bilboes
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Now, sir, if you are in no great hurry, and have a mind to travel in company with a martyr, just as soon as I am free of these bilboes, we'll take the road together.
From The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol
The next year another Newe-towne man, being penitent, Henry Bright, was set in the bilboes for “swearynge.”
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
John Smith, of Medford, for ſwearing, being penitent, was ſet in bilboes.
From The Olden Time Series, Vol. 5: Some Strange and Curious Punishments Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
My ankles had been freed from the bilboes before I was brought up, but when I was ordered to stand, I could not readily obey because of the continued numbness of my limbs.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Robert Ames Bennet
Bill burst out, "I forgot he's in the bilboes, Miss. Now ain't that a dummed shame?"
From Gold Out of Celebes by Aylward Edward Dingle
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