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

Harry saw his bald tail whip through the manacle on Ron’s outstretched arm and heard a scurrying through the grass.

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

The prince's fingers locked on Jemmy's arm like a manacle.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

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

They apologized to Aarfy for intruding and led Yossarian away between them, gripping him under each arm with fingers as hard as steel manacles.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

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

She has been manacled inside this fun house for a decade, with little to do but experience psychic distress.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2017

I am leashed, it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

From The Guardian ● Jun. 12, 2010

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 Merriam, George Spring

The manacling of Mr. Davis delayed the work of reconstruction for years, and did much to restore the feeling of sectional hatred which fair fighting had overcome.

From Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Poore, Benjamin Perley

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 Broughton, Rhoda

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir