chains

[chains]

Metal shackles; for hands or legs

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Noun
metal shackles; for hands or legs


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Usage Examples

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

They put chains on me they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

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