by the manacle of destiny to the hand of Newton B. Tarkington, and it is a quaint satisfaction to note that Mr. Holliday's first book was that volume "Booth Tarkington," one of the liveliest and soundest critical memoirs it has been our fortune to enjoy. Like all denizens of Indianapolis "Tarkingtonapolis," Mr.
He, the priest, vowed, despite his honest doubts, to the preaching of God's holy word and commandment, to be applying questions such as that to the marriage ties between himself and Catie! For, quite unconsciously, the swift revulsion flung him back upon the use of the old, almost forgotten name. No marriage, honestly entered into, honestly lived out, could be a machine-wrought manacle.
Over his brow there hovered a vexed business frown, nor did this altogether vanish as he advanced upon Carlisle, a lover's welcome springing imperiously into his eyes. "Isn't this the devil's own luck?... Deming insists it all depends on me." "You go at nine-thirty?" "He says he'll manacle me if necessary. It's confoundedly important, you see there are large interests involved.
"My companion awaits me," said Allan; "I go instantly." Yet still he stood before her, and held her by the arm, with a pressure which, though insufficient to give her pain, made her sensible of his great personal strength, his hand closing on her like the gripe of a manacle. "Shall I take the harp?" she said, in a timid voice; "is is the shadow falling upon you?"
"Still it's safer," argued Breault, a wicked glitter in his eyes. "Hold out one hand, please " The manacle snapped over Jolly Roger's wrist. "I'm Breault not Terence Cassidy," he chuckled. "Never take a chance, you know. Never!" Swift as a flash was his movement then, as the companion bracelet snapped over Nada's wrist. He stepped back, facing them with a grin.
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