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  • He turned: Hagrid was bound and trussed, tied to a tree nearby.†   (source)
  • At which point I would hardly be needed, for, without guards, the captain and crew could quickly free themselves and truss up the pirates.†   (source)
  • Once I'm there I can survive by stealing loaves of French bread and salami from the local Safeway supermarket, and sleep on Johnson's Beach while listening to the sounds of the cars rumbling across the old evergreen Parker truss bridge that leads into the city.†   (source)
  • Directly ahead, two thirty-foot-high gold griffins guarded a massive timber gate-recessed twenty yards into the base of Tronjheim-which was shadowed by thick trusses that supported an arched vault far overhead.†   (source)
  • No cables, no piers, no trusses.†   (source)
  • Workers using the traveler could lift and position two trusses at a time.†   (source)
  • Inside this were large pavilions of a grayish fabric that looked like plastic, supported by metal trusses in such a way that each reared up, and was airy within, and was resistant to the wind and rain.†   (source)
  • He'll be delivered to the Baron all properly trussed like a roast for the oven.†   (source)
  • Maybe, but it's L.A., so they'll be teeny-tiny Chihuahuas all trussed up in designer bags, so how much damage can they do.†   (source)
  • Soon the coach was trussed like a rodeo calf and dumped with the other loot—crates of food, extra weapons, even the magical ice chest from the mess hall.†   (source)
  • They began mobilizing my liver, cutting away its ligaments and trusses.†   (source)
  • Then Mr. Clutter was taken into the furnace room, hit on the head, gagged, and trussed.†   (source)
  • Alec stopped dead, knowing that with a single flick of her wrist Isabelle could jerk him off his feet and land him in a trussed bundle on the hardwood floor.†   (source)
  • The planes come sparking out of the mountains to the south, glinting in the haze as they approach in a long line to make their landings, and I see the open-steel truss of the waste facility at the end of the road.†   (source)
  • He was wearing two coats and two pairs of pants, so trussed-up his arms stuck almost straight out at his sides.†   (source)
  • DeeDee smiled and covered me with heated blankets until I was trussed tight as a burrito.†   (source)
  • Like a great trussed roast you smell!†   (source)
  • Big words from a guy who's trussed up like a turkey.†   (source)
  • When their breakfast was over, and their packs all trussed up again, it was after ten o'clock, and the day was beginning to turn fine and hot.†   (source)
  • Even Max trussed up, in bad shape, thrown into the truck with them, would be fabulous, such a welcome It was Jeb!†   (source)
  • He fished around again for the keys to Ted's truck, then jogged out to the garage and gathered some bungee cords and wire, which he used to truss Ted up.†   (source)
  • Stories of buddies found trussed like pigs, disemboweled with their severed genitals in their mouths circulated, as did horrifying accounts of boys staked in the hot sun, forced to endure the voracious bugs who savored the honey rubbed into the prisoner's eyes and mouth.†   (source)
  • I was trussed like a festival-day goat, but they' tied Helene's hands in front of her with twine and propped her on the back of a pony, assuming she was harmless.†   (source)
  • No. I only know that I had him neatly trussed, all ready to be arrested, when that idiot from Trollhättan took charge of the situation.†   (source)
  • YOUNG SINGERS of little experience and old ones of poor voice often found themselves in Bologna in a theater that was supported by huge trusses and timbers arrayed against its bulging outer walls.†   (source)
  • The bridge was to be a single twelve-hundred-foot truss span.†   (source)
  • Puller didn't think he was dead, because he was trussed up.†   (source)
  • If Booth does indeed get the chance, he is allowed to capture the president, truss him like a pig, subject him to a torrent of verbal and mental harassment, and even punch him in the mouth, should the opportunity present itself.†   (source)
  • If for any reason they went out, they were cuffed and shackled and trussed.†   (source)
  • He was blindfolded, gagged, and trussed securely in what appeared to me to be a professional manner.†   (source)
  • From Mahesh and Shoba I had heard dreadful stories of that time, of casual killings over many months by soldiers and rebels and mercenaries, of people trussed up in disgusting ways and being made to sing certain songs while they were beaten to death in the streets.†   (source)
  • But I'll have her on that plane if I have to truss her up and send her air freight.†   (source)
  • I was thinking of ordering an electric truss from Petersburg-cash on delivery-I saw it in an advertisement.†   (source)
  • In the next column, a fat black advertisement proclaimed that Dr. Hustletter's Trusses were the Medical Triumph of the Age.†   (source)
  • He read the second story level of signs across the street, Joltz Nature System, Honest John Trusses, No Toothless Days.†   (source)
  • But he was trussed up tight and could not move.†   (source)
  • I take the chicken, wrapped in butcher's paper and trussed with string.†   (source)
  • Shields lined the walls, and the wood ceiling was trussed with curved beams.†   (source)
  • I'd be delivered to them trussed up like a Christmas goose.†   (source)
  • All evening Rémy had been impressed with this trussed man's ability to stay calm.†   (source)
  • He had pure-white hair and a thick, bushy beard: a trussed-up Father Christmas.†   (source)
  • We've just trussed up three pirates, and I gather you've taken care of all the others?†   (source)
  • Almost had me all trussed up in a jiffy!†   (source)
  • Joff had the Antler Men trussed up naked in the square below, antlers nailed to their heads.†   (source)
  • As he twisted in place, he saw Arya next to him, trussed and suspended in the same manner.†   (source)
  • Zalachenko suddenly felt elated and would have burst out laughing had he not been so trussed up.†   (source)
  • He was trussed in some sort of wrapping and he'd begun to bleed again.†   (source)
  • He was trussed up like a chicken, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't apprehensive.†   (source)
  • They found four additional men-the purser, the bosun, the ship's cook, and the ship's cook's assistant-all of whom were trundled out of bed, knocked on the head if they resisted, and then securely trussed.†   (source)
  • The dignified surroundings, however, did little to camouflage the less than dignified state of affairs in the rear of the plane where, in a separate seating area near the rest room, Teabing's manservant Rémy sat with the pistol in hand, begrudgingly carrying out Teabing's orders to stand guard over the bloody monk who lay trussed at his feet like a piece of luggage.†   (source)
  • He might have taken some comfort in that if he had not been trussed up like a goose and lashed to a saddle.†   (source)
  • Then she asked Glaedr if he had any advice as to how the Varden could capture Dras-Leona without it costing them an unacceptableamount of men and materiel, as well as, in her words, "handing over Eragon and Saphira to the Empire, like so many trussed-up chickens."†   (source)
  • They looked like animals trussed up by children for fun and they stood waiting for they knew not what with the voice of the breaker still running in their brains like the voice of some god come to inhabit them.†   (source)
  • The two hobbits trussed their small packs, put them on ready for flight, and then crawled deeper into the fern.†   (source)
  • We can ride double, or I can throw you across the back of the horse trussed up like a sow for slaughter.†   (source)
  • Lewys the Fishwife and Omer Blackberry waited at the postern gate, two guards bound and trussed at their feet.†   (source)
  • My father has eaten everything on his plate and is digging for more stuffing in the cavity of the turkey, which resembles a trussed, headless baby.†   (source)
  • His paws were trussed with duct tape.†   (source)
  • Lady Ermesande was duly trotted out for their approval, all trussed up in a little gown of cloth-ofgold, with the green fretty and green pale wavy of House Hayford rendered in tiny beads of jade.†   (source)
  • A goat and four rabbits were hung upside down in a window, trussed at the hind legs, less affectingly dead than the flounder in the market—dumb scuzzy fur with nothing to impart.†   (source)
  • The instructors were warders with big boots and sticks; the poems were hymns of praise to the President and the African madonna; the people being compelled to repeat the lines were those young men and boys from the villages, many of whom had been trussed up and dumped in the courtyard and were being maltreated in ways I don't want to describe.†   (source)
  • Bill McGovern had been standing guard over the trussed prisoner, wondering the while that he had killed a man that day and felt no guilt at the time or after.†   (source)
  • It makes everybody crowd around, here in this shadowless steel-trussed hall with the rose-like posters of Nelson Eddy and the testimonial for the mind-reading horse in handwriting magnified five hundred times.†   (source)
  • Basins of grubs and caterpillars; baskets of trussed-up hens, squawking when they were lifted by one wing by the vendor or a prospective buyer; dull-eyed goats on the bare, scuffed ground, chewing at rubbish and even paper; damp-haired young monkeys, full of misery, tethered tightly around their narrow waists and nibbling at peanuts and banana skin and mango skin, but nibbling without relish, as though they knew that they themselves were soon to be eaten.†   (source)
  • George Post's design called for twenty-two trusses, each weighing two hundred tons.†   (source)
  • He had not thought of combining a truss with an arch, that day.†   (source)
  • I've figured out a truss that will beat anything ever built!†   (source)
  • You see, it's a matter of combining a truss with an arch.†   (source)
  • Listen, you know the contraption you called the Rearden Truss, that you admired so much?†   (source)
  • A skinny girl wearing nothing but high-heeled sandals and standing on her head; a blonde dangling from a hook in the ceiling in some kind of black-leather multiple-fracture truss, blindfolded but with her mouth sagging open in a hit-me-again drool; a big woman with huge breast implants and wet red lipstick, bending over and sticking out her pierced tongue.†   (source)
  • The trusses were in place but no roof.†   (source)
  • At the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building workers employed by contractor Francis Agnew began the dangerous process of raising the giant iron trusses that would support the building's roof and create the widest span of unobstructed interior space ever attempted.†   (source)
  • Cordelia turns to the back pages of the catalogue, where the pictures are in gray and black and there are crutches and trusses and prosthetic devices.†   (source)
  • Strongboar had grown furious at that, vowing bloody vengeance on the heads of any men who would truss up warriors to die like suckling pigs.†   (source)
  • In Phoenix now, with the years blowing by, I take a drive sometimes out past the regimented typeface on the map and down through the streets named for Indian tribes and past the roofing supply and sandblasting and the condom outlet, painted now in ice-cream flavors, and finally I see the impressive open-steel truss of the waste facility down off Lower Buckeye Road, with grackles sparking across the landfill and the planes in a long line coming out of the hazy mountains to drop into approach patterns.†   (source)
  • I drive out there sometimes and see grackles sparking across the landfill, down past the Indian tribe streets, and sometimes I take our granddaughter along when she is here on a visit and we see the sage gray truss of the waste facility and the planes in their landing patterns and the showy desert plants spilling over the pastel walls above the parking area.†   (source)
  • He had devised a new type of truss.†   (source)
  • ....His first day on the ledges of the ore mines ....The day when he stood in the wind, looking down at the ruins of a steel plant ....The day when he stood here, in this office, at this window, and thought that a bridge could be made to carry incredible loads on just a few bars of metal, if one combined a truss with an arch, if one built diagonal bracing with the top members curved toHe stopped and stood still.†   (source)
  • The thing that came next did not look like a building, but like a shell of checkered glass enclosing girders, cranes and trusses in a solid, blinding, orange spread of flame.†   (source)
  • Could it seem at all sad or absurd to the others, he wondered-with his head seeming to float above his long stepsthat Market had with the years become a street of trusses, pads, braces, false bosoms, false teeth, and glass eyes?†   (source)
  • In less than a minute he too was lying on the ground, trussed so that he could not move, and before Lancelot woke the whole pageant had disappeared.†   (source)
  • It makes me think of the picture of the fools with fish and cake and the boaters with soup-ladle oars in the painting of the old master Hieronymus B.—this idle craft with the excursion strummers, roast chicken trussed in a tree; death's head in the little twigs above.†   (source)
  • Stephen looked at the plump turkey which had lain, trussed and skewered, on the kitchen table.†   (source)
  • "It's all very well calling me, m'dear!" said the same sleepy, drawly voice, "but odd's life, I cannot come to you: those demmed frog-eaters have trussed me like a goose on a spit, and I am weak as a mouse ...I cannot get away."†   (source)
  • I managed to free my hands from the ropes, with which the brute had trussed me; I always carry pencil and paper with me wherever I go, and I hastily scrawled a few important instructions on a scrap of paper; then I looked about me.†   (source)
  • We dined soon after I awoke, off a roast fowl and a pudding; I sitting at table, not unlike a trussed bird myself, and moving my arms with considerable difficulty.†   (source)
  • When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.†   (source)
  • In the porkers he saw carved out the future sleek side of bacon, and juicy relishing ham; not a turkey but he beheld daintily trussed up, with its gizzard under its wing, and, peradventure, a necklace of savory sausages; and even bright chanticleer himself lay sprawling on his back, in a side dish, with uplifted claws, as if craving that quarter which his chivalrous spirit disdained to ask while living.†   (source)
  • But when you landed, we were driven to crawl like sarpents, beneath the leaves; and then we lost sight of you entirely, until we placed eyes on you again trussed to the trees, and ready bound for an Indian massacre.†   (source)
  • Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.†   (source)
  • The young gentleman who was standing in an easy attitude on the hearth, cocking his glass at the company, with his back to the blaze and his coat tucked under his arms, something as if he were Of the Poultry species and were trussed for roasting, lost countenance at this reply; he seemed about to demand further explanation, when it was discovered—through all eyes turning on the speaker—that the lady with him, who was young and beautiful, had not heard what had passed through having fainted with her head upon his shoulder.†   (source)
  • I brought him hither; and when he woke the lad and gave his message, the lad did grumble some little for being disturbed 'so early,' as he called it, but straightway trussed on his rags and went with the youth, only saying it had been better manners that your worship came yourself, not sent a stranger—and so—†   (source)
  • It was produced by the passing of a load of newly trussed hay from the country, in a waggon marked with Farfrae's name.†   (source)
  • And about noon the lion took his little whelp and trussed him and bare him there he came from.†   (source)
  • So they were accorded to go with Sir Launcelot to his lands; and to make short tale, they trussed, and paid all that would ask them; and wholly an hundred knights departed with Sir Launcelot at once, and made their avows they would never leave him for weal nor for woe.†   (source)
  • After he took your life, cutting you down with his sharp-bladed spear, he trussed and dragged you many times round the barrow of his friend, Patroklos, whom you killed—though not by this could that friend live again.†   (source)
  • Took, gave, To-rove, broke up, To-shivered, broken to pieces, Traced, advanced and retreated, Trains, devices, wiles, Trasing, pressing forward, Travers (met at), came across, Traverse, slantwise, Traversed, moved sideways, Tray, grief, Treatise, treaty, Tree, timber, Trenchant, cutting, sharp, Tres:, hunting term, Truage, tribute, Trussed, packed, Ubblie, wafer, Host, Umbecast, cast about, Umberere, the part of the helmet which shaded the eyes, Umbre, shade, Unavised, thoughtlessly, Uncouth, strange, Underne, — A.M., Ungoodly, rudely, Unhappy, unlucky, Unhilled, uncovered, Unr the, scarcely, Unsicker, unstable, Unwimpled, uncovered, Unwrast, untwisted, unbound, Upright, flat on th†   (source)
  • The lieutenant said I slipped the truss on purpose.†   (source)
  • I threw away the goddam truss so it would get bad and I wouldn't have to go to the line again.†   (source)
  • Shruggers, hobblers, truss and harness wearers, crutch-dancers, wall inspectors, wheelchair people in bandage helmets, wound smells and drug flowers blossoming from gauze, from colorful horrors and out of the deep sinks.†   (source)
  • The girders were cold and wet with dew under his hands and he climbed carefully, feeling the sun on his back, bracing himself in a bridge truss, hearing the noise of the tumbling water below him, hearing firing, too much firing, up the road at the upper post.†   (source)
  • But I lost the truss.†   (source)
  • On the table was a pile of trusses, yellow wash-leather hoops tangled together.†   (source)
  • I went in, and it was half full o' trusses of straw, and there was some hay too.†   (source)
  • "I pray thee truss my points," said he to Wamba, "and thou shalt have a cup of sack for thy labour."†   (source)
  • "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of straw.†   (source)
  • A priest and a witch can mingle in delight upon the truss of straw in a dungeon!†   (source)
  • And thinking the labourer did not understand him, he added, "Anything in the hay-trussing line?"†   (source)
  • Some Sileni of the throng sat on benches and hay-trusses by the wall; and one of them recognized her.†   (source)
  • It was the commoner girls who worked upstairs at the heavy tasks of truss-making and the finishing of artificial limbs.†   (source)
  • The unhappy man, lying flat on a truss of straw, was dying; his body was covered with dark patches, he had long ago lost consciousness.†   (source)
  • Not a chicken or turkey or duck in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.†   (source)
  • From school duties she was exonerated: Mrs. Fairfax had pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pastry, to truss game and garnish desert-dishes.†   (source)
  • It was a place flanked by hay-barns, into which tons of fodder, all in trusses, were being packed from the waggons she had seen pass the inn that morning.†   (source)
  • But glimpses were to be caught of a roast leg of pork bursting into tears of sage and onion in a metal reservoir full of gravy, of an unctuous piece of roast beef and blisterous Yorkshire pudding, bubbling hot in a similar receptacle, of a stuffed fillet of veal in rapid cut, of a ham in a perspiration with the pace it was going at, of a shallow tank of baked potatoes glued together by their own richness, of a truss or two of boiled greens, and other substantial delicacies.†   (source)
  • As to Bazin, he went and lay down on a truss of straw; and as he had more imagination than the Swiss, he dreamed that Aramis, having become pope, adorned his head with a cardinal's hat.†   (source)
  • "Wait a minute, we'll make him tidy first," and Lizaveta Petrovna laid the red wobbling thing on the bed, began untrussing and trussing up the baby, lifting it up and turning it over with one finger and powdering it with something.†   (source)
  • Whether he shall be put into the main road by constables, or by beadles, or by bell-ringing, or by force of figures, or by correct principles of taste, or by high church, or by low church, or by no church; whether he shall be set to splitting trusses of polemical straws with the crooked knife of his mind or whether he shall be put to stone-breaking instead.†   (source)
  • Last year he helped our people to bring in the straw; he carried as many as six trusses at once, he is so strong.†   (source)
  • He then took some hay from a truss which was slung up under the van, and, throwing a portion of it in front of the horses, made a pad of the rest, which he laid on the ground beside his vehicle.†   (source)
  • It was the May truss, which the clerks of the clerks' law court had deposited that morning at the door of a president of the parliament, in honor of the solemnity of the day.†   (source)
  • After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them the order of battle.†   (source)
  • The waggon, from its position, seemed to have been left there for the night, for beyond about half a truss of hay which was heaped in the bottom, it was quite empty.†   (source)
  • —till they finally reached the hands of the Chief Equerry in Waiting, who gazed a moment, with a pallid face, upon what had caused all this dismay, then hoarsely whispered, "Body of my life, a tag gone from a truss-point!†   (source)
  • His house from top to bottom is placarded with inscriptions written in large hand, round hand, printed hand: "Vichy, Seltzer, Barege waters, blood purifiers, Raspail patent medicine, Arabian racahout, Darcet lozenges, Regnault paste, trusses, baths, hygienic chocolate," etc. And the signboard, which takes up all the breadth of the shop, bears in gold letters, "Homais, Chemist."†   (source)
  • She had recognized the fact that all around her was wall, that below her there was a pavement covered with moisture and a truss of straw; but neither lamp nor air-hole.†   (source)
  • At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers.†   (source)
  • For a time these arrangements worked well, it being the custom to truss in the respective stack-yards, before bringing it away, the hay bought at the different farms about the neighbourhood; so that Henchard was often absent at such places the whole week long.†   (source)
  • Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a good, crackling fire; then, the only bed in the hut being occupied by Cosette, each threw himself on a truss of straw.†   (source)
  • To the right of the Tournelles, that truss of enormous towers, black as ink, running into each other and tied, as it were, by a circular moat; that donjon keep, much more pierced with loopholes than with windows; that drawbridge, always raised; that portcullis, always lowered,—is the Bastille.†   (source)
  • He cut and cut his trusses two days more, and then he concluded his hesitancies by a sudden reckless determination to go to the wedding festivity.†   (source)
  • It was, since he could not escape from the Pope of the Fools, from Jehan Fourbault's bannerets, from May trusses, from squibs and crackers, to go to the Place de Grève.†   (source)
  • In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty checker-board.†   (source)
  • to stop passers-by, to empty small purses, and to honestly lighten heavy ones; to shelter travelling families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even for the flies which his dog eats!†   (source)
  • For the same reason his orders to Henchard to proceed to this and that country farm trussing in the usual way were always given through a third person.†   (source)
  • The thoroughfare leading to this spot was now blocked by two four-horse waggons and horses, one laden with hay-trusses, the leaders having already passed each other, and become entangled head to tail.†   (source)
  • On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, two of whom were municipal guardsmen.†   (source)
  • At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the Rue de Paris was littered with trusses of straw upon which lay a heap of prisoners, whom the man of Lyons, Lagrange, harangued valiantly.†   (source)
  • He used to reckon his sacks by chalk strokes all in a row like garden-palings, measure his ricks by stretching with his arms, weigh his trusses by a lift, judge his hay by a chaw, and settle the price with a curse.†   (source)
  • On a day when Henchard was on the premises he saw his step-daughter enter the hay-barn on this errand; and, as there was no clear spot on which to deposit the provisions, she at once set to work arranging two trusses of hay as a table, Mockridge meanwhile standing with her hands on her hips, easefully looking at the preparations on her behalf.†   (source)
  • Thenceforward the full sacks, looped with the shining chain, went scurrying up and down under the cat-head, hairy arms were thrust out from the different door-ways, and the grain was hauled in; trusses of hay were tossed anew in and out of the barns, and the wimbles creaked; while the scales and steel-yards began to be busy where guess-work had formerly been the rule.†   (source)
  • Then there was trussing of harness and baggage and great carriage.†   (source)
  • But they were still trussed up and now came the tricky business of releasing them from their bonds.†   (source)
  • Fowl, if suitably trussed and caged, I have nae argument with.†   (source)
  • It was a fine sight to see them, these great air machines hovering over the trussed-up giants.†   (source)
  • The servants trussed his clothes up, dragged him on,
    the flesh on his body quaking now with terror.†   (source)
  • When the Fleshlumpeater saw that he was trussed up like a turkey, he gave a yell so loud that the heavens trembled.†   (source)
  • When I woke, I was trussed up in the wagon wi' the chickens, jolting down the road toward Fort William.†   (source)
  • Their master now,
    heaving in torment, felt the back of each animal
    halting before him here, but the idiot never sensed
    my men were trussed up under their thick fleecy ribs.†   (source)
  • So they left him, trussed in his agonizing sling;
    they clapped on armor again, shut the gleaming doors
    and ran to rejoin Odysseus, mastermind of war.†   (source)
  • It was an amazing spectacle, those nine helicopters winging through the sky, each with a trussed-up fiftyfoot-long giant slung underneath it.†   (source)
  • There were six well-trained efficient men working on each giant and within ten minutes eight out of the nine giants had been trussed up like chickens and were still snoring contentedly.†   (source)
  • And about noon the lion took his little whelp and trussed him and bare him there he came from.†   (source)
  • Full thin it lay, by culpons* one and one, *locks, shreds
    But hood for jollity, he weared none,
    For it was trussed up in his wallet.†   (source)
  • So they were accorded to go with Sir Launcelot to his lands; and to make short tale, they trussed, and paid all that would ask them; and wholly an hundred knights departed with Sir Launcelot at once, and made their avows they would never leave him for weal nor for woe.†   (source)
  • The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and puddings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.†   (source)
  • I was surrounded by the stale smut of clubmen, stories to disturb callow youth, ads for transparencies, truedup dice and bustpads, proprietary articles and why wear a truss with testimonial from ruptured gentleman.†   (source)
  • And one night I went in with a fellow into one of their musical evenings, song and dance about she could get up on a truss of hay she could my Maureen Lay and there was a fellow with a Ballyhooly blue ribbon badge spiffing out of him in Irish and a lot of colleen bawns going about with temperance beverages and selling medals and oranges and lemonade and a few old dry buns, gob, flahoolagh entertainment, don't be talking.†   (source)
  • Then there was trussing of harness and baggage and great carriage.†   (source)
  • They all flocked to see what was in the cart, and when they recognised their townsman they were filled with amazement, and a boy ran off to bring the news to his housekeeper and his niece that their master and uncle had come back all lean and yellow and stretched on a truss of hay on an ox-cart.†   (source)
  • Thus on some silver swan, or tim'rous hare, Jove's bird comes sousing down from upper air; Her crooked talons truss the fearful prey: Then out of sight she soars, and wings her way.†   (source)
  • For, sudden, in the fiery tracts above, Appears in pomp th' imperial bird of Jove: A plump of fowl he spies, that swim the lakes, And o'er their heads his sounding pinions shakes; Then, stooping on the fairest of the train, In his strong talons truss'd a silver swan.†   (source)
  • The carter yoked his oxen and made Don Quixote comfortable on a truss of hay, and at his usual deliberate pace took the road the curate directed, and at the end of six days they reached Don Quixote's village, and entered it about the middle of the day, which it so happened was a Sunday, and the people were all in the plaza, through which Don Quixote's cart passed.†   (source)
  • Not with more ease the falcon, from above, Trusses in middle air the trembling dove, Then plumes the prey, in her strong pounces bound: The feathers, foul with blood, come tumbling to the ground.†   (source)
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