manacle

Mostly I just fret, worry-beading minor problems and irritations until they form a manacle of woe.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2019

He even got a leg manacle removed so that he could move freely about the courtroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within these limitations, the show covers an astonishing range, which should prove to even the most doctrinaire of abstractionists that an attachment to reality is not necessarily a manacle for the mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rattleshirt sat scratching at the manacle on his wrist with a cracked yellow fingernail.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

As the werewolf wrenched itself free of the manacle binding it, the dog seized it about the neck and pulled it backward, away from Ron and Pettigrew.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

Just past midnight on a cold, wet November night in 1904, 13-year-olds William Kiger and Albert Cook, wearing only their skivvies and chained together with ankle manacles, cradled the shackles to stop them clanking.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

Only after a moment do you see the iron manacles between the waves — a Romantic liberty Turner took.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2022

Winters, we can look across the vast eastward miles, and regard with pity the icebound, housebound millions in the manacles of winter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

In so doing, he has posed the question of what mind-forg'd manacles keep three, British-born, young men enslaved to a pair of unscrupulous builders.

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2020

Some of the Champions, Grave, Ned, and Bill included, had been given long manacles.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

He stays gruff, of course, but you sense that Ray is as manacled by his authoritarian role as Colin literally is in his hungry, slurping devotion to his master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

When Martin does depict a full human body, such as the manacled one in the potent “Enslaved,” it’s in the form of a black or brown stick figure with a circular head.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2020

There were no triumphal demonstrations, in the tradition of ancient Rome, with manacled Russian captives and their plundered treasures paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue.

From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2019

“I am leashed it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer,” she says.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018

Even the stench from the manacled troll seemed mild in comparison.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

Where is their evidence that manacling our language to past usage is at all helpful or necessary?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2010

Is it possible that the gyves he had thought to have cast off for ever are here, manacling him again as soon as he tries to make one free step?

From Doctor Cupid by Rhoda Broughton

Before this conception we might well shudder, for its irons are secretly manacling our own limbs.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger

And call the house-bride, homewards bring Maid yearning for new married fere, Her mind with fondness manacling, As the tough ivy here and there 35Errant the tree enwinds.

From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton

President Johnson held Jefferson Davis in long imprisonment, with the aggravation not only of close confinement and even a temporary manacling, but of a public accusation of complicity in the murder of Lincoln.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam