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  • Cold iron fetters locked around my wrists, and pulled my hands above my head, which was suddenly on a pillow.†   (source)
  • What has brought them to the temple — no single answer will cover —escape from everyday life, with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own shifting desires.†   (source)
  • We had in Norway a genuine Baroque poet called Fetter Dass, who lived from 1647 to 1707.†   (source)
  • The video ended after ninety minutes, in the middle of a scene where a naked Advokat Bjurman sat leaning against the bedstead drinking a glass of wine as he looked at Salander, curled up with her hands fettered behind her.†   (source)
  • Sophia shook her head, automatically running through the alphabet …. getter, fetter, letter….†   (source)
  • Char shouldn't have been fettering his friend.†   (source)
  • No recruit had arrived at the Wall with so much pomp since Nymeria sent the Watch six kings in golden fetters.†   (source)
  • Frost shall freeze, and fire melt wood; the earth shall give fruit, and ice shall bridge dark water, make roofs, mysteriously lock earth's flourishings; but the fetters of frost shall also fall, fair weather return, and the reaching sun restore the restless sea…… We wait.†   (source)
  • One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.†   (source)
  • Though now, or in the recent now, I've begun to understand how easily one can stand by and watch a pile of dross steadily grow, allow the fetter of one's quotidian life to become an unwieldy accumulation, which seems somehow much more daunting to clear away once it has settled, gained a repose.†   (source)
  • Your fetters!†   (source)
  • I was taken far to the back of the palace where a smith placed manacles about my wrists, fetters on my ankles, with chains upon them too heavy for me to break.†   (source)
  • Yura advanced and became freer under the influence of his uncle's theories, but Misha was fettered by them.†   (source)
  • Too often, our ability to trade with one another is fettered by quotas, tariffs and the influence of special interests.
  • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.   (source)
  • "You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling.   (source)
    fettered = in shackles (with the ankles or feet chained)
  • A great silence descended, and the fetters of enchantment fell away from Selitos.†   (source)
  • Jaime meant to find out, as soon as he rid himself of these fetters.†   (source)
  • He touched his torn wrists and ankles and appeared confused to discover that his fetters were gone.†   (source)
  • Our guest won't have anything useful to say until the effects of the passive fetter wear off.†   (source)
  • "Help!" cried Max, crouching down and ripping off the fetter as he put pressure on the wound.†   (source)
  • In the black iron fetter about his wrist, the ruby seemed to pulse.†   (source)
  • She would go into one of her dreadful rages if she knew the contents of your fetter.†   (source)
  • Father, I beg you to put him in fetters, for your own protection.†   (source)
  • Because Cooper's caught it in a Passive Fetter; you'll learn to make them by your Sixth Year.†   (source)
  • He was awake now, though, and the fetters were irksome.†   (source)
  • Instead he spread his hands as far as the fetters would allow.†   (source)
  • Even with the fetters gone, Reek moved like an old man.†   (source)
  • Then he removed the fetters around Asha's ankles, rubbing the stiffness from her calves.†   (source)
  • The fetters chafed at her wrists and at her pride.†   (source)
  • I heard an aunt beside me whisper that the fetters had been made by the great god of smiths, Hephaestus himself, so not even Zeus could break them.†   (source)
  • He tried twisting it, thinking it would be easier to break that way, but the fetters around his ankles kept him from turning very far to either side.†   (source)
  • On the ground, the jockey was fettered and muted, moving in slow motion, the world a sensory vacuum after the tenfold high of racing speed.†   (source)
  • Yoren even sent Lommy out with tankards for the three in fetters, who'd been left chained up in the back of their wagon.†   (source)
  • A Passive Fetter had been fitted around his neck, glowing dully, while its other end was fastened to one of the bed's sturdy wooden legs.†   (source)
  • He might well end up down there, fettered to a wet stone floor and left to drown when the tide came rushing in.†   (source)
  • When Eragon's arcane fetters ceased to exist, Oromis recoiled as if he had been pricked by a wasp and stood with his gaze fixed on his two hands, his thin chest heaving.†   (source)
  • The betrayal of his friend was so utterly complete, Max would have dashed himself against the walls were it not for the fetters that bound him.†   (source)
  • She felt fettered to her bed.†   (source)
  • He was fettered at wrist and ankle, each cuff chained to the others, so he could neither stand nor lie comfortably.†   (source)
  • Yet no matter what good might still flicker in Murtagh's breast, he and Eragon were doomed to be mortal enemies, for Murtagh's promises in the ancient language bound him to Galbatorix with unbreakable fetters and would forevermore.†   (source)
  • He discovered that he was still bound by the same cord, an enchanted fetter that suppressed any instinct for escape or resistance.†   (source)
  • "This city, which was formally torpid with indolence and fettered with Quakerism," she reported proudly, "has become one military school, and every morning the sound of the drum and fife lead forth, 'A Band of Brothers Joined.'†   (source)
  • He had considered enlisting the riverlords as well, but Vance and Piper and their ilk were more like to help the Blackfish escape than clap him into fetters.†   (source)
  • When they challenged the monster to test his strength against the cord, the wolf laughed but was suspicious of such a feeble-looking fetter.†   (source)
  • In my first fetter I had hoped to impress you with my brilliant prose, but that will have to wait for my second.†   (source)
  • He wished the passive fetters would dull his mind or that the baka would creep back down to settle on his shoulders and begin its whispers anew.†   (source)
  • The worst were the three he'd found in the black cells who must have scared even him, because he kept them fettered hand and foot in the back of a wagon, and vowed they'd stay in irons all the way to the Wall.†   (source)
  • Then I promised, In my next fetter, I shall tell more about finishing school and the elves and Areida, my Ayorthaian friend If you write quickly I shalt also sera Mandy's and my recipe for roly-poly pudding.†   (source)
  • Four other men went with him when he left the room, but they were back soon enough with a captive, a small, sallow, battered man fettered hand and foot.†   (source)
  • If you do write, pray do not address the fetters to me or mark them to show that you are the correspondent.†   (source)
  • It would not have been hard for him to have grasped one of their sword hilts as they manhandled him, but there were too many, and he was still in fetters.†   (source)
  • Father asks frequently in his fetters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home.†   (source)
  • Fetters?†   (source)
  • His wrist was throbbing where he'd torn the skin, and his fetters made it impossible for him to sit, let alone stretch out.†   (source)
  • But your fetters torment me.†   (source)
  • We need no fetters.†   (source)
  • Direct your fetters to Mandy.†   (source)
  • Between the chain, the fetters, and his missing fingers, Reek was clumsier than he had been before he learned his name.†   (source)
  • As he was loosing the horses from the traces, Ser Justin trotted up and undid the fetters around Asha's ankles.†   (source)
  • And sad to say, this is Volantis, where fetters and chains are cheaper than day-old bread and it is forbidden to help a slave escape.†   (source)
  • Instead the bird struck his temple and slid hot and greasy down his face, and he had to hunker down and stretch for it with fetters clanking.†   (source)
  • The Lord of the Dreadfort glanced idly at the remnants of the feast, at the dead dog, at the hangings on the walls, at Reek in his chains and fetters.†   (source)
  • Whenever he threatened to fall behind, the knight would seize his fetters and yank them roughly, sending the dwarf stumbling and hopping along beside him.†   (source)
  • Asha Greyjoy rode in the baggage train, in a covered wayn with two huge iron-rimmed wheels, fettered at wrist and ankle and watched over day and night by a She-Bear who snored worse than any man.†   (source)
  • But as he knelt to unlock the fetters around Reek's wrists and ankles, he leaned close and whispered, "Tell him nothing and remember every word he says.†   (source)
  • Jorah Mormont had removed Tyron's chains and fetters once they were safely under way, and the dwarf did not wish to give him cause to clap them on again.†   (source)
  • In fetters, you're a slave.†   (source)
  • But although he was not fettered, chained, or watched, the doctor had to submit to his unfreedom, imaginary though it appeared.†   (source)
  • They walked in step, jangling their fetters— lost souls, desperadoes who filled one's heart with terror.†   (source)
  • She lures, she guides, she bids him burst his fetters.†   (source)
  • There's a post office and cottages at Churston Fetters-but there's no village or shops.†   (source)
  • She will still wear the shoddy old fetters of class on her feet.†   (source)
  • The life around him was beginning to fetter and annoy him: he wanted to escape from it.†   (source)
  • They were iron fetters, and he had them on his ankles also.†   (source)
  • The tremendous weight of the shadowed earth had engulfed such frail fetters, such snail-shell encumbrances.†   (source)
  • It was with the poor owl; with that foul procedure whereby dirty mouths stinking of plague told a fettered man that he was going to die, and scientifically arranged things so that he should die, after nights and nights of mental torture while he waited to be murdered in cold blood.†   (source)
