iron collar in a sentence
Examples
- Bliss was left in the strong room for three weeks wearing a skullcap ( a heavy vice for the head ), thumb screws, iron collar, leg irons, and irons round his ankles called sheers.
- Sam was sentenced to forever wear " a strong Iron collar affixed about his neck with four sprigs . " Should he leave his master's plantation or remove the collar, he would be hanged.
- Iron was removed from the outside of the original gun barrel near to the muzzle so that a cast iron collar could be screwed over it and provide a shoulder at the muzzle to hold the A tube in place.
- A version of this story circulating in 1836, recounted by Martineau, added that the slaves were emaciated, showed signs of being flayed with a whip, were bound in restrictive postures, and wore spiked iron collars which kept their heads in static positions.
- Initially slaves the lash, plus, at times, an iron collar and a straitjacket . Branding, the policy of one overseer and not continuous official policy of the managers, ceased within a decade of the Church taking on ownership of the Plantation.
- In that book, Oedipus is " the iron collar " that leads us to see all desire in terms of " the father-mother-child triangle " and that therefore prepares us for the capitalist formation " Mister Capital, Madame Earth and their child the Worker ."
- In that battle, he and Legolas engaged in an Orc-slaying contest ( Gimli won by one; he killed 42 to Legolas's 41 ), although he received a minor head injury and his axe was notched on the iron collar of the forty-first Orc or Uruk.