manacles

Example Sentences

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She shot by close to the buoy of the Manacles.

From The Three Admirals by Wells, J.R.

Safely past the dread Manacles, the Falmouth pilot left us.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.

Manacles were put on them all without difficulty, and they soon found themselves securely lodged on board an United States vessel.

From Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. by Anonymous

We passed sufficiently near the Manacles to distinguish their black heads standing with threatening aspect high out of the water.

From A Yacht Voyage Round England by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Once, in early days, when Courtenay was a middy an a destroyer, his ship ran ashore on the Manacles.

From The Captain of the Kansas by Tracy, Louis