  • And with the suddenness of snapping fetters the spell broke, and he stared about him too unsteady to rise.†   (source)
  • Well, he saw us at all events, and we found out afterwards that he broke his fetters with his bare hands.†   (source)
  • I looked at him, and believed he spoke the truth; he seemed less fettered than he had been before, more modern, more human; he was not hemmed in by shadows.†   (source)
  • Barriers, fetters, chasms, fronts of every kind dissolve before the authoritative presence of the hero.†   (source)
  • With the people of Uruk, he battled and he captured him and in fetters led him through the gate of Enlil.†   (source)
  • Now Garm howls loud before Gnipahellir, The fetters will burst, and the wolf run free; Much do I know, and more can see Of the fate of the gods, the mighty in fight.†   (source)
  • And since every moment of time bursts free from the fetters of the moment before, so this dragon, Holdfast, is pictured as of the generation immediately preceding that of the savior of the world.†   (source)
  • I have been on the White Hill in the court of Cynvelyn, For a day and a year in stocks and fetters, I have suffered hunger for the Son of the Virgin, I have been fostered in the land of the Deity, I have been teacher to all intelligences, I am able to instruct the whole universe.†   (source)
  • The fetters of those monsters who were chained back in the beginning shall all burst: Fenris-Wolf shall run free, and advance with lower jaw against the earth, upper against the heavens ("he would gape yet more if there were room for it"); fires shall blaze from his eyes and nostrils.†   (source)
  • …a thick carpet of flowers; in the intermundane spaces the eight-thousand-league-long hells, which not even the light of seven suns had formerly been able to illumine, were now flooded with radiance; the eighty-four-thousand-league-deep ocean became sweet to the taste; the rivers checked their flowing; the blind from birth received their sight; the deaf from birth their hearing; the crippled from birth the use of their limbs; and the bonds and fetters of captives broke and fell off.†   (source)
  • Poor, fettered, and sealed Hagars, how she pitied them!†   (source)
  • The iron fetters no more threatened his hands; the iron door no more haunted his dreams.†   (source)
  • When the man Sneed came forward, jingling the iron fetters, Madeline's blood turned to fire.†   (source)
  • His head had been battered in by the fetters of the puma.†   (source)
  • Every day added a link to the fetters of that strange freedom.†   (source)
  • It simply wrenched its fetter out of the wall.†   (source)
  • And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?†   (source)
  • I, who am his fettered slave, know this.†   (source)
  • And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.†   (source)
  • As he moved, a chain clanked; to his wrists were attached fetters.†   (source)
  • Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.†   (source)
  • The fetters of her sin are upon her, and she cannot stir to come to thee.†   (source)
  • Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.†   (source)
  • Ivan wanted to rush to the window, but something seemed to fetter his arms and legs.†   (source)
  • Soon the clanking of the fetters notified him of the progress the chief was making in his round.†   (source)
  • Fetter his lower limbs, and leave him to repose in this bed of herbage.†   (source)
  • Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter.†   (source)
  • As for me, every word was a new heap of fetters, riveted above the last.†   (source)
  • She falters on, her way scarce knowing, As if with fettered feet that stay her going.†   (source)
  • No way but to fetter 'em; got legs,—they'll use 'em,—no mistake."†   (source)
  • Here Tom made some movement of his feet, and George's eye fell on the fetters.†   (source)
  • The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing fifty pounds.†   (source)
  • She springs to her feet: the fetters fall off.†   (source)
  • You will break those fetters, you will flee.†   (source)
  • He takes hold of the fetters to unlock them.†   (source)
  • Sweet pain of love, bind thou with fetters fleet The heart that on the dew of hope must pine!†   (source)
  • I also recited "Laus Deo," and as I spoke the concluding verses, he placed in my hands a statue of a slave from whose crouching figure the fetters were falling, even as they fell from Peter's limbs when the angel led him forth out of prison.†   (source)
  • Now it bound him with insentient fetters, walling his soul in darkness and silence, blocking it from the world which to him had been a riot of action.†   (source)
  • And now a dream of resistance haunts him, hope battling with fear; until suddenly he stirs, and a fetter snaps—and a thrill shoots through him, to the farthest ends of his huge body, and in a flash the dream becomes an act!†   (source)
  • Ah, no; there was beauty and adventure behind, such as the man at her feet had yearned for; there was hope this side of the grave; there were truer relationships beyond the limits that fetter us now.†   (source)
  • Out on the ranges he had abandoned himself to dreams of her; they had been beautiful; they had made the long hours seem like minutes; but they had forged chains that could not be broken, and now he was hopelessly fettered.†   (source)
  • He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious.†   (source)
  • Doubt was knocking at Joe Lake's heart, and conviction had come to this young sealed wife, bitter and hopeless while she had been fettered, strong and mounting now that she was free.†   (source)
  • Except that chastity only apparently triumphed, its victory was a Pyrrhic victory, because the demands of love could not be fettered, or coerced; suppressed love was not dead, it continued to live on in the dark, secret depths, straining for fulfillment—and broke the bands of chastity and reappeared, though in transmuted, unrecognizable form.†   (source)
  • With unutterable misery the fettered little King heard the voices and footsteps fade away and die out.†   (source)
  • The grey block of Trinity on his left, set heavily in the city's ignorance like a dull stone set in a cumbrous ring, pulled his mind downward and while he was striving this way and that to free his feet from the fetters of the reformed conscience he came upon the droll statue of the national poet of Ireland.†   (source)
  • As he passed the end of the church she heard his coughs mingling with the rain on the windows, and in a last instinct of human affection, even now unsubdued by her fetters, she sprang up as if to go and succour him.†   (source)
  • He remembered the something evermore about to be, the unknown always subtly calling; now it was revealed in the stone-fettering grip of the desert.†   (source)
  • They buried the shingle close to the wall, with some dismal ceremonies and incantations, and the fetters that bound their tongues were considered to be locked and the key thrown away.†   (source)
  • For the evening when I cast aside certain pedagogic fetters, of which we were just speaking, and approached her—under a pretense suggested to me by a past experience—was an evening of masks and disguises.†   (source)
  • In fettering the hands of this Lassiter she was accomplishing the greatest good of her life, and to do good even in a small way rendered happiness to Jane Withersteen.†   (source)
  • They had company, for there were some twenty manacled and fettered prisoners here, of both sexes and of varying ages,—an obscene and noisy gang.†   (source)
  • Tore the fetter out of the wall!†   (source)
  • Even the two hours devoted to certain princely pastimes and recreations were rather a burden to him than otherwise, they were so fettered by restrictions and ceremonious observances.†   (source)
  • Then he struggled again to free himself—turning and twisting himself this way and that; tugging frantically, fiercely, desperately—but uselessly—to burst his fetters; and all the while the old ogre smiled down upon him, and nodded his head, and placidly whetted his knife; mumbling, from time to time, "The moments are precious, they are few and precious—pray the prayer for the dying!"†   (source)
  • Yet the ploughman behind his plough, though the snow lay on his ragged great-coat, and the cold clinging mud rose on his heavy boots, fettering him like gyves, whistled in the very beard of the gale.†   (source)
  • It is I who should rather reproach myself for having urged my feelings upon you, and hurried you into words that you have felt as fetters.†   (source)
  • He did not even feel the fetters.†   (source)
  • The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg.†   (source)
  • "These yer 's a little too small for his build," said Haley, showing the fetters, and pointing out to Tom.†   (source)
  • No promises fetter us.†   (source)
  • To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.†   (source)
  • The hero sinks upon his straw bed, weighed down by fetters and misfortunes; in the next scene, his faithful but unconscious squire regales the audience with a comic song.†   (source)
  • I'd send them jabbering Frenchers back into their den again, afore the week was ended, howling like so many fettered hounds or hungry wolves.†   (source)
  • Now I'll be more interesting, and let you see some loose play—giving all the cuts and points, infantry and cavalry, quicker than lightning, and as promiscuously—with just enough rule to regulate instinct and yet not to fetter it.†   (source)
  • 'Oh!' replied Mr Folair, beating his slippers together, to knock the dust out; 'I CAN come it pretty well—nobody better, perhaps, in my own line—but having such business as one gets here, is like putting lead on one's feet instead of chalk, and dancing in fetters without the credit of it.†   (source)
  • …and dull-eyed men there were some whom—thanks to their native human-kindness—even riot could never drive into brutality; men who, when their cheeks were fresh, had felt the keen point of sorrow or remorse, had been pierced by the reeds they leaned on, or had lightly put their limbs in fetters from which no struggle could loose them; and under these sad circumstances, common to us all, their thoughts could find no resting-place outside the ever-trodden round of their own petty history.†   (source)
  • I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.†   (source)
  • Fetters and headsmen were the coarse instruments which tyranny formerly employed; but the civilization of our age has refined the arts of despotism which seemed, however, to have been sufficiently perfected before.†   (source)
  • He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.†   (source)
  • At a certain stage in the development of these means of production and of exchange, the conditions under which feudal society produced and exchanged, the feudal organisation of agriculture and manufacturing industry, in one word, the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters.†   (source)
  • They thought my children's being there would fetter me to the spot, and that it was a good place to break us all in to abject submission to our lot as slaves.†   (source)
  • The first and second were successfully darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly running off, fettered by the enormous sidelong resistance of the towing drugg.†   (source)
  • And yet, the struggle fails; since Light, howe'er it weaves, Still, fettered, unto bodies cleaves: It flows from bodies, bodies beautifies; By bodies is its course impeded; And so, but little time is needed, I hope, ere, as the bodies die, it dies!†   (source)
  • On his wrists and ankles were cicatrices, old smooth scars, and fastened to the stone on which he sat was a chain with manacles and fetters attached; but this apparatus lay idle on the ground, and was thick with rust.†   (source)
  • In the excitement of my opium dreams (for I was habitually fettered in the shackles of the drug) I would call aloud upon her name, during the silence of the night, or among the sheltered recesses of the glens by day, as if, through the wild eagerness, the solemn passion, the consuming ardor of my longing for the departed, I could restore her to the pathway she had abandoned--ah, could it be forever?†   (source)
  • Fines, lost goods, taxes, expenses, loyal charges, salaries, damages, and interests, gehenna, prison, and jail, and fetters with expenses are Christmas spice cake and marchpanes of Saint-John to him!†   (source)
  • This unexpected and, as it seemed to Nicholas, quite voluntary letter from Sonya freed him from the knot that fettered him and from which there had seemed no escape.†   (source)
  • The exquisite gentlemen of the finest breeding wore little pendent trinkets that chinked as they languidly moved; these golden fetters rang like precious little bells; and what with that ringing, and with the rustle of silk and brocade and fine linen, there was a flutter in the air that fanned Saint Antoine and his devouring hunger far away.†   (source)
  • Kim put his fettered soul into it, thankful for the late chance to abuse somebody in the tongue he knew best.†   (source)
  • 'We'll say I don't understand the boy, Clara,' returned Miss Murdstone, arranging the little fetters on her wrists.†   (source)
  • Mr Chivery spoke to the toast, saying, What you undertake to lock up, lock up; but remember that you are, in the words of the fettered African, a man and a brother ever.†   (source)
  • These beings had been fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and loaded hap-hazard on those carts.†   (source)
  • For Elizabeth's sake the former had fettered his pride sufficiently to accept the small seed and root business which some of the Town Council, headed by Farfrae, had purchased to afford him a new opening.†   (source)
  • And I perceive how, under the dominion of certain laws, democracy would extinguish that liberty of the mind to which a democratic social condition is favorable; so that, after having broken all the bondage once imposed on it by ranks or by men, the human mind would be closely fettered to the general will of the greatest number.†   (source)
  • But unexpected difficulties presented themselves, in the oaths with which the policy of England had fettered their establishment; and much time was spent before a conscientious sense of duty would permit the prelates of Britain to delegate the authority so earnestly sought.†   (source)
  • The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions, by which they are fettered, and so soon as they overcome these fetters, they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property.†   (source)
  • The man who growled out these words, was a stoutly-built fellow of about five-and-thirty, in a black velveteen coat, very soiled drab breeches, lace-up half boots, and grey cotton stockings which inclosed a bulky pair of legs, with large swelling calves;—the kind of legs, which in such costume, always look in an unfinished and incomplete state without a set of fetters to garnish them.†   (source)
  • —are thirty-five years to his full strength, and through thirty-five Rains the ringed elephant befriended the younger, and all the while the fetter ate into the flesh.†   (source)
  • One person of mild and benevolent aspect even gave me a tract ornamented with a woodcut of a malevolent young man