Handcuffs
['hændkʌfs]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To find yourself handcuffed, you will be annoyed and vexed by enemies. To see others thus, you will subdue those oppressing you and rise above your associates. To see handcuffs, you will be menaced with sickness and danger. To dream of handcuffs, denotes formidable enemies are surrounding you with objectionable conditions. To break them, is a sign that you will escape toils planned by enemies.
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Examples
- I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands, remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was well he did so; for Mr. Legree, having refitted Tom's handcuffs, proceeded deliberately to investigate the contents of his pockets. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Very good,' said he, taking his hat from its peg, and putting a pair of handcuffs in his pocket as if they were his gloves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There used to be handcuffs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- With his upholsterer manner, as if the trooper were a window to be fitted up, he takes from his pocket a pair of handcuffs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You will need your handcuffs, Inspector. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In an instant Holmes clapped a pistol to his head, and Martin slipped the handcuffs over his wrists. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Handcuffs there! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- With the bound of a tiger Holmes was on his back, and an instant later Lestrade and I had him by either wrist, and the handcuffs had been fastened. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Haley now came to the door, with the handcuffs in his hands. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- My dear, interposed the Magistrate and Rector--she's only-- Are there no handcuffs? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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