bull chain

So while mourning the closing of De Robertis, consider that we might someday mourn the bankruptcy of whatever chain replaces it.

The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.

She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?

Then he closed the spring with a snap, and she let him pass the chain over her hand once more.

I thought this young man was going to read us some of his poetry; it's too tiresome of him to stop to tell us about his bull-dog.

And I, for one, absolutely decline to believe in this preposterous story of his about a bull-dog.