For when the keeper came to unchain the killed and wounded of his seat he was still without consciousness lying among the corpses, bathed in their blood and his own.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He and his fellows, therefore, without further examination, did but unchain the slaves and then fling them over.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
So, little anticipating the tempest he was about to unchain, he answered: "I am familiar with the charges that they have trumped up against him.
"The Lion and the Mouse A Story of an American Life"
Charles Klein