hackles

How To Use hackles In A Sentence

• As he was walking past a ship chandler's shop, he was shocked to see handcuffs, leg shackles, and thumbscrews in the window.
• She ran forward and quickly undid the shackles on his wrists and ankles.
• So if anyone tries to tell you how to behave, your hackles will rise and the fiery side of your nature will come to the fore. The Sun
• A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles.
• Politically incorrect from the title on, this guide to old-fashioned coquetry has raised the hackles of every feminist writer worth her salt.
• Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• She saw Avery in the prison yard hanging from the shackles on his wrists.
• Those two will only get better now the shackles have been taken off by the Tottenham star. The Sun
• More so due to being free from the shackles of domestic unrest. The Sun
• The men roughly pulled Prudence and the others from the wagon and put cast iron shackles around their wrists, attaching them to the cart so they wouldn't get away.