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On one occasion, a man peering into one of the dirty windows claimed to see the dim figure of a woman, suspended by her wrists from the ceiling.
He was followed out of the cell by eight men, chained together and manacled at the wrists and ankles.
He was sleeping despite having his wrists manacled to the railing on the side of the bed.
In Italy the mandolinists play with straight wrists and the right forearm is in line with the strings.
He regarded me with infuriating calm, grabbed my wrists, and manhandled me into the car.
She grabbed both of Mazing's wrists and held her still while Kat dragged the ball and chain and used that to tie Mazing's wrists together.
Gauntlets were strapped onto his hands and wrists, and sturdy boots were on his feet.
Once they had finished thrashing me, they tied me up again, but this time I managed to keep my ankles and wrists slightly apart.
Using the pain in both wrists as a focus, he concentrated his distaste directly on the man before him.
It rises up to the narrow tidemark and with a swift flick of his wrists, it squeaks to a stop.
I leaned down and worked to undo the cords that had been tied around her wrists.
He didn't expect to tie her up, but the ropes went around her wrists so easily.
She tried moving her wrists but the ropes were too tight, even though she was wearing her jean jacket the ropes seemed to cut into her skin.
He grabbed her wrists and pulled her in to kiss the place where he had beaned her and leaned her head back while faking a grimace.
Speaking of which, if you do opt to wear your watch, keep your timepiece and bracelet on separate wrists.
Vermilion paint, made from mercuric sulphide, was then splashed onto the image's wrists, feet and body to represent blood.
Volar aspects of the wrists contained multiple serpiginous scaling lesions.
There were heavy, rusty chains around her wrists and ankles that hurt when they tightened.
His legs donned somewhat baggy khaki pants and a light blue button down shirt that belled out at his wrists.
Shackles bind him at the wrists and ankles, stretching his body long across the table.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The frill of his shirt front and the ruffles at his wrists were of the finest lace.
He felt the cords about his wrists giving somewhat and he redoubled his efforts.
Wallis gripped him firmly but kindly by the wrists, and forced him into a seat.
Glaring down at the hobbyist, Stonecypher gripped the staff and rotated thick wrists outward.
He lifted the opened bracelets off his prisoners wrists and pitched them, clinking, upon the bedcover.
He felt the paper thrust into his hands, reached for her wrists, and pinioned them.
Oswald bent the man's legs and, trussing him up, fastened the rope from the ankles to that which bound the wrists.
Here are some of the cords you cut from Greg's wrists and ankles, and here's some of the oakum.
Then Victorian hoops which were succeeded by the Victorian bustles, pantalets, black velvet at throat and wrists, and lockets.
She was so strong in the wrists and fingers that she could hold them when they were rambunctious.
Tug as he would at the old man's wrists, the hangman could not force him to unclench his hands.
The next instant the darbies were on her tender wrists, and we will add that no resistance was offered.
More than once I wake up in the night from dreaming that his scrawny hand was clapping the darbies on my wrists.
Adolphe, the gyves upon his wrists, craved a cigarette, and a police-officer took one from the packet lying upon the sideboard.
Here were two with wrists and sleeves all spotted with the ruddy grape juice.
For he used the latus Clavus 70 with fringes about the wrists, and always had it girded about him, but rather loosely.
Mr. snivel dashes the candle from her hand, and in the darkness grasps her wrists.
She sobbed, and with a sudden feeling of modesty freed her wrists from his grasp.
His arms were manacled with strong loops round his wrists, resembling a clevis, connected by a strong iron bolt.
He noted how the soft flesh was creasing into webby folds beneath her chin, below her eyes, at the base of her wrists.
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