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She had ligature marks on her wrists and ankles.ligature = from something used to tie or bind
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I finished listing the muscles of the hand and started in on the ligatures when Arwyl waved me into silence and asked his next question.† (source)ligatures = things such as cord used to tie or bind
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He secured the needle in place with ligatures, his hands a blur as he pushed one knot down over another.† (source)
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Some of the hacked swords were tied to the wrists of those who carried them, with strips of linen and fragments of dress: ligatures various in kind, but all deep of the one colour.† (source)
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As the Orientals say, "A cur's tail may be warmed, and pressed, and bound round with ligatures, and after a twelve years' labor bestowed upon it, still it will retain its natural form."† (source)
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By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, they added to the system of ligatures which rendered every attempt at escape impossible, that sort of bond which is called in prisons a martingale, which, starting at the neck, forks on the stomach, and meets the hands, after passing between the legs.† (source)
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And she has ligature marks on her wrists, and when they search my apartment, there on the headboard of my bed are two ties—like, neckties—tucked down near the mattress, and the ties are, quote, 'consistent with the ligature marks.'† (source)ligature = something used to tie or bind
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A bold cut down the belly, and a few touches here and there where the ligatures still bound the hide to the body, and the animal was flayed.† (source)ligatures = things such as cord used to tie or bind
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No ligature marks on the neck.† (source)ligature = something used to tie or bind
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So tightly had the ligatures been drawn, that the use of his limbs was not immediately recovered, and the young giant presented, in good sooth, a very helpless and a somewhat ludicrous picture.† (source)ligatures = things such as cord used to tie or bind
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I'd seen enough ligature marks to know what it meant.† (source)ligature = something used to tie or bind
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There was a sort of sham soldier, a "naquois," as the slang expression runs, who was whistling as he undid the bandages from his fictitious wound, and removing the numbness from his sound and vigorous knee, which had been swathed since morning in a thousand ligatures.† (source)ligatures = things such as cord used to tie or bind
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The midwife was putting a ligature on the navel before cutting the cord.† (source)ligature = something used to tie or bind
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Their union had existed but two short seasons, and its fruits now lay sleeping at her feet, wrapped in the customary ligatures of skin and bark, which form the swaddlings of an Indian infant.† (source)ligatures = things such as cord used to tie or bind
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A few hours after the operation, a ligature of one of the blood vessels into the lung cavity gave way, and Dr. Sasaki suffered severe hemorrhaging for nearly a week.† (source)ligature = something used to tie or bind
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"Run out one of the poles, Sarpent, if Sarpent you be," said Hurry, amid the groans that the tightness of the ligatures was beginning to extort from him—"run out one of the poles, and shove the head of the scow off, and you'll drift clear of us—and, when you've done that good turn for yourself just finish this gagging blackguard for me."† (source)ligatures = things such as cord used to tie or bind
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