And now, while the whole assembly (the apes included) were convulsed with laughter, the jester suddenly uttered a shrill whistle; when the
chain flew violently up for about thirty feet -- dragging with it the dismayed and struggling ourang-outangs, and leaving them suspended in mid-air between the sky-light and the floor.
Poems
He was bound differently from the rest, for he had to his leg a
chain so long that it was wound all round his body, and two rings on his neck, one attached to the
chain, the other to what they call a "keep-friend" or "friend's foot," from which hung two irons reaching to his waist with two manacles fixed to them in which his hands were secured by a big padlock, so that he could neither raise his hands to his mouth nor lower his head to his hands.
Don Quixote
Rosanna's journey to Frizinghall, when the whole household believed her to be ill in her own room--Rosanna's mysterious employment of the night-time with her door locked, and her candle burning till the morning--Rosanna's suspicious purchase of the japanned tin case, and the two dog's
chains from Mrs.
The Moonstone
And when he had finished his song, he spread his wings, and with the
chain in his right claw, the shoes in his left, and the millstone round his neck, he flew right away to his father's house.
Fairy Tales
What devious
chain of circumstances had led my boy to my side at this one particular minute of our lives when I could strike him down and kill him, in ignorance of his identity!
The Gods of Mars
And the two youths, pulling in opposite directions with
chain and rope, stretched him into helplessness.
Michael Brother of Jerry
They couldn't get the
chain off, so they just cut their hand off and shoved.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ghek lost no time in returning to the chamber, recovering the key, relocking the rykor to his
chain. Then he replaced the key in the burrow and squatting on the table beside his headless body, directed its hands toward the food.
The Chessmen of Mars
When we halted, as we occasionally did, though sometimes the halts seemed ages apart, he would join in the conversation, as would Ghak the Hairy One, he who was
chained just ahead of Dian the Beautiful.
At the Earths Core
I could then undo the lumbering padlocks with which our
chains were fastened, whenever I might choose.
Connecticut Yankee
Its course is generally through plains, but is twice crossed by
chains of mountains; the first called the Littlehorn; the second, the Bighorn.
Adventures of Captain Bonneville USA in the Rocky Mountains and
At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its
chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon.
Christmas Carol
Let the reader picture to himself, crowning a limestone hillock, an oblong mass of masonry fifteen feet in height, thirty wide, forty long, with a gate, an external railing and a platform; on this platform sixteen enormous pillars of rough hewn stone, thirty feet in height, arranged in a colonnade round three of the four sides of the mass which support them, bound together at their summits by heavy beams, whence hung
chains at intervals; on all these
chains, skeletons; in the vicinity, on the plain, a stone cross and two gibbets of secondary importance, which seemed to have sprung up as shoots around the central gallows; above all this, in the sky, a perpetual flock of crows; that was Montfauçon.
Notre Dame de Paris
In the middle of the spear you must have two strong
chains ten fathoms in length.
Yellow Fairy Book
On the lower part of a small, mean boat, on the Red river, Tom sat,--chains on his wrists,
chains on his feet, and a weight heavier than
chains lay on his heart.
Uncle Toms Cabin