"Manacle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... prosecuting my abominable traffic in the face of such a disastrous vis a vis; nor could he refrain from intimating his surprise that a man of my reputed character and ability, would consent to manacle and starve the unfortunate negroes who were ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer
... constructed. Now that she was successfully landed upon the desired level and needed its support no longer, would she kick it aside entirely, with one flick of her slippered foot? As for their marriage: what had it really been? A delicately hand-wrought bond? A machine-made manacle? Indeed, ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray |
