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Definition of Manacled
1. manacle [v] - See also: manacle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manacled
Literary usage of Manacled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"... even on those deeply guilty members of it who sat manacled behind me, and that
it was considered to have done much towards restoring the allegiance of ..."
2. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1916)
"A guard was also stationed around the court. The court house was bristling with
bayonets on all sides. John Brown, who was manacled to Edwin ..."
3. Travels and Adventures in Mexico: In the Course of Journeys of Upward of by William W. Carpenter (1851)
"Confined in a Cell, chained and manacled.—Renewed Plans of Escape.— Frustrated
by an Accident.—New Project. — This proves successful.—Mexican Barbarities. ..."
4. Excursion Through the Slave States: From Washington on the Potomac, to the by George William Featherstonhaugh (1844)
"... Constitution—Botetourt Springs—A Camp of Negro Slave-drivers—The Coffle of
Slaves crosses New River manacled and fettered—The Negro drivers in mourning. ..."
5. The American Slave-trade: An Account of Its Origin, Growth and Suppression by John Randolph Spears (1900)
"... Decks Space was Packed Full— Effects of the Ship's Rolling on the manacled
Cargo— Living Slaves Jettisoned to Make a Claim on the Underwriters — Horrors ..."
6. History of the Republican Party: Embracing Its Origin, Growth and Mission by Frank Abial Flower (1884)
"An Active Friend of Freedom—Joshua Glover Kidnapped—Beaten and manacled—The Public
Excited—Mass-meetings Held—Writ of Habeas Corpus Refused by Judge ..."
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