"Handcuff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... else the law requires." Mr. Terry handed a glass to the breathless constable, who bowed his respects to the company generally, smacked his lips as a public token of satisfaction, and proceeded to handcuff and search his prisoner. Several blasting cartridges with long fuses, and other incendiary material, were the results ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell
... always some one who is en vue for the moment. To-day it was a man who had invented a machine to count the pulse. He strapped a little band on your wrist and told you to concentrate your thought on one subject, then a little pencil attached to the leather handcuff began muffing up and down slowly or quickly, as your ...
— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
... upon the stage and began her famous interpretation of the great scene in which she chloroforms the detective, breaks open the safe, shoots the policeman who attempts to handcuff her, smashes the glass in the window with the piano stool and makes her getaway by sliding down the railing of ...
— A Book Without A Title • George Jean Nathan
... miss," said the other man. "All marshals handcuff themselves to their prisoners to keep them from getting away. Mr. ...
— Waifs and Strays - Part 1 • O. Henry
... to her treatment of Mary of Medici; and the answer was, "Only that influence which every strong mind has over a weak one." Cannot Caesar in irons shuffle off the irons and transfer them to the person of Hippo or Thraso the turnkey? Is an iron handcuff so immutable a bond? Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of the stamp of Toussaint L'Ouverture: or, let us fancy, under these swarthy masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains. When they arrive at Cuba, will ...
— Essays, Second Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson |
