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Updated: June 5, 2025
The killing of the trussed and fallen animal over the rivulet recalled the cutting out of the heart of human victims on the sacrificial stones amid the plaudits of the Aztec multitude and the division of the still quivering flesh among them, and the vulgar young fellows running around, knife in hand, eager for an opportunity to use them, their once white smocks smeared and spattered with blood, brought back the picture of the savage old priests of the religion of Montezuma.
Could I have known that almost within pistol shot of me the Inspector was trussed up as helpless as I, then indeed my situation must have become unbearable, since upon him I relied for my speedy release. My ankles were firmly lashed to the rails at the foot of my bed; each of my wrists was tied back to a bedpost.
Peter had his own way, learned in a wild school, of knocking the sense out of a foe. He gagged him scientifically, and trussed him up with his own belt and two straps from a trunk in my bedroom. 'This man is too dangerous to let go, he said, as if his procedure were the most ordinary thing in the world. 'He will be quiet now till we have time to make a plan.
Still, I did not stop to answer him, being in too great a hurry to join Tom Jerrold and the others aft in taking in the mizzen-royal and topgallant my fellow apprentices having had time already to get aloft while I was rolling on the deck forward like a trussed fowl!
"Coldly furnish'd forth the marriage tables" "such food as this should be consumed by vulgar brutes, who would better relish a baron of beef and a measure of double-dub, than a trussed turkey and a flagon of canary."
Well for Radisson that he had won the warriors' favor; for when the time came for him to run the gantlet of Iroquois diableries, instead of being slowly led, with trussed arms and shackled feet, he was stripped free and signalled to run so fast that his tormentors could not hit him.
I took it out, pressed the button, and directed the ray upon the face of the man beside me. It was Nayland Smith! Trussed up and fastened to a ring in the wall he lay, having a cork gag strapped so tightly between his teeth that I wondered how he had escaped suffocation.
The object of his terror had become suddenly inverted; till then he had seen Attwater trussed and gagged, a helpless victim, and had longed to run in and save him; he saw him now tower up mysterious and menacing, the angel of the Lord's wrath, armed with knowledge and threatening judgment. He set down his glass again, and was surprised to see it empty.
But hark ye, coz, I think of sending my cartel also to the prince." "Oliver! Oliver! You are mad!" "Not I, i' faith! I care not a denier whether he be prince or no. By Saint James! I see that your squire's eyes are starting from his head like a trussed crab. Well, friend, we are all three men of Hampshire, and not lightly to be jeered at." "Has he jeered at you than?"
"We shall wait, as you suggest." Nikol became silent again. Ivan said nothing either. "But it's awfully tiresome being trussed up like this," Stubbs protested. "Better a little tiresomeness now than a bullet in the morning, Mr. Stubbs," returned Chester. "Right you are, Chester, I'll kick no more," said Stubbs. He, too, became silent. Hal, Chester and Colonel Anderson talked in low whispers.
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