| 单词 | trussed |
| 例句 | Had me trussed up in bed so I couldn’t move. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z All talked of the rebel colonel trussed and bagged by his own two slaves, that had been whipped by him previous—and there was an elation in this tale of justice reflected in all eyes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She had left Dana Matherson stripped down to his underpants and trussed to the flagpole in front of the administration building at Trace Middle School. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But a warrior struck him brutally to the ground, leaped astride the limp figure, and trussed him tightly. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Some minutes later, his corpse was lowered, trussed, and thrown into the river. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z 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. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He turned: Hagrid was bound and trussed, tied to a tree nearby. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z 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. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When I am trussed, immobile, they lever me to my feet. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The two hobbits trussed their small packs, put them on ready for flight, and then crawled deeper into the fern. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Will you tell me where exactly we are, now that I am trussed up to your satisfaction?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He might have taken some comfort in that if he had not been trussed up like a goose and lashed to a saddle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Jason ran on, his hands in his pockets fell down and lay there like a trussed fowl until Versh set him up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z 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. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Facing them were two Keepers, and next to them, trussed up like a lumpy package on the floor, was Ton-Ton. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Kufa quickly took three trussed -up chickens from the other villagers and laid them before the doctor. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She was helpless, exactly like a fly being trussed by a spider. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed the Webbs’ cat, trussed her, hung her up by her heels to a hook, and began to sharpen his knife. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I take the chicken, wrapped in butcher’s paper and trussed with string. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z At first he's surprised to see me trussed up, then he shrugs and doesn't look at me anymore. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Then Mr. Clutter was taken into the furnace room, hit on the head, gagged, and trussed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In front of us someone all trussed up in a harness and blue jumpsuit leaps into the void, and disappears down the side of the tower never to be seen again. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z An entire pig, trussed and cooked, its mouth open and stuffed with some kind of fruit. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Jon was not afraid of death, but he did not want to die like that, trussed and bound and beheaded like a common brigand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When the Fleshlumpeater saw that he was trussed up like a turkey, he gave a yell so loud that the heavens trembled. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been moving my arms, my right leg, and turning my body best as I could to keep up the muscles, but you can’t do much with your left leg trussed up. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z 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. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z 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. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were still trussed up and now came the tricky business of releasing them from their bonds. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Hesitantly, they gathered all the ropes and belts they could find and trussed up Victor like a turkey. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Joff had the Antler Men trussed up naked in the square below, antlers nailed to their heads. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z No, don’t keep her trussed — keep her trust. Style Invitational Week 1140: Give us a bad name 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z I don't like to see you come out to this clean country with oily hair and trussed up in those silk suits trying to pass yourselves off as decent Americans. GD Spradlin obituary 2011-08-16T10:48:15Z He was trussed in women’s Prada, he remembered, while she wore flowing pajamas, “with two little clips in her hair.” Death of a Muse: Manuela Pavesi, Miuccia Prada’s Close Collaborator 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Commentary included descriptions of one victim "subjected to the most awful torture, including trying to rip her tongue out", while another was "trussed with string, her head and hands sawn off". Murder documentary rapped by Ofcom 2013-08-06T12:09:18Z As for Mr. Araki, his photographs of buxom women trussed up in ever more baroque rope bondage are as acquired a taste as Marmite. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The good guy, as ever, is trussed and helpless. Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages 2011-03-13T22:52:19Z If Byron is disappointed in how mine more resembles a wad of chewed gum than the neatly trussed squares adorning my classmates’ backs, he doesn’t show it. A wilderness survival course leaves a novice camper hungry, cold and triumphant 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Her friends have commandeered the training zip line attached to the tower, and, trussed like turkeys, they’ve already made the leap. How Dev Hynes Went From Being in ‘We Are Who We Are’ to Scoring It 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Sometimes they're trussed in rope, partly covered by traditional robes, hung disconcertingly from the ceiling or positioned kneeling on the floor. Is Nobuyoshi Araki's photography art or porn? 2013-05-08T15:12:52Z They come slapped on a paper plate, trussed in corn husks still damp with steam. Tamales, for Many Meals and Courses, at Alimentos Saludables 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z His reputation rests in part on preternaturally polished images that owe a debt to Helmut Newton, whose models were often trussed in prostheses, as animated as blowup dolls. The Photographer and Auteur Steven Klein Loves to Shock, but Surreptitiously 2011-11-24T10:45:04Z The chef under a spotlight, tweezing chive blossoms in the chaos of the pass, or fanning the wood fire under a row of shimmering, trussed birds. Twilight of the Imperial Chef 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Don't cut your carrot on the board you just trussed the chicken on either. So, should you wash your chicken or not? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Shot by Mr. McDean, Ms. van Seenus is depicted wearing very little makeup, her hair is gently trussed on top of her head, and her eyebrows are bleached. Moving Through the Lens 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z After three hours, Caine, trussed in a straitjacket, is released and dumped on a sofa. Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z His trussed roosters look more like people struggling on a torture table than lunch in the offing. Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes 2010-05-19T20:29:00Z Behind a pile of rocks the other afternoon, out of sight from the road, workers scurried around a 340-ton, 21-foot-high solid granite boulder, trussed with red steel girders, gleaming under the desert sun. Los Angeles County Museum Moves a 340-Ton Rock 2011-10-07T12:00:00Z When we last saw Fring “Employee Of The Month” Chou in the Gilligan-written Season 3 finale “Full Measure,” he was trussed up like a turkey in a warehouse, only to be dramatically rescued by Mike. “Breaking Bad”: Walter faces the abyss 2012-07-23T02:59:00Z In 1936, the wrists and ankles of a thirty-five-year-old interior decorator were found trussed with lamp cord and radio wire, with two neckties and a towel twisted around his neck. The Theory That Justified Anti-Gay Crime 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z One wears an everyday business suit and tie; another is dressed in a simple T-shirt and pants, though it’s hard to make out what he’s wearing because he’s trussed up, on his knees, beaten down. ‘A Vigilante’ Review: Vengeance Is Hers 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Instead, she spends most of the movie locked in a cellar, fleeing unwashed strangers or trussed in a bag as bear bait. ‘Radioflash’ Review: The Hills Have Spies 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z The poster shot shows the cast, trussed up in hot-pink gowns, propped listlessly against a brick wall. Tossing the Bouquet Out of the Genre 2011-05-06T23:43:20Z How much of his life is spent waiting for Cher to change her outfit and get trussed up? Cher Talks About (What Else?) Being Cher 2013-07-03T20:32:07Z Pink chickens trussed and hung over an open flame swing in the smoke like condemned prisoners. In Praise of “Chef’s Table” ’s Wild Overuse of Slow Motion 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Though slight of build, she’s a match for every lunk in her path, to the point where I fully expected her to show up at state Police Headquarters with her remaining adversaries trussed like turkeys. ‘Rust Creek’ Review: A Woman Is Stranded in the Backwoods of Kentucky. What Could Go Wrong? 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Like many of my friends, I would turn on the Saturday morning cartoons to find some unfortunate character trussed inside caldrons of boiling water as drooling cannibals — supposedly African, supposedly savages — circled them. Jacqueline Woodson on Africa, America and Slavery’s Fierce Undertow 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z She’s trussed up in the getaway van, and her fate looks bleak. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Not the antique wooden showcases with stuffed birds carefully lined up in rows, trussed as if awaiting the charcoal grill. Where does the British Museum’s keeper of Ancient Egypt get his kicks when in Cairo? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z At one point, the singer was trussed up and hoisted into the air by four male dancers, then lowered onto a platform as though into a volcano - a virgin sacrifice. Kicking off tour, Madonna shows she's no lady (Gaga) 2012-05-31T22:20:47Z With his hands and legs trussed up and his mouth gagged, Rwanda’s most prominent dissident was relieved when after two days in detention, his blindfold was finally taken off. ‘No One Can Silence Me’: Paul Rusesabagina on His Captivity in Rwanda 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Shaukeen alleges that his friend was beaten to death by a group of Hindu men after they spotted a cow trussed up in the back of the car. Deaths raise fresh fears over cow vigilantism in India 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z "He's not used to being all trussed up like that, you see." The Manchester puppet masters who made the stars of Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Two, trussed onto hooks, hung in each pot sent down to the sea bottom, where their carcasses would be picked to the bone by snow crab. Into the ice: A crab boat’s quest for snow crab in a Bering Sea upended by climate change 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Other sides include pumpkin raviolini with butter and sage or roasted cauliflower with pine nuts and raisins, with a turkey or chicken trussed and ready to pop in the oven. Where to find Thanksgiving dinner in the D.C. area 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The 69th annual Miss Navajo Nation Pageant began on a Monday just before 7 a.m. with three young women in long colorful dresses and aprons standing over a trio of trussed, bleating sheep. A pageant like no other: 'Can you imagine Miss USA or Miss Universe butchering a sheep?' 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z It doesn’t matter if you’re serving a massive turkey, a simple trussed chicken or a beautifully stuffed squash, Thanksgiving just isn’t complete without gravy. How to make pan gravy with or without meat drippings 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z In the 4ft gulley between the beds, Van Allen could stand, comfortably enough, without his head scraping the trussed timber roof. The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z And the deceased, when they return, are trussed in plastic wrap, as if they were decaying food that somebody tried and failed to keep fresh. The Haunted Street Children of “Tigers Are Not Afraid” 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The best of what’s on offer at Szechuan Mountain House may be characterized as creative proletarian fare that is trussed up, made bourgeois, and consummately plated. Szechuan Mountain House Gives Proletarian Fare the Palace Treatment 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z There’s no patience for trussed or hobbling clothes. Review | Wanted: Fashion designers who truly respect women. Now more than ever. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Both built their brands on the theory of the abiding power of glamour — though the Kors glamour has a certain wind-swept bronzed glow, and Versace’s is more gilded and trussed. The Continental Shock of the Kors-Versace Deal 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z On the lawns, the teams laid the trussed birds side by side, weighed them and gave them a quick inspection. Britain’s queen is counting her swans in a ritual with much poop and circumstance 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z James once created a dress ruched to resemble a Dalí-esque lobster at the height of 1930s Surrealism, and his later trussed abstractions of taffeta and wool recalled Constantin Brancusi’s metal and stone objects. A Film That Pays Homage to the Bygone Era of London Couture 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z A teenage boy is with them, his arm encased in a crude, homemade splint, trussed together with string. Rohingya Muslims: Tales of horror from Myanmar - BBC News 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Balanchine presumably found it ironic that the public recognised the value of his art only when his dancers were trussed up like precious stones. Revisiting “Jewels”, 50 years on 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The arresting image of a Perlino horse, white and pink and trussed up in celebratory bridal or the worn velvet sofa bathed in afternoon sunlight, are uncertain and exacting, at the same time. A Pilgrimage of Self Discovery in Africa 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z "At that point, he was essentially trussed up," Ashton told reporters. Malaysia Airlines Jet Returned to Australia over Bomb Scare 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “At that point he was essentially trussed up,” Ashton said. Police defend 90-minute delay to remove passengers in Melbourne plane drama 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z I felt like a trussed turkey as the time came to give the rope that tethered me to the oak a pull. Seeing the forest for the trees: What one oak tells us about climate change 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z When trussed in a tie, he sees himself as a pitiful Don Draper wannabe, he added, while unsecured collars remind him of slovenly undergrads. Can I Button My Shirt All the Way Without a Tie—and Not Look Pretentious? 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z The living room has a ceiling trussed with pine beams and glass doors with views over Brown’s Bay, Mr. Meade said; a dining area is to the right of the living room. House Hunting in ... Antigua 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z "They were worried they wouldn't get the R rating. I would have had her trussed up like a suitcase and hoisted to the ceiling," she said. Honorary Oscar for British 'trailblazer' editor Anne V Coates - BBC News 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z I would have had her trussed up like a suitcase and hoisted to the ceiling. From 'Lawrence of Arabia' to 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' Anne Coates is Hollywood's premiere editor 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Yes, eating a big meal while wearing one of those neatly belted jackets might leave you feeling uncomfortably trussed — so put down the fork sooner rather than later. The potent Hollywood glamour of Tom Ford: It takes a woman, not a girl, to tame these clothes 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The hotel is being trussed up tighter than Reid Hoffman’s trousers. Bilderberg staff make last nervy tweaks before arrival of the rich and powerful 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z With the camels trussed up like Christmas gifts, wearing their satellite tracking collars and settled between bales of hay, in fading light we set off on the 250-mile-journey into the desert. Can Angry Young Males Save a Critically Endangered Camel? Some 10,000 years ago a woman in the last stages of pregnancy met a terrible death, trussed like a captive animal and dumped into shallow water at the edge of a Kenyan lagoon. Stone-age massacre offers earliest evidence of human warfare 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Johnson died of blood loss and suffocation after Curry-Demus trussed her up and cut her baby from her. Fetal abduction: brutal attacks against expectant mothers on the rise in US 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z They carried trussed goats and bundles of food looted from Kargbo’s village. The Rights of Refugees Who Do Wrong 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z He was on his back all trussed up.” Child tied up in locked car in Gainesville, Georgia, mother charged 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Earlier in October, rescuers tried to save a fin whale that became tightly trussed up in line off Laguna Beach. Rescuers work to free humpback whale from fishing line off California 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z The roughly 3,700-square-foot home includes a large living room with a trussed ceiling. Great Grape Getaways 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the clothes were so loaded with ruffles, ruching, strapping, and other busy details that many models looked trussed up rather than dressed up. Milan Fashion Week Recap: Weekend 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z And on the far side was a shelter made of dried palm fronds trussed together. Love in a time of conflict - BBC News 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Ajengui said she was hung in the notorious “roast chicken” position — trussed and suspended naked from an iron bar — for 16 hours as the police threatened to violate her with their batons. Women in Tunisia Tell of Decades of Police Cruelty, Violence and Rape 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Pendulum We start with a close-up of Twigs’s mouth, and a slow zoom-out reveals her trussed in ropes of her own hair, suspended from a ceiling. The art of FKA Twigs’ music videos dissected 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z On a recent chilly January morning, trussed up in hand-knit shawls, next to a warm radiator, she summed up her life simply: “115 years are a lot.” Raw Eggs and No Husband Since ’38 Keep Her Young at 115 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Those who didn’t die were trussed up and tossed into the waters of Lake Chad, where they drowned. In Nigeria, satellite images shed light on Boko Haram's rampage 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z They had been trussed up, thrown on to police trucks and taken to the nearby town of Cocula, the attorney general said. Missing-student fury rocks president 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z His lawyers said he is "trussed up like an animal", with guards "straddling his back", and is placed in a "torture chair". Force feedings that test US secrecy 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z There was her performance of Unconditionally at the 2013 American Music Awards – trussed up in a Kimono and busting geisha moves with the slightest hint of slanty-eyed makeup. From Katy Perry to Avril Lavigne, pop culture is peddling racism 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z When the Spam arrived, a prefab-pink stripe embedded in a triangle of rice trussed with nori, I turned to my dubious companions and said, “This will be the best thing we eat tonight.” Hungry City: Onomea in Williamsburg 2013-12-19T20:23:38Z Five were trussed, their backs marked with red welts. Brutality of Syrian Rebels Posing Dilemma in West 2013-09-05T04:02:45Z He was taken on a 45-minute journey where he lay, in the words of one member of the public, 'trussed up like a chicken'. Parents criticise police over death 2013-04-26T17:29:26Z She awakens, trussed up like a side of beef next to half-eaten human cadavers – leading one to believe her attacker probably has a taste for human flesh. Tomb Raider hands-on preview 2013-01-04T13:08:42Z The luggage trolleys are now trussed together in the car park gathering dust and cobwebs. Spain's stampede of white elephants 2012-07-26T22:59:48Z Previously unpublished photographs show a man trussed up and slung beneath a wooden bar being beaten on the soles of his feet. France's war in Algeria explored 2012-06-16T23:36:46Z He lay on the ground whining dismally, while the soldiers hastily trussed him up with a length of stout cord. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z They look very clean and attractive when dressed for market; an old bird, cleverly trussed, will be, apparently, as delicate and transparent in skin and flesh as an ordinary chicken. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z He developed a long room with a central pool; French doors opened to the breezes on three sides under a stenciled trussed ceiling. | Cuba: Cuba/Streetscapes - The New York-Accented Architecture of Havana 2012-03-16T12:27:31Z In a few minutes all the European members of the staff lay trussed up on the slope of the embankment, Captain Espejo himself superintending the operation. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z There was a sharp, fierce struggle; and when it came to an end Hargreave was trussed to a chair. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z I had hurled my trussed body forward on the cords, struggling, 198 convulsed with a fury so frantic that the blood sprayed me where the bonds cut. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Before I fairly realized what was happening, they had me trussed up like a Christmas turkey, gagged with my own handkerchief, and loaded into the cab of the engine. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z It looks seriously Baltic over there, they're all trussed up like Scott and Oates. Live - Six Nations 2012-02-11T16:42:06Z The negro was trussed up and the local constable was summoned by telephone. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z No, you will be drawn through the streets, trussed hand and foot, on a hurdle. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z I fought and strained and writhed, but they tied me, bracing me up stiff against the wet stake, trussed like a fowl for basting. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Health professionals refer to them as “permanent patients,” trussed in red tape and essentially living in hospitals already operating on thin margins. Nowhere to Go, Patients Linger in Hospitals, at a High Cost 2012-01-03T02:51:37Z The natives were so afraid that I’d tire myself walking around that they trussed me up like a hen. The River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence The Lost Channel 2012-01-02T03:00:21.167Z The bodies of the slain were set up in a sitting posture in the bow of the canoe by being trussed under the knees with a stick as schoolboys play at cockfighting. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Jacopo needed no second bidding, and in five minutes the ancient, securely bound, was sitting like a trussed fowl in the middle of the road, alternately cursing and weeping. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z Then I felt myself being set upon my feet, a rope was passed round my waist, and I was suspended over the edge of the cliff, as helpless as a trussed fowl. The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure 2011-12-06T03:00:23.443Z “You are about as helpless as a trussed fowl.” Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z The new, or improved Lincolns, have now finer bone, with broader loins and trussed carcasses, are among the best, if not actually the best, long-wooled stock we have. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Instead, he has trussed them all up by straps and cables and dangled the mobile mess, like so much tangled laundry descending on crisscrossing lines, from the ceiling of the Guggenheim’s six-story-high rotunda. Hitler Dangles as Cattelan Gives Us the Middle Finger: Review 2011-11-11T19:54:47Z But as these were trussed by the legs and slung into the trunks of cars, many more remained unsold. In Gaddafi's town, grim mood is good for sheep 2011-11-05T18:28:43Z Four of the seven were caught in bed and trussed up before they could say Jack Robinson. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z "He can't make any one hear if he yells his best, an' I've got a little business to settle before he's trussed up for good." The Adventures of a Country Boy at a Country Fair 2011-10-08T02:00:21.640Z The sheep could be trussed up and laid upon the bottom boards. The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes 2011-10-08T02:00:20.880Z The Prussian eagle is trussed; Denmark is snuffed out. The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z To all appearances they were securely trussed up, but even then the midshipman was not satisfied. The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula 2011-10-04T02:00:17.837Z He was a comical sight thus trussed, and seemed sitting on his tail, and no taller than a barn-door fowl. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z When he came to himself he was trussed up like a bundle, with arms and ankles tied too tight for comfort. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Naked savages danced and howled round the great pot in which the trussed explorer had been placed. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z My right thigh, too, was stiffly swathed and trussed, and I thought I should stifle from the heat of the blankets. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z It was trussed with great care, so I tore away a corner of the wrappings, dived in a hand, and hauled out a copy of “Joy Bells for Young Christians,” the November number of 1899. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Then he went slowly and sadly away to the other end of the cabin, and “trussed” himself in a corner. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z She waded in the pond during the whole afternoon, her skirts trussed up scandalously, emerging with a stocking of black mud on either foot. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z He wore a doublet of black satin, slashed with cloth of silver; and black velvet trunks trussed and tagged with the same. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Joe fetched him, and he stood before me, arms trussed up and head hanging. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z In their wadded football suits, stuffed out of all human recognition, they resembled trussed fowls. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z August 18.—The strange crane lies trussed in a corner of the saloon. The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn 2011-10-03T02:00:28.483Z The BBC couldn't and wouldn't be allowed to do that; a judge with two assessors would surely be trussed in similar legalities. Don't punish innocent papers: it's the rogues that need to be regulated 2011-07-09T23:06:16Z He was then trussed up behind a soldier on horseback, and started for the “Maid in the Valley” Tavern, the rendezvous from which the journey to Goodrest was to begin. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z You are safely trussed because we thought it better sport to dangle you from a bough than to stab you where you dropped. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Take you these immediately, Marie Claire——" she waved towards a score of trussed chickens that looked like a frieze of poultry—"and set them in the pans. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z They were trussed and gagged in the same manner, and laid on the ground between their mother and uncle. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z You're like the man," Frank had remarked cheerfully, as he trussed up his trousers, "who was sentenced to die at daybreak. Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches 2011-06-15T02:00:18.907Z The men were giants, and, though I was accounted an athletic young fellow enough, I soon found myself lying on the ground, bound ankle and wrist, like a trussed chicken. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z He fought, because that was his nature, but it was in vain; they trussed his foot up high, tied the rope's end to the neck loop, and clapped a broad blind over his eyes. Bat Wing Bowles 2011-05-20T02:00:33.310Z This man was hatless, and his head was swathed about with bandages, and his right arm was trussed up in a sling. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Then while one Seminole knotted a scarf about his face to keep the gag in place, he was trussed up with rope from the coil on which he had been sleeping. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z The brown engravings, the familiar look of which had held his eyes when he lay trussed in the open, had confirmed his first suspicion of them. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z "That young one's trussed just like the baby we found," said the Captain. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z Once his man was completely trussed he turned his attention to the other, treating him to similar attentions. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z I lay upon my back and my knees were trussed up across my chest so that my chin almost touched them. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z The recently ascendant Republicans were happy to leave him trussed up just the way they found him. About New York: A Passageway for Prisoners, 40 Feet Below 2011-04-06T02:30:17Z Possibly surprise at the assault of the “scorpion,” just now unconscious and soundly trussed, had something to do with his inefficiency. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z Baked.—Put the chicken in a baking-pan, after being cleaned, prepared, and trussed. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z Families of those arrested in the past few days are terrified that their loved ones will be subjected to torture - especially "falaqa" where victims are trussed up and suspended in the air while being beaten. Running scared 2011-03-22T11:34:51Z He’d walk a thousand miles before he would let himself be trussed up in a canvas apron, and put to kneading dough for the rest of his days. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z Indeed, I scarcely care more for her than I do for a trussed fowl. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Behind him, the sarcophagus, built in haste in 1986 after the explosion in April that year, was trussed up by scaffolding to keep a wall from collapsing. Chernobyl 25 Years Later Turns Into Japanese Lesson on Meltdown 2011-03-16T05:38:43Z Roasted.—Clean, prepare, and truss the duck as a chicken, with the exception that the rump is pushed inside; the duck being much longer than a chicken, it is more sightly when so trussed. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z After the chicken is trussed, if you are going to bake it, put it into a pan without any water, for the same reason that I gave you this morning. A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery 2011-03-15T02:00:12.260Z So a deputation went to the screaming, writhing figure that lay trussed and tied on the ground, and spoke with him. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z They fell upon me as wolves upon a carcass, and no fowl was trussed as surely while a man could have counted twenty. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z Then I changed togs with him, trussed him up with my cord and started off on my own. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z Small birds are cleaned and prepared as directed for poultry, but they are not trussed, their legs being tied while tying the salt pork. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z It had not then, like a galley slave, been bound with chains, or, even as a trussed chicken, girt about with many cords. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z It had been hopeless from the first; this Sanders realised with some philosophy, as he lay stretched on the baked earth, trussed like a fowl, and exceedingly uncomfortable. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z Lawyers and family members told me of bruises on wrists and ankles that are the tell-tale mark of falaqa - a torture that involves victims being tightly trussed, hoisted into the air and beaten. Joining forces 2011-02-18T15:02:56Z In a minute the sentry was trussed, a handkerchief wedged in his mouth, and he was deposited in a corner. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z Another way to prepare them.—When cleaned, prepared, and trussed as above, envelop the bird with grape-vine leaves, then in thin slices of salt-pork, and roast or bake them. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z They trussed me up and then cut the barge loose.” Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z Major Hermann, when he lay trussed up in the ferryman's house, may have seen him, just as he may have seen me. The Woman of Mystery 2011-01-15T03:00:36.260Z Each one in his place, my beauty; you trussed like a fowl and I treading on you at my pleasure. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z After a turkey is trussed, wet the skin; dredge it well with salt and pepper, and then with a thick coating of flour. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z To roast or bake they are trussed like a chicken, as seen in the cut below. Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks 2011-03-23T02:00:22.007Z They have him trussed up inside a closet. Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z Winterson went to the wagon and from it took a small, frightened pig with its legs trussed. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z A key taken from Sing Lee opened the padlocked inner door of the houseboat, and there, crudely trussed up, lay the two prisoners, Mr. Merriman and his friend, Frank Hammond. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z After they are well trussed, or tied into shape, tie thin slices of bacon over the breasts, and put a little piece of butter inside each pigeon. The Century Cook Book 2011-01-04T03:01:10.367Z Who says a proudly middle-aged face with a few sags and wrinkles is inherently less "aesthetic" than an unnaturally youthful and immovable Joker mug that has been trussed up like a pork loin? Plastic surgeons provide a fine-looking model of success at gathering 2010-04-26T04:00:00Z The trussed man in the corner swore volubly. The Trail of Conflict He seized the Spaniard's flourishing arms from behind, then planting his knee in the small of the ducal back, by way of purchase, he held the heir of all the Saloljas trussed. A Poached Peerage Working silently and efficiently, Sing Lee bound the girl’s arms behind her, trussed her feet, and inserted a gag in her mouth. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z The first significant use of iron in this country was in a series of small trussed highway arches erected by Squire Whipple over the Erie Canal in the early 1840’s, over 60 years later. The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman There are no more restraining straps and buckles; no more pipeclay; no more propping up, like trussed fowls, of chest and shoulders; but all is free, natural, and unrestrained. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 The two sentries lay on their faces, trussed and helpless, with gags in their mouths. The Firebrand Thick vines lashed his arms to his sides until he was trussed and helpless. The Return of Tharn Aloud he added: "Have you got that swab trussed up?" A Traitor's Wooing Here, he first calls it a “suspension and trussed bridge,” which is indeed an accurate designation for a system which is not strictly a truss because it has no active lower chord. The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman Moreover, when I was trussed, this Bull seen fit to kick me on the off chance, a part which ain't referred to in polite society, especially with a boot. A Man in the Open The handkerchief was tied tightly across her mouth and her feet were securely trussed. Penny Nichols Finds a Clue Here's what we found when we got to the shelter, sir—this here party, knocked senseless, tied up like a trussed fowl, and tucked out of sight under the gorse bushes nigh the shelter. The Riddle of the Night Not till he was thus securely trussed and unable to move hand or foot, did the chief lower the revolvers with which he had kept the prisoner covered. Bert Wilson at Panama Iron suspension and trussed bridge as constructed for the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Co. at Harper’s Ferry, and on the Washington branch of this road. The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman During the remainder of that swift ride he sat voiceless and helplessly trussed. The Gray Mask I might not have recognized him, so pale and thin did he look, but it was Gordon all right, at the head of the trussed gangway, and he waved a hand at me. A Top-Floor Idyl The chain mail showed under the trussed blouses of the wine-carriers. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion If the confusion occurs in time," quoth Diogenes with his habitual carelessness, "you may still find me here trussed like a fowl to this verdommte beam. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel A party of the enemy had attempted a surprise, had been discovered and repelled, with the loss of two of their number, who were forthwith trussed for the spit. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 There are two kinds of stud or quarter partitions, common and trussed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" It won’t go much against the grain to put a couple of bullets into the two who wanted to leave us trussed up in the thicket, where we would starve to death!” Corporal 'Lige's Recruit A Story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga This trussed frame was firmly bolted through the transverse frames and the planking of the ship. Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships In the centre of the circle is the Laughing Cavalier tied to a beam, trussed like a fowl since he is to hang on the morrow. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Then the lariat twitched and whirled and loops ran along it and fastened over the guard’s wrists, rapidly getting shorter; and when it ceased, its wielder was brought to the side of his trussed victim. The Orphan In a moment three scared sailors awoke from dreams of their Breton homes, and were trussed with sailor skill. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington She stood gazing at the two-headed creature trussed to the pillars of the chamber. Daughter of the Night Thirdly, a trussed frame was laid on the inside of the transverse frames in the hold of the ship. Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships Jan is a brave soldier but he was no match for three philosophers, even though one of them at first was trussed like a fowl. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Then, suddenly, the air was full of darting ropes and in less time than it takes to tell of it the pair were hopelessly and helplessly trussed. The Orphan The old building was taken down, and a new Amphitheater arose in its place, having above it a trussed roof and supported from the sides, and no pillars obstructing the view. The Story of Chautauqua "Am I to be left here trussed up like a chicken ready for the roasting?" The Minute Boys of York Town They were soon skinned and trussed by the hungry Minimuls, and stretched along the spit. The Three Mulla-mulgars Instantly three mammoth spiders the size of my fist pounced out on him and trussed him up before he could tear loose with his feet. Tabby Shields grabbed the boots and pulled, walking backward, and soon an enraged and trussed cow-puncher came into view. The Orphan It was covered by a trussed roof supported by steel columns standing around the building, so that from every seat was an unobstructed view of the platform. The Story of Chautauqua This effective weapon he threw over the bird's head; and in a few moments the captive was so securely trussed up that he could do nothing but eye his captors with implacable and indomitable hate. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life The feline pushed down a knobbed lever and the steel clamps slid from Dollard's trussed form. Deepfreeze I was still trussed up like a turkey, but I wriggled and squirmed until I got loose. The Blind Lion of the Congo And oh, how I did enjoy seeing those twins trussed up like a pair of monstrous fowls on the kitchen floor! The Brightener He found Oliver at work in his neatly ordered clinic at the rear of the big house, busily spooning cod-liver oil into a trussed and thoroughly outraged chow named Champ. Clean Break As he struggled to break free, taut cords trussed his legs and arms like any captive animal's. Seed of the Arctic Ice Take a large fowl, and when trussed put a lump of butter inside it, and cover the breast with fat bacon. Dressed Game and Poultry à la Mode I came to my senses lying at the roadside, trussed up like a pig being taken to market. The Portal of Dreams Then, carrying the knight like a trussed hare on his spear, the victor rode onward into his own open hall, and flung his captive down in the middle of the floor. Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur He was dressed in a grey doublet and breeches, trussed with black silk points. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion His falling firelock was caught as it left his hands, and soon lay at the side of its gagged and trussed owner in the blackness along the base of a driveway wall. Bring Me His Ears This bird should be trussed like a snipe, and roasted quickly at a brisk but not a fierce fire for about fifteen or sixteen minutes. Dressed Game and Poultry à la Mode In three minutes Victor was trussed and laid upon the ground bound up like a mummy. In the Brooding Wild At night they were trussed up more closely still, and the ends of their ropes tied to iron hooks in the wall. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality When trussed in shape meat looks like a goose without wings or legs. Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners A Book of Recipes Every morning Margret brought the eggs and the trussed chickens to the Hall. An Isle in the Water Put, having trussed, six quails in a stewpan wrapped in slices of bacon. Dressed Game and Poultry à la Mode They trussed me up like a fowl for roasting. The Deaves Affair In this contest two boys are first trussed. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes Narrowly he eyed the trussed girders of the silver towers which supported the great ring, muttering to himself. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 At this Alinda smiled, and upon this they agreed, and presentlie gathered up all their jewels which they trussed up in a casket.... The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare But there was fascination, too, in the hag-like visage of those grim brick walls, checkered with innumerable dirty windows and trussed up, like a paralytic old crone, with rusty fire-escapes. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself And yet he sat there, helpless monarch, like a fowl trussed for roasting. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) In no time at all they’d have Old Bill himself trussed up in chains and carried back to the little old U.S.A., and exhibited around the country at two-bits a peek. Aces Up They leave you where you fell, but they boosted me along to this 'ere stanchion and, while Carew tickled my shoulder-blades with a knife, Ichi, using the skipper's key, trussed me up around the post. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story "How have they got you trussed up?" he asked. The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire He has seen the wounded Pierre trussed in the far corner of the scaffold, guessed that some wild deed of the lad’s stayed the judicial murder. Orphans of the Storm Then, to Norah's shocked eyes, there appeared the squirming, wriggling form of her young son trussed up in a harness that held him about his shoulders and thighs and left his arm and legs free. Death Points a Finger Accordingly, he had been forced to bind his captives like two trussed fowls while he returned to his labors. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Carlos and his chief were trussed up like mummies, and had been snarling at each other ever since the Chilean recovered his senses, each blaming the other for their predicament. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 When they were trussed so tightly that neither could move, the Viceroy smiled mockingly. Slaves of Mercury Still, the average Englishman does not like to be trussed up without showing some marked resistance. The Fiery Totem A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian North-West The boy’s horse became still, and while the youth stared Rathburn trussed up the first rider and then stood off to look at him. The Coyote A Western Story “And the murdering hounds, not content with that, trussed you up and left you here like a rat in a sewer.” The Spoilers of the Valley She’d fixed my chest up, an’ got me trussed neat an’ all, an’ set right down aside me fer a gas. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana In a voice of thunder he cried, “If you do not open that cellar door by the time I count five, you will be trussed on a spit, like a fowl!” Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck He was thoroughly trussed up, for Prince Joro's servants had a wholesome respect for the giant's strength. The Martian Cabal He was bound and trussed so tightly that he could not make a move, either. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main It was the unconscious form of Jim Langford, trussed with knotted ropes until it looked more like a bale of cast-off clothing than a human being. The Spoilers of the Valley Have the birds trussed with their legs in their bodies, but stuffed with forcemeat; parboil and lard them with fat bacon; season with pepper, spices, parsley, and minced chives; stew them very gently. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. Thus we see players whose natural movements are bold and free trussed up in a small and finicking technique, and others whose bent is towards neatness, struggling manfully with a cumbersome "large style." The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. Clear it well from the fat, put it into a stewpan with a young fowl nicely trussed, and set it over a slow fire. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Method.—Have the pigeons trussed as for stewing. The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience A bundle of rags was trussed against the post of one of the stalls. The Spoilers of the Valley "The way you've got them trussed up and guarded, Colonel," said the tall man, "I'd say they must be pretty desperate characters." Shaman His enemies had trussed him across a quarter-staff, and had tied the knots large and tight about him. Robin Hood The bird in the annexed engraving is as trussed for the spit, with its head under one of its wings. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Small cod, or salmon, if boiled whole, should be trussed in the form of the letter S. The Skilful Cook A Practical Manual of Modern Experience Shortly afterwards, Hanson, foaming at the mouth and shouting at the pitch of his voice, was trussed securely to the stanchions supporting one of the barns. The Spoilers of the Valley Next, see that your roasts and boils are all nicely trimmed, trussed, &c. and quite ready for the spit or the pot. The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual They trussed their captive with the lariat still snubbed to his saddle-horn. Rimrock Trail When very young, it is trussed, stuffed, and spitted the same as a hare. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families He pointed toward the trussed figure upon the sled, just as a wild peal of the demoniacal laughter chilled the hearts of the listeners. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country On the instructions of Pederstone, the four men carried the trussed Hanson into a nearby stable, where they made him fast with fresh ropes to some heavy stanchions. The Spoilers of the Valley In a little while he lay upon his side, trussed up as securely and helplessly as a papoose in its birch-bark carrying-cradle. Kings in Exile Sam, working like a jumping-jack, took a quick turn, flung a coil about Mormon's legs and in a few seconds, had him trussed helplessly to the rail. Rimrock Trail Previously to their being dressed, every description of game and poultry requires to be carefully picked, and neatly trussed; every plug should be removed, and the hair nicely singed with white paper. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Lay the stuffed and trussed chicken on its back on a rack in a roasting pan. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Yet, sitting there like a trussed fowl, I must have cut a pretty sorry figure. Hushed Up! A Mystery of London A rug, negligently flung over the body of the trussed Jules, hid him from observation. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas They did so in true Patagonian fashion—to wit, the ostrich was first trussed and cleaned, a roaring fire of wood having been made, round stones were made almost red-hot. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure A Wild Duck, being first drawn and trussed, must be parboiled, and then half roasted. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families They even fermented their bread and trussed their fowls after the same fashion; and thus gave evidence, in these familiar matters, that they thought and contrived "after the manner of men." The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Before this feat had been accomplished Hendrik had received a blow from one of the natives that prevented him from making any resistance; and he too was trussed up for safe keeping. The Giraffe Hunters Sailor now seized the trussed Jules from the bucket and flung him on the ground. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas “I don’t want ’em to come upon me and find a fellow skewered and trussed ready for cooking.” Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop Being cleaned and trussed, put them down to a good fire. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families "That yon traitor stole from me that songlet of the peach, and though he has trussed it out of countenance with gawds of his own invention still the root of the matter is mine." Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) It was enveloped in black cloth and trussed up firmly with stout rope. The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance Then he began to struggle, but the men who had trussed him up had done their evil work well, and he only cut his wrists on the cruel bonds. Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles Before the fire on the great hearth, meat on joints and fowl were trussed on spits, and to some small boy fell the task of keeping the spit turning. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century These are to be trussed and skewered the same as snipes and quails. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families A cord was brought, the very one that had lowered the lunch-basket, and with it Peveril was trussed like a fowl for roasting. The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines Look here, Sutgrove," he said; "this is the piece of cord with which he trussed me up on the occasion when he dropped me into the pond. The Motor Pirate My hands, which had been released long enough for me to eat, were trussed up again. A Virginia Scout Track timber not trussed on openings under 12 feet wide. Seasoning of Wood Boiled partridges require to be trussed the same as chickens: from twenty to twenty-five minutes will do them sufficiently. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families Escorting Shane to the camp, they soon had him safely trussed. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good The boys covered them with guns an’ we trussed ’em both. Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam And when the mounted police and others from Glenranald discovered the trussed youngster, not an hour later, they took the same tone. Stingaree In a moment, the sergeant, too, was trussed up, gagged, and whisked into a spare cell. Next Door, Next World An instant later the whirlwind was trussed up and confined with a hard square knot. Lady Luck When a bird is to be roasted it should be trussed. American Cookery November, 1921 "It isn't so pleasant to be trussed up in that fashion, is it?" he asked. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" “And here’s the milkmaid’s dress he shed in here after he trussed you up.” Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub It was half an hour or more before we had them all trussed up, but none of the ten escaped. The Fire People The watchman came out of their hands trussed up like a fowl for roasting, securely gagged, with a gunny sack drawn over his head and tied at the waist. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters The chicken is trussed; the breast is covered with strips of bacon and put into a deep, thick saucepan. American Cookery November, 1921 And very soon she was on her knees at the clear pool's edge, bare of arm and throat and bosom, her blue wool skirts trussed up, and elbow deep in snowy suds. Barbarians He searched us out where we lay trussed like fowls, all bound with ropes. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Although all of them were trussed up securely, he menacingly kept his little wooden revolver pointed at them from the level of his knee. The Fire People The trussed form of the M.P. was then carried out of the train. The Kangaroo Marines I have been provost-Marshal twenty years, And have trussed up a thousand of these rascals, But so near Paris yet I never met with One of that Brotherhood. The Little French Lawyer A Comedy I want you to show your arms, and not to keep them glued to your sides like trussed fowls. The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The skipper was now free to follow his own desires and he fell upon those two stunned pirates in the cabin and trussed them tight with bits of rope. Blackbeard: Buccaneer When he was well trussed up, the ranchman made a gag out of what was left of the linen and his own handkerchief and strapped it into his prisoner's mouth with his belt. Hidden Gold The captain was trussed up like a chicken now. Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds These uprights are solidly trussed and held together at the floor levels by strong iron girders supporting the iron joists of the upper floors and the light partitions which divide up each story. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896 He turned and went back to the dining cabin where Tallis was trussed up. The Highest Treason The girl—whether she was Miss Vanessa Lewis or someone else, and kidnap-wise it was still a Terrestrial girl—lay trussed on the bed, a patch of surgical tape over her mouth. History Repeats The man's sash was useful in binding his feet, and, thus trussed, they threw him under the bush. Under the Rebel's Reign Mr. May looked even more distant, drawing himself up in an odd fashion, so that he looked as if he were trussed. The Lost Girl Chichibio, who looked the new-caught gull he was, trussed the crane and setting it to the fire, proceeded to cook it diligently. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio With a quick turn of the ropes he had brought, Tom had the wrecker trussed up. The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast For this misdemeanor, which I am persuaded was based on no evil intention, he was trussed and tied down on the hatch, close to the wheel. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer His hands were folded behind his back and bound in that position, so that when his feet had been secured also, he looked like a trussed fowl. Under the Rebel's Reign He trussed himself up, when he was angry or displeased, and sharp, snip-snap came his words, rather like scissors. The Lost Girl The painter was of sufficient length to serve as bonds for the fellow's legs also, and when he was thus trussed up Jet began fashioning a gag from a piece of pine wood. Messenger No. 48 This cost the lives of two innocent hens, who, plucked, trussed, and dressed by the professor, were stuck on a stick, and soon roasted before the crackling flames. Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery I am trussed; are they going to roast me?” In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" "I would like to see your face if you were trussed up as I was—not able to speak a word—and a fiendish row going on in the passage outside." The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective The beggars were upon me and had me trussed up so that I couldn’t move hand or foot, before my eyes were fairly open. In Search of El Dorado "Am I to be kept trussed up in this fashion until then?" Messenger No. 48 There lay their new comrade, helplessly trussed and gagged, faint and weary with the close confinement, almost ready to collapse. The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow With great speed and secrecy he caused it to be 'packed in bales, trussed with baggage, as oats or old clothes, to make it bulky, and nicked with a merchant's mark.' Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts "I am sorry to see it is your turn to be trussed up in bed, Dubois," he said. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective The French King and seven lords of France went from that hut trussed like chickens. Chivalry When this order was obeyed Jet led his visitors to where the other prisoner was trussed up, and Harvey's amazement was complete. Messenger No. 48 "These three," said the deputy, solemnly, "being trussed up the way they is, looks more like chickens." The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow Then she went up to the two men, took one of them—the Tailor—cut his throat, trussed him, and put him in the oven. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore Jack trussed up his friend comfortably with the slack of the rope so that he could move neither hands nor feet. Oh, You Tex! He tied the old man's arms tightly with his girdle, trussing him as he had trussed the carcasses of sheep to be loaded upon mules. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain "I fear that Miss Farley has found me rather a disappointment," put in Lennon, and he looked at his trussed arm. Bloom of Cactus Once we got the door down and found the chap you'd trussed behind it, we had no trouble worth mentioning except with Master Ivan, who fought like a wild cat. The Grell Mystery Then the little man took some rawhide thongs and trussed up his victim. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Having, in this manner, made a sheath for his weapon, the blackguard left it there, and thus, having trussed me as with a skewer, showed me his back and fled. Rattlin the Reefer An Eagle, who was watching for his prey near the place, saw him, and, making a swoop, trussed him up in his talons, and carried him off. Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse We had the paca scientifically trussed and spitted, and placed over the fire on two forked sticks. On the Banks of the Amazon Our lads were too tightly trussed up, and stiff. Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East The former was trussed and made ready for the spit, the latter being intended for the pot, on the supposition that boiling might be better for her toughness. The Castaways At length, however, they shoved off as well, leaving me and my people lying on the deck trussed up like so many chickens. A Pirate of the Caribbees Then followed another prayer, succeeded by another address, during which the unfortunate llama was bound and trussed up so ingeniously that the unhappy creature was rendered incapable of making the least struggle. Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Canon Stewart speaks of it as a "remarkable example of a trussed rafter roof of seven cants," and says that such a roof was sometimes called a compass roof. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See Self-supporting Roofs.—In putting up, for instance, self-supporting roofs, or ceilings with wide spans, and steeples or towers, the bridge principle of trussed members should be understood. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations A tiny broiler, lying on its back, its feet neatly trussed, its skin crackly and tempting-looking, its white meat showing beneath the brown. Gigolo Leicester laughed again: and with that, Miss Belcher came back to him, slipped out the riding-crop which trussed him, and held it under his nose. The Adventures of Harry Revel "It is my impression," said French, with a smile, "that your friend Ned is trussed up in a camp over on the other side of the island!" Boy Scouts in the Philippines Or, The Key to the Treaty Box "We did so," Dicky said, "and a miserable object the poor little fat man looked, as he sat in his chair trussed up like a fowl." Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War The most simple bridge or trussed form is the well-known A-shaped arch. Carpentry for Boys In a Simple Language, Including Chapters on Drawing, Laying Out Work, Designing and Architecture With 250 Original Illustrations One of the leaders was picked up, and trussed quickly in a rope a fellow had carried. Invaders from the Infinite They trussed the big miner then, and dragging Bozeman to his feet, started out of the cross-cut with them. The Cross-Cut In a trice he was trussed up and removed. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) On the first English railways cast iron girder bridges for spans of 20 to 66 ft. were used, and in some cases these were trussed with wrought iron. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Sam Winnington in his silk stockings and points neatly trussed at the knee, was on all-fours poking the blue and red potatoes into the glowing holes. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes He trussed the guards as if they had been packs for the saddle, binding them hand and feet so that they could not move. Steve Yeager Jove's golden eagle through the crimson skies In chase of clanging marsh-fowl, swooped in flight Down on a swan, and trussed the noble prize. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor The main beams were built of timbers ranging from 10 by 10 in. to 14 by 14 in., were scarfed at the joints, and trussed with the bottom logs. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 He doesn't need to be both trussed up and gagged, you know. The Lighted Match The prisoners were pegged out on the sand, elbows trussed to knees, each captive tied to a post. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark The recruits, who openly manifested their intense amusement, cheered frantically when the trussed wretch gave an abnormally wild and ear-piercing shriek of pain. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Down swoops Jove's armour-bearer, and on high With taloned claws hath trussed him. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Fortunately, it was not long we were doomed to wait, uncomfortably trussed with our ropes of plaited grass. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France She was trussed up so securely, and was gagged so thoroughly that he could not restrain a laugh as he bent over her. The Courage of Marge O'Doone Radisson was rifled of clothes and arms, trussed at the elbows, roped round the waist, and driven with blows back to the canoes. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark As I thought of that particular kind of rock, I wondered too about my three friends, trussed like fowls, on their coral rock couches. Pieces of Eight As things go now, the butterfly cannot tilt against the beef barrel when both are trussed into armour. The Black Douglas I know not where you learned to twirl the steel, or how, but you may be sure he would spit you like a trussed fowl in the first bout. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Several of the cowboys ran up, and in a few seconds the stallion was securely trussed up. Bert Wilson in the Rockies The side framing of the car is of white ash, doubly braced and heavily trussed. The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment He was at the far end of that open space, trussed up to the starboard limbers. The Blood Ship Biff! and he and his accomplice, an erstwhile valet, had me trussed like a chicken and bundled into the clothes-press. Hearts and Masks The fowls are of the long-legged Spanish breed, coming to table like trussed ostriches; the plump English barndoor sort are about being introduced. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 Train men, rushing in, took charge of the prisoners and trussed them up securely. Bert Wilson in the Rockies They found Cunningham trussed up to a chair in the smaller room. Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story His hands were still behind his back; aye, when they trussed him up, they drew up his hands until they were on a level with his head, and secured him in that position. The Blood Ship In a few moments they lay helpless, trussed like turkeys ready for the roasting. In the Roaring Fifties She didn't care how the Sony cops had gassed and trussed me — as far as she was concerned, I'd betrayed her and nothing was going to make it right. Eastern Standard Tribe At his feet lay a native woman trussed tightly with ropes, with her body already half-charred and reeking with kerosene, but still alive and moaning faintly. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation Alice lent eager assistance, and a few moments later the inhospitable one lay trussed hand and foot. The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country Torture, agony—that is what it meant to be trussed up in that position. The Blood Ship He was not allowed to take off his overcoat, but was towed to the kitchen where the two birds, trussed and stuffed for the baking, were set forth on the table. Lydia of the Pines I felt the rope tighten upon my wrists and limbs; presently I opened my aching eyes to find myself trussed like a chicken to two legs of the table. Jacqueline of Golden River I hear that you trussed Father Blackgown like a pigeon for the spit the night that you went away. Montlivet We were quickly overpowered and brought ashore, where they trussed us up and left us as you found us. Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century It taxed all a man's self-control to face death in cold blood, trussed hand and foot and helpless as an infant. The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories In five minutes, the Cap'n, trussed hand and foot, and crowded in between Constables Nute and Wade, was riding back toward Smyrna town house, helpless as a veal calf bound for market. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul One thing I acknowledged to myself right off the reel: the Mexicans had sure trussed me up for further orders! The Killer She was a consummate cook, and the bird was fat and securely trussed. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt You are obliged to walk about stiffly, with all the appearance of a trussed fowl. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." The convoy halted and Uncle Moses in a very little time made the drivers understand that they must either do what we bade them or be trussed up and left in the woods. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow There goes a snug farmer, his wife, and good-looking daughters, seated upon a farm-car that is trussed with straw, covered by a blue quilt. Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two Weldon tells us how the king was trussed on horseback, and fixed there like a pedlar's pack or a lump of inanimate matter; the truth is, the king had always an infirmity in his legs. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Our national eminence in the art of building wooden trussed and suspension bridges is proof enough that whatever can be done to improve on the military bridge-trains of Europe may be expected at our hands. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 We have not been drawn and trussed, in order that we may be filled, like stuffed birds in a museum, with chaff and rags, and paltry, blurred shreds of paper about the rights of man. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) This old-fashioned head-dress, which was trussed up from the nape of her neck, disclosed all the softness of her fresh young throat, on which the dimple of her chin was reduplicated more vaguely and delicately. First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life My clothes were trussed securely, for dryness, on my head. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative The legs and wings can be left on and trussed outside, if liked, making it as much as possible in the original shape; but it is no better, and much more trouble. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes It took six elves to bear the weight of an ordinary meat dish on which these were; then they trussed and skewered them, and put them in small ovens. Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays Duck, in ornithology.—A trussed bridegroom, with his giblets under his arm. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 To be trussed like this, without any explanation whatever! The Goose Girl Please, sir, where can we find pigeons without feathers, that are trussed on a silver skewer? Three Wonder Plays The day before a fat steer had been driven to the public square and there dressed and trussed for the roasting. The Truce of God The jailer can be found trussed up and gagged, to-morrow about midnight. Copper Streak Trail I guess them gophers of police are snugly trussed by now. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest Swiftly Tom Bodine trussed up the unconscious German with the man's own belt, while Jack similarly treated the thoroughly cowed Mexican, Morales. The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border "And this friend, no doubt, sent him a couple of tigers all ready trussed?" Willis the Pilot And for an hour the Black Reaper mowed and trussed, till he had cut all from the little upper field and was approached to the neck of juncture with the lower and larger. At a Winter's Fire The king's troopers will ride through here some day, and Pierre will be a cunning man if they do not strip him as bare as a trussed fowl. For The Admiral Wild duck is highly esteemed by epicures; it is trussed like a tame duck, and carved in the same manner, the breast being the choicest part. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home The present cause of her gestures we made out to be a dark-skinned fellow whom two of Saint Aubyn's men held prisoner with his arms trussed behind him. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Spirally wheeling and screaming as it goes, the sea-kite, bill foremost, darts downward, swoops into the water, and for a moment altogether disappearing, emerges at last; its prey firmly trussed in its claws. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I One recalls a confused glamor of ortolans, trussed guinea-hens, strawberries reclining in a bowl carved out of solid ice, and what used to be known as vintages. Mince Pie The next day, when they had heard mass and taken some repast and that everything was trussed and ready, then they took their horses and rode towards Poitiers. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Partridges are generally cleaned and trussed the same way as a pheasant, but the custom of cooking them with the heads on is going into disuse somewhat. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home And at that, for all his trussed and helpless plight, Jack Ryder grinned. The Fortieth Door Thus our goods from Malacca remained unshipped, and were trussed up again, having to wait some other opportunity. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 He was as big as a trussed chicken, and looked something like one in the twilight. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern When they had killed a buck, they trussed him up and put him upon their backs and so walked off, neither of them being able to procure horses for such service. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences A pig had immediately preceded, trussed by his feet to a bamboo, and interfering mightily with the music that followed. The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon Outside, broad daylight; in here, four scoundrels in candle-council, planning deeds of darkness; and I, trussed up like a calf, watching them because there doesn't seem to be anything else I can do. The Boy Scouts on Picket Duty "But it's awfully tiresome being trussed up like this," Stubbs protested. The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign Or, the Struggle to Save a Nation Then add a chicken stuffed and trussed as for roasting; cover closely and cook thoroughly. The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. However, at last it was done, and Sultan deprived of his feathers, floured, and trussed. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections So—at last he has trussed his quarry. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 The French King and seven lords of France went from that hut trussed like chickens ready for the oven. Chivalry Twenty feet behind you, Johnny, gagged an' trussed up nice as a whistle! The Hunted Woman Then he ran a knot from one wrist to the other over the back of the neck, and left the prisoner, trussed and helpless, on the heap of straw that had been Sammy's bed. Martin Hewitt, Investigator The old-time huge joints, trussed hares, whole sucking pigs, &c., are fast vanishing from our tables, and the smart chef exerts himself to produce as many recherche and mysterious little made dishes as possible. Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. You cannot imagine, worthy Sir, how ridiculously I find we have all been trussed up during the War, and how infinitely the French Dress excels ours. The Spectator, Volume 2. In August the road platform was commenced, and in September the trussed bearing bars were all suspended. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain But, brother, just a word with you—now that he's ready trussed, as one may say, wouldn't it be better for all parties if we was to work him off? Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Being a builder of bridges, I trussed these surfaces together, in order to obtain strength and stiffness. Flying Machines: construction and operation; a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship Then, ere the sun was on the slope of the heavens, they had deftly trussed up again, and were swinging merrily upon their way, two hundred feet moving like two. The White Company 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. Gulliver's Travels And then they bound him—his hands behind his back and his feet trussed up to meet them. Return of Tarzan 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. David Copperfield The second was known as the multiple winged machine and finally developed into five pairs of pivoted wings, trussed together at the front and one pair in the rear. Flying Machines: construction and operation; a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship But this is the letter which I am to take; and since the platter is clean it is time that we trussed up and were afoot. The White Company He saw pass before him two squires, and each carried a wild deer trussed behind him that had been taken by hounds. The High History of the Holy Graal He's a decent soul, and it's lucky for me I got a word with him before they trussed me up. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman 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. David Copperfield You are trussed up like a fowl, and can do nothing. Prester John I have seen him ere now, with monk's gown trussed to his knees, over his sandals in blood in the fore-front of the battle. The White Company In a jiffy I was trussed up as neatly as you might wish. Pellucidar He gagged him scientifically, and trussed him up with his own belt and two straps from a trunk in my bedroom. Greenmantle And yet he sat there, helpless monarch, like a fowl trussed for roasting. A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa I was trussed up tight and carried out to the open, and left in the care of the guards. Prester John I see that your squire's eyes are starting from his head like a trussed crab. The White Company They wrapped my feet in seaweed, and I saw that they had dressed me up like a stuffed and trussed trout. The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself At present he's trussed up on a shelf in that cupboard.' Greenmantle Together Billy and Bridge trussed up the two tramps. The Mucker Old Martha was standing at a table trussing a pair of chickens for the market stall as she had trussed them for nearly fourscore years. Beasts and Super-Beasts It was produced by the passing of a load of newly trussed hay from the country, in a waggon marked with Farfrae's name. The Mayor of Casterbridge Almost before he realized that anything had happened, he was trussed to a tree and securely gagged. Freckles To fall on a man when he is sleeping off his wine, and tie him up like a trussed fowl! An Enemy to the King Older goose, however, is stuffed, trussed, and roasted just as old duck. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish And he promptly trussed the other in the bridle reins. Way of the Lawless "Your deductions would be more interesting were we not lying trussed in this cellar," I said. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles When men wilted and pitched to their faces on the sooty, dusty floor, he trussed them under one arm and bore them up to the air. Harrigan He was found trussed as tight as a chicken in his own sword-belt and his own garters. The Highwayman A rabbit that is left whole presents a better appearance when it is trussed. Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish Having trussed the rabbits, lay them in a pan of warm water for about fifteen minutes. Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches In that instant Sir Michael was upon me, and I was gagged and trussed almost before I realized what had happened. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Further conversation was interrupted by Arnold von Baden, who was stretched on his back at a distance, trussed by his own sword; he said something in German. The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy He professed that he could tell nothing of who had trussed him or why he was set upon. The Highwayman "You can't scare him; so quit this fooling, and let us know how long we are to stand here trussed up like this." In the Midst of Alarms Jove's bird on sounding pinions beat the skies; A bleeding serpent, of enormous size, His talons trussed; alive, and curling round, He stung the bird, whose throat received the wound. The Life of Cicero Volume One I was still sitting in an angle of a wall, trussed like a fowl, but I was awake. The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Therewith she set her hands to her head, and trussed up her hair, and bound it closely to her head, so that it might hide no whit of her borrowed attire. The Water of the Wondrous Isles The one she had intended for me had been killed and trussed and then the rats which abound out there, got at it in the night and left not a bone of it! Crowded Out! and Other Sketches Both the girls shrieked at the jet of fire and the head dropped, chin-down on the floor, with a thud; the whole body lying then like a corpse with its arms trussed. Indian Tales Mortimer had the sensation of being trussed up with invisible but inflexible silken thongs. The Sisters-In-Law The janitor, stripped and bound, ankles lashed, hands trussed behind him, was haled towards the brazier. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire I was trussed up, face to wall, with arms outstretched, for ten hours. The Subterranean Brotherhood This is hung at a height of about 12 feet from the ground in a single story shed, about 80 feet long, and 50 feet wide, and having an open trussed roof. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Jean-Christophe, trussed up in an absurd coat, which made him look like a country parson, arrived at the house quite ill with shyness. Jean-Christophe, Volume I I felt that I could not survive the shame of being trussed up and lashed before men's eyes, but I did also have a great mind to fight the French which kept me along. Crooked Trails It's bad enough trying to clamber up this infernal road, anyhow, without having to go at it all trussed up this way.” Darkness and Dawn She brought me a beauty and with it I trussed the sergeant, tying him securely into a heavy, clumsy chair, and leaving him as helpless as a fowl ready for roasting. The Yeoman Adventurer The Partridges being clean'd and trussed, boil them tender, and make the following Sauce for them. The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm The entire roof is strongly trussed and braced with iron bolts. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present "They came and they sapped, they fired and they slew, trussed up their loot and were gone!" The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 He lay securely trussed in a corner of the passageway. The Rangeland Avenger Note.—Ducklings are trussed and roasted in the same manner, and served with the same sauces and accompaniments. The Book of Household Management A Duck, an Easterling, a Teal, and a Widgeon, are all trussed in the same manner. The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm "Don't forget that I had no part in the rescue, Master Sitz, for surely I was trussed up as stoutly as either you or Sergeant Corney." The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley Dimly it seemed that he gave some order, and I was trussed up with ropes. Salute to Adventurers If trussed in this manner, there is no string across the breast of the fowl. School and Home Cooking Pigeons may also be plainly boiled, and served with parsley and butter; they should be trussed like boiled fowls, and take from 1/4 hour to 20 minutes to boil. The Book of Household Management Then bend in both Legs between the Haunches, so that their Points meet under the Scut, and skewer them fast, with two Skewers, as at O O. A Fowl trussed for Boiling. The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm You brought me, trussed up like a hen in that aeroplane harness. Boy Scouts in an Airship; or, the Warning from the Sky They trussed me with ropes, binding my hands cruelly behind my back, and swathing my legs till not a muscle could move. Salute to Adventurers |
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