When mutinous sailors were put in irons in the olden days, nobody was allowed to unshackle them.
As for the latter's sailing, it was so wild and intermittent, and she hung each time so long in irons, that she certainly gained nothing, if she did not even lose.
They were still isolated and in irons, still undergoing interrogations, still each in a small cell illuminated by a single bulb, with a straw mattress.
Your ship's in irons, Master Silver; you're on a lee shore, and so you'll find.
And but for his illness he would have been put in irons, for he was regarded as a determined prison-breaker, and I know not what else.
They bruised his feet with shackles, his neck was put in irons.
