Far better to die for our country than to go with fettered hands into captivity!
He pulled at the rim with his fettered hands and hurled himself into the darkness, betting on the former.
With fettered hands and fettered ankles linked by a chain, Laura was thoroughly hobbled.
"If you'll - "and held out her fettered hands.
Hugh only observed that Barnaby walked with a drooping head among his guard, and, without raising his eyes, that he tried to wave his fettered hand when he passed.
His fettered hands bent sharply upward at the wrists, fingers touching the left sleeve of his coat.
Unfeeling though the soldiers were, they yet permitted their prisoner to stop an instant, while he, raising his fettered hands to heaven, gave the double blessing asked for.
It seemed irresponsible to wait with fettered hands until, in the course of some weeks, we should be gagged as well.
Then Joan held out her fettered hands sorrowfully toward these unfeeling men and said: "I would rather die than continue so.
But his fettered hands were clenched against his breast, and his lips moved, as if trying, even here, for a spell.