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Examples
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As if anything good were worth while when it has to be guarded and put in leg-irons and handcuffs in order to keep it good.
Chapter 13 2010
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To the Commissioner, Harley Kennan duly turned over Makawao, who was committed to a grass-house jail, well guarded, to sit in leg-irons against the time of trial for his many crimes.
CHAPTER XXIV 2010
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Do Mr. Sunstein and the president honestly believe that replacing red tape with green leg-irons will unleash economic growth and job creation?
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An escaped convict in leg-irons demands to know where he lives.
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Occasionally when a truck jolted there was a clank-clank of metal: all the prisoners were wearing leg-irons.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Let them post a guard in every CEOs and CFOs office and every boardroom on the Street --- and if even one decimal is accidentally moved to the right or left on the corporate ledger; clap them in leg-irons and drag them off squealing to Guantanamo.
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He was put in leg-irons for talking back to the guards.
Ellen Ladowsky: Sometimes a Candidate Is Just a Candidate 2008
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Occasionally when a truck jolted there was a clank-clank of metal: all the prisoners were wearing leg-irons.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Even the most economically-challenged nation ought to be able to afford a few sets of leg-irons and a couple hundred jail cells.
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Of course, if he, too, should find himself clanking down the hallway of a federal prison in leg-irons …
Think Progress » Source to Stephanopoulos: President Bush Directly Involved In Leak Scandal 2005
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