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The flickering torches in wall sockets showed every wall to be lined with torture instruments: Skeffmgton's Gyves, casicaws, manacles, fetters, and bilboes.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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Gyves fastened up his limbs and dread of some cruel doom struck at his heart as he stooped to enter the place.
The Orchard of Tears Sax Rohmer 1921
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Gyves, chains and fetters will enforce that command.
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889
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Quince Tart by the cross-bars over his Golden face; when I first heard that clashing of Gyves together which is the Death Rattle of a man's
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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This most Dishonest Person, however, did me unwittingly a trifle of good, and at all events saved me from Gyves and Stripes.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Artillery Horse, where I lay, face downwards, and in a kind of stupor, as listless as a Miller's Sack; and so, my Gyves jingling and clattering, I was conveyed away.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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The Rough Soldiers burst into the House, and, to prevent any misunderstanding about me, a Cloth (for which I was quite unprepared) was thrown over my head from Behind; and while I was yet struggling to free myself from this blinding Incumbrance, the Gyves were passed over my Wrists and Ankles.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Gyves had just bought a drove of negroes, and was marking them in his pen, - a slit in one ear and an underbit in the other was Luke's mark, - and
The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches, 1853
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This wasn't necessarily a shocker for Gyves, who said he expected to land somewhere in Eastern Europe.
TradingMarkets 2010
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Asked what Gyves plans to do when his term is up, the 1997 California State University,
TradingMarkets 2010
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