lay by the heels

A lad you haven't been able to lay by the heels yet.

I did not want to be laid by the heels for picking a dead man's pocket.

He didn't want me laid by the heels immediately.

And what's more, we'll never get laid by the heels if we obeys him.

I was laid by the heels for ten days, and Trevor used to come in to inquire after me.

This murdering villain's got to be laid by the heels.

I should have him laid by the heels; I could so with no difficulty at all.

Had we found him laid by the heels after his first uncleanness, it would have made us shudder for ourselves.

I carried her off; we were overtaken, and I was laid by the heels for a time.

Rand wondered whether he would find Whitecloaks when these rebels were laid by the heels.

At all event, he was taken up, laid by the heels, court-martialled and dismissed the service. '

Sir Arrogant is here, and I am glad to say, has been laid by the heels here.

Well, then Caypor must be laid by the heels, but how he was to effect that Ashenden had no notion.

The threat having proved ineffective he said "that if they did not take down the said church, they should be laid by the heels."

He is bound to be laid by the heels," said Mr. Hart. "

I told him that his secret was safe with me, and I asked him if he had heard that you were laid by the heels.

Still, I could not very well watch the pair of you laid by the heels and carved up, could I now?

Well, it was for that that this reprobate was laid by the heels on the immediately hither side of the cross and the sepulchre.

Ha, ha, ha,' he laughed, his big voice full of intense amusement, 'to think of poor good old Stephen being laid by the heels for a spy!

captured, laid by the heels, trussed and manacled, and was now under lock and key in the dungeons of the old castle.

But since Lothar could no longer be laid by the heels and brought into court as evidence of my innocence, I knew that I should never be believed.

England is the one spot on the map of Europe where an anarchist cannot be laid by the heels unless there is evidence against him that will stand the test of open court.

Then again, I could not tell him I hated both the Fencibles and the press and that in any event I could accept neither without being laid by the heels.' '

That barefaced, insolent Englishman and his equally brazen followers must be laid by the heels and handed over to the tender mercies of the citizeness Damiens who would have her quick way with them.

Although an Irishman, Barney had the quality of an English bulldog and, having made contact with the Satanist whom his chief was so anxious to lay by the heels, nothing could have induced him to let go.