Sentence: This letter was taken up the next morning to Belforest by Colonel Brownlow, and the two eldest delinquents, one, curious, amused, and with only compunction enough to flavour an apology, the other cross, dogged, and sheepish, dragged along like a cur in a sling, just as though he were going to be hanged, said Janet.
Combination: a cur in a sling (root: cur, modifier: sling)
Property: helpless
Property type: emergent