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    1. Solomon Browne was despatched to save those aboard the Union Star freighter that had flooded engines and ripped its anchor chain


    2. This depletion of the mineral content produces deficiencies throughout the food chain


    3. Baker directs John to one of the armchairs, unbuttons his jacket to reveal a gold tie chain, and sits in the other one, leaning forward in John’s direction


    4. For his part the old man sat impassive, chain smoking throughout the couple’s


    5. (A chain that has the element of gold)


    6. AND SQUIGGLY CHEMICAL CHAIN REACTIONS…”


    7. chemical chain might have a lifetime of a second, or it might exist in an unbroken


    8. Keys rattled on a chain


    9. Bahkmar could understand how the political connections were like dendrites, the chain of command was the axion


    10. I wanted to light up the room, wanted to chain smoke my way through the morning, but the small bag of gifts on the mattress next to me in the darkness was too precious to waste

    11. He had no other chain of command in this crisis and because of this order, he could see it was a crisis


    12. Once back in my room I let the guard chain me to the pipe, settling on my camp bed with a show of outward serenity


    13. The chain fixed to my wrist was a problem, but I found that I could do basic press-ups and squats


    14. I strained at the chain, desperate to try and reach the door


    15. I knelt, tethered, at the end of my chain, straining to hear the sound of a carbine loosing its deathly payload


    16. My guards had not fixed handcuffs to my wrists nor had the by now all too familiar clank of chain accompanied my move


    17. Nothing caught his eye as being suitable, but there was a sign, faded and hanging at an angle because one of the cable ties holding it to a chain link fence had snapped


    18. In the primordial soup of creation a chemical chain might have a lifetime of a second, or it might exist in an unbroken sequence that lasted for millennia, but for Smith that moment of absolute happiness in the melody of life was nothing but a blink of an eye


    19. chain and held it to his left eye and looked through then he


    20. ‘This’ was a heavy chain of red gold links approximately ten inches long

    21. “Seriously, if you’d like to curl up next to me on the couch, we can put in another movie and chain smoke the night away


    22. the rattle of chain and the tumble of teeth


    23. This will set off a chain


    24. stunting the chain reaction of the process


    25. forgetting that they hang on a chain around our necks


    26. hanging heavy on a gold linked chain,


    27. but over by the far chain fence


    28. ’ He said appreciatively as I pull out the gold chain in the box


    29. Suspended from the dainty chain is a small pendant stone, green in colour, it sparkles in the early morning sunlight


    30. ‘What is it?’ I asked, admiring the beautiful detail of the chain

    31. But the community chain was fragile, of that there was no doubt, and without successors it would break


    32. In the process, my shirt gapes slightly and my travel stone falls forward on its gold chain


    33. "Thank you son," Alfred said, “I’m sure a request will come thru the chain of command shortly


    34. It was locked with a huge chain and padlock


    35. Old Ted, on the other hand, went from strength to strength, earning a small fortune from his globally syndicated television show and from a chain of franchised garden centres bearing his name that sprang up across the whole country


    36. I dreamed of my chain of stores the whole night


    37. He wore a gold chain


    38. The man in the gold chain went back to his group


    39. In Practice: This is part of the eternal chain


    40. Pandora The placement of something which causes a massive chain

    41. show and from a chain of franchised garden centres bearing his


    42. There were seven souls at the meeting the captain called, Kelvin himself, Saint O’Conner, Glayet, Heymon, Elmore, Alfred, and her, all Kelvin’s direct reports by the military chain of command


    43. The interconnect is a chain of lakes that links the North and Center Lakes together


    44. Eight clips in the chain


    45. Mandy moved with unabashed curiosity to the piece of porcelain furniture and without a moment's hesitation, pulled the little chain dangling from the tank


    46. ball on a chain and placed it over the farmer’s palm


    47. “Open it, Harry” said Hipolyta and held out a fob chain and key for the latch


    48. “That is just a matter of how far up the chain the knowledge went


    49. He held up the watch by its chain


    50. his belt hidden by his suit coat and produced a key chain














































    1. After the last incident, Ava chained that cherub to a wooden chair and stabbed his testicles to hamburger with a carving fork


    2. Given the mental stresses and the physical degradations of the day, it was inevitable that I fell asleep chained to the radiator


    3. Before we moved he had taken to climbing up onto a window ledge in spite of his chained wrist


    4. feet were still chained so he remained seated with his back to the wall and


    5. The chained women sat on the bed and said nothing


    6. On a cradle, chained to the cracked kitchen ceiling,


    7. They were chained


    8. ticket this year,' I said as I chained our suitcase to the lower berth


    9. There was a rotting corpse chained to the far wall,


    10. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still other were chained and put in prison

    11. that afternoon, the pilgrims came across a man chained in


    12. difficulty is that she’s chained to a table


    13. Samite was the slave who always leered when sailors raped her? “But he was chained across


    14. He pointed his chained hands at his mouth, then stood defiantly as if to say he was a


    15. Her new master didn’t explain what Nerissa’s work would be, merely chained her to a


    16. How was she supposed to do any of this while chained to the post? It didn’t matter


    17. He shouted at Charitt that she was mad and needed to be chained to a wall in the lowest dungeon


    18. Tragus chained Nerissa to the same post in his ewe shed as before


    19. After marching her to the water trough, Tragus chained her over it face-down


    20. sleep chained to the post for five hours at best, and start again at dawn

    21. Just as she’d hoped, Tragus hadn’t chained her in the ewe shed for the night


    22. The dead-brains moaned and clawed at us, but they were chained to the pews


    23. chained in her heart


    24. His handlers came out and chained him


    25. Similar tables, pushcarts chained to utility poles and broken fruit crates lined an otherwise empty street


    26. Natives as young as five years old faced military discipline, fourteen hour workdays of forced labor, and physical punishment that included whippings and being chained to their work stations


    27. Now chained to the


    28. It’s more than I got when they chained me up down here, but


    29. I’d suffered from cold while chained in the forward hold


    30. As he distanced himself back from the wall to have more room to lash out to the chained man, a shout from across the chamber halted him with his whip barely halting in mid-air:

    31. The flogger set down his instrument of torture and bowed reverently as fast as it would seem prudent, and then stepped completely away from the chained form of Philo, standing still and averting his gaze from the direction of the Patriarch


    32. That having being said, the Patriarch reached for Philo’s chains; a mere touch of his hand unlocked the first one and Philo’s body swayed immediately to his other chained side


    33. He joined them in conversation but hesitated to step into the chained off area


    34. The gates are chained and you can’t fly or drive in without an authorised government permit" said Blair


    35. After chaining Apsu, Ea killed Him; tied Mummu and chained him


    36. She never struggled, only scowled as Dacian chained her arms to shackles that


    37. arms were shackled and chained behind her back, her legs to the metal floor


    38. Wynne was chained beside her


    39. physical rehabilitation, as long as we understand the principle, we even can abandon the placebo, we don't have to rely on placebo or be chained to a placebo


    40. Rattling the chained padlock of

    41. they saw the rusted metal doorway had been chained by thick


    42. Maggie felt numb, chained to the rock without hope of moving again


    43. It seems that galeras were ships propelled by banks of large oars pulled by men chained to their benches


    44. I didn’t ask, but I suspected if the galera happened to be sunk, those chained to their benches would be left to their fate


    45. All the rowers were naked and chained by their ankle to remain at their benches night and day


    46. The free men among them were not chained on the open sea, only while in port


    47. We hoped we could have chained you all sooner with Elena’s help, but she derailed the plan for a while


    48. that we are no longer chained to Satan


    49. And as I peer inside, the light from my head torch reveals dozens of cats and dogs chained to the walls


    50. I cannot save the chained animals; I can save only myself












































    1. After chaining Apsu, Ea killed Him; tied Mummu and chained him


    2. It forms a chaining of


    3. Concealing and chaining his bike a hundred metres from the road, Jarek shouldered a pack containing a bottle of water and enough bread and biscuits for two days, then spent the day trudging through dense undergrowth


    4. The spell she had placed on me, ‘saving’ my life, had actually been a chaining spell on my Power


    5. anticipated consequences of long-term chaining


    6. Dropping roughly Marie Demaersk on the mattress, the suspect then methodically undressed her, leaving her totally naked, before chaining one of her hands to the wall


    7. But a bad friend is a positive misfortune, a weight continually dragging us down, and chaining us to earth


    8. Another option is “forward chaining”: compute each value as soon as you can, in hope that you’ll reach the goal


    9. “If the meaning of life is to have a meaning,” he faced her voice expecting to see mother, lover, or goddess – something befitting a game, a hallucination, or a near death experience – but all he saw was the face of everything he had ever loved looking as if it were a poisonous viper that he had beaten to death each day of his life as payment to rise from his chaining bed of privilege


    10. We sweet treat tamed our homegrown gangster threat of protection tribute or else by chaining the holiday to the slavery of sugar plantations and the kidnapped child labor of cocoa concentration camps

    11. “Only you hold the key to the PandoraBox that binds you to money and locks your hope in future possessions, chaining your benefits to anonymous deaths


    12. The chaining job by dozer shall be


    13. A vision of herself in the restaurant car handing him over the money she had, chaining herself of her own accord to him, rose for a moment--danced mockingly, it was so ludicrously important an action and at the same time so small and natural--before her eyes


    14. "He is not up," she thought, hearing Nanon's morning cough as the good soul went and came, sweeping out the halls, lighting her fire, chaining the dog, and speaking to the beasts in the stable


    15. [5] If we focus on specific calendar month contracts (say, for crude oil futures) the cumulative (excess) return of the proposed strategy can be measured by chaining the distinct returns of 12 monthly contracts


    1. “Like chains,” the boy said, and Hermann thought that maybe he was silently going mad just while waiting in the terminal


    2. Their ghosts still haunt us, clinking on chains woven from steam-pressed skin


    3. I unbolted the door but left the chains on


    4. John stands in chains in the courtroom


    5. the great Danton, could do nothing now that the beast was off its chains but try to


    6. Locked down with the shock, bound in chains of fear, I tried to break my bonds by lashing out at phantoms amid irrational bouts of bravado


    7. Chains falling to the floor


    8. Then he too broke the chains of captivity, and locked Menachem into his own arms so that they could start the dance all over again


    9. Kara signed herself out of the records office and the two women walked in silence along the street towards the little café – one of the larger chains that prided itself on the quality of its coffee, Kara noted with dismay


    10. shackles and silver chains

    11. Son watched as Lyla fell to the ground tripping over the chains, and he


    12. Their chains were


    13. Danton’s fellow revolutionaries, compressed as they were into such a small space, gave vent to their frustration and pain in rivers of blood, and he, the great Danton, could do nothing now that the beast was off its chains but try to direct the rampaging animal as best he could


    14. Chains hung here, across the old spanned vaults


    15. Behind them, linked by chains,


    16. Satan is bound by chains and thrown into a pit (Revelation 20:1-2, Isaiah 24:21-22)


    17. of chains and cogs on flywheels hissing steam


    18. 8 to bind their kings with chains,


    19. the chains keep changing,


    20. Young girls in scarves of white satin, stockings of red cotton and heavy brocade jackets staggered under heirloom medallion chains of heavy gold, links of pearl, lace and beads

    21. When all was finally revealed, The Seraph, as they were called, were a three-piece from the Midlands with a rare talent for creating haunting melodies and harmonies, melodies that played on in Helen’s head every minute of every day until the very second that she finally shuffled off her mortal chains


    22. At last the chains that bound our prince to the world were


    23. shuffled off her mortal chains


    24. death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains


    25. Rusted chains and pulleys


    26. slowly…and in chains, most likely


    27. head, he cleared the last chains restricting full


    28. He glanced at the rear view mirror and saw the chains and shackles


    29. Chains hung from the ceiling with shackles at their


    30. anchored by chains over the tables had been pulled close to the ceiling so no one

    31. By the break between terms just before Thanksgiving, homes all through the village sported construction paper pilgrims and turkeys, red and green paper chains and all the other crafts projects which spring from the elementary classes of schools everywhere, like apples on apple trees


    32. Red and green garland and paper chains hung in the hallways


    33. 6“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of


    34. From the ceiling, four chains at each of


    35. She looked at the chains hanging from the ceiling


    36. posts, and from them hung chains connecting in the center to several leather


    37. ground, only to be yanked to a sudden stop by the thick chains around their necks


    38. 31“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades?


    39. In the tank, Mushin’s wrists were placed in steel cuffs hooked to two chains


    40. top of the ceiling along the path of the chains that imprisoned Mushin

    41. chains of The Flower’s crude new circus device


    42. from the chains of Extravaganza


    43. “Uh, boss, I think that there dead guy hangin’ in the chains is Mr


    44. their chains, breaking the yoke of oppression, and bringing with the


    45. Is it conviction or condemnation? God always moves our heart toward change whereas the enemy always pushes down under the chains of condemnation


    46. chains and locks, and Bernadette explained that it was on


    47. He then went to the lifeless magician, took the lamp out of his vest, and bade the genie carry the palace and all in it back to China and then take the magician to the darkest dungeon in chains


    48. He was in chains, while


    49. back on Evander’s chains just before he reached Prochus


    50. And Evander was leaning as close as his chains














































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    Synonyms for "chain"

    chain strand string concatenation chemical chain chain of mountains mountain chain mountain range range range of mountains ernst boris chain sir ernst boris chain progression succession series continuity connection train metal links padlock cable restraint bond attach connect bind fasten hold lash secure wrap shackle restrain fetter handcuff tie up imprison

    "chain" definitions

    a series of things depending on each other as if linked together


    (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)


    a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament


    (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership


    anything that acts as a restraint


    a unit of length


    British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)


    a series of hills or mountains


    a linked or connected series of objects


    a necklace made by stringing objects together


    connect or arrange into a chain by linking


    fasten or secure with chains