"We call it," replied the cripple, "the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs, and it really is excellent sport if well enacted."
"The chains are for the purpose of increasing the confusion by their jangling.
The other guards stood thunderstruck and amazed at this unexpected event, but recovering presence of mind, those on horseback seized their swords, and those on foot their javelins, and attacked Don Quixote, who was waiting for them with great calmness; and no doubt it would have gone badly with him if the galley slaves, seeing the chance before them of liberating themselves, had not effected it by contriving to break the chain on which they were strung.
What your worship may do, and fairly do, is to change this service and tribute as regards the lady Dulcinea del Toboso for a certain quantity of ave-marias and credos which we will say for your worship's intention, and this is a condition that can be complied with by night as by day, running or resting, in peace or in war; but to imagine that we are going now to return to the flesh-pots of Egypt, I mean to take up our chain and set out for El Toboso, is to imagine that it is now night, though it is not yet ten in the morning, and to ask this of us is like asking pears of the elm tree."
He went inside, and said, 'See, what a splendid bird that is; he has given me this beautiful gold
chain, and looks so beautiful himself.'
The brief instant in which I had seen and recognized Carthoris before the
chain fell must have been ample to check the force of the blow.
In his wrath, Michael tried to bite the master-god, and was jerked away by the
chain. When he strove to retaliate on Johnny, that imperturbable youth, with extended arm, merely lifted him into the air on his
chain and strangled him.
His search not being rewarded with immediate success, he decided to return to the pit where his rykor lay
chained and look to its wants.
`I wear the
chain I forged in life,' replied the Ghost.
A huge cellar had been constructed there, closed by an old iron grating, which was out of order, into which were cast not only the human remains, which were taken from the
chains of Montfauçon, but also the bodies of all the unfortunates executed on the other permanent gibbets of Paris.
This time she did not take him to a splendid palace, but to a deep cave in a rock, where there were
chains hanging from the wall.
And you, you old yellow poco moonshine!" he said, giving a shove to the mulatto woman to whom Emmeline was
chained, "don't you carry that sort of face!