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- verb Present participle of
manacle .
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Examples
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In an essay published 60 years ago, Katharine Balderston claimed to have identified a recurrent motif of manacling and beating, begged for by Johnson and duly administered by his mother substitute.
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She started to rise, but he climbed on the bed to lie half on her, his arm manacling her waist and his leg trapping one of hers.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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My own modernisation plan involves manacling two each of the worst 50,000 scrote to the legs of senior officers across the agencies and judges for periods of rehabilitation.
National Victim Agency – Deckchairs, Titanic. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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She started to rise, but he climbed on the bed to lie half on her, his arm manacling her waist and his leg trapping one of hers.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady Deborah Gonzales 2011
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In an essay published 60 years ago, Katharine Balderston claimed to have identified a recurrent motif of manacling and beating, begged for by Johnson and duly administered by his mother substitute.
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His hands came up from manacling my wrists to cradle my head.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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When she turned, he snatched her wrists behind her, manacling her.
Demon From The Dark Kresley Cole 2010
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Trace walked up to them, his hand manacling the wrist of a spitting-mad young woman—who looked twenty-three or twenty-four years old—wearing only his shirt.
Dragon Warrior Janet Chapman 2010
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Where is their evidence that manacling our language to past usage is at all helpful or necessary?
Snakes are evil, but save your venom for the self-appointed language police 2010
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Trace walked up to them, his hand manacling the wrist of a spitting-mad young woman—who looked twenty-three or twenty-four years old—wearing only his shirt.
Dragon Warrior Janet Chapman 2010
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