What is "pinioned"

Usage examples of "pinioned".

Impaled through the throat, Star-Admiral Iin Mennus was flung violently back until he struck the wall, pinioned there as the hyperex-cited ions boiled his blood to paste.

Then she would have to turn her attention to the five sturdy spindles in the back of the chair to free the upper chain, and not even a carnival contortionist born with rubber bones could get at them with a saw while pinioned as Chyna was.

He took up from his desk the unopened telegram, and also the flimsy sheet of paper that was pinioned down under the huge iron nut and deposited both carefully in the top drawer of his desk.

As for Fathom, his affliction was unutterable, when he found himself discovered in that situation, and made prisoner by the two assistants, who had pinioned him in such a manner, that he could not stir, much less accomplish an escape.

Brandishing lengths of thick pipe, they held Audie pinioned between them.

He saw a flaming torch, grasped in a monstrous hand, thrust inexorably down the gullet of an agonized wretch who writhed in vain against the arms that pinioned him.

His arms were pinioned to his sides by the press, the crush against his body was all but rib-cracking, he could hardly draw his breath.

Shadows leapt frantically from side to side unable to escape from the hanging array of calcified skeleton fingers and cobwebbed tendrils that pinioned them to a low-arched ceiling.

Both my arms are pinioned from behind by the Director of Comp., who wrestles me roughly down, on me with all his weight.

The screen converges a host of Gaian imageshieroglyphics, cuneiform, oncoming planetsand a smallish Tibetan figure, seen from several hundred feet out in the air, pinioned on an impossible ice flute, bringing up his German climbing companions.

It is undisputed that plaintiff and his work, as here represented by the steel sculpture Cyclone Seven, have been held up to public ridicule both locally and, given the wide ranging magic of the media, throughout the land, as witnessed in a cartoon published in the South Georgia Pilot crudely depicting a small dog pinioned under a junk heap comprising old bedsprings, chamber pots, and other household debris, and from the Arkansas Family Visitor an editorial denouncing plaintiff's country of origin as prominent in the Soviet bloc, thereby distinctly implying his mission among us to be one of atheistic subversion of our moral values as a Christian nation, whereas materials readily available elsewhere show plaintiff to have departed his birthplace at age three with his family who were in fact fleeing the then newly installed Communist regime.

I accuse Gorlot,' and StannalTs finger pinioned the traitor, 'of the highest, most gruesome treachery.

It was in this deplorable state of mind that Rodriguez' glance fell on the merry eyes and the solemn predicament of the man in the leather coat, standing pinioned under a long branch of the oak-tree: and he determined from that moment to disappoint la Garda and, I fear also, my reader, perhaps to disappoint you, of the hanging that they at least had promised themselves.

He saw himself pinioned and pickpocketed, Bureau guys who figured he'd never squeal.

A quince tree, pinioned to the wall outside, was heavy with rosy cups where bees droned, and just beside her on the sill a pair of white doves strutted and crooned.