Nagarak caught him, he used his sacrifice knife to cut the pulsing cord still binding them together.

His ankles were tied together, but not his hands - or, rather, he'd managed, God knows how, maybe in rage or pain, to break the cord binding his hands.

I cut the cords binding it, peeped inside.

Vance busied himself with the cruel cords binding her wrists.

Mr. Qiu's brother said he had paid extra to court officials so that the cord binding Mr. Qiu's hands would be loosened.

He slapped the tape over Carole's mouth again and cut the cord binding her feet.

He could feel thin, hard cord binding his wrists and ankles.

Bruce seemed unconcerned with her plight and Sue felt as if an umbilical cord binding them together had been severed.

He took a clasp knife from his pocket, opened the blade with his teeth and slashed through the cord binding the neck of one of the bags.

"I wasn't planning to," he muttered, tugging vainly at the cord binding his wrists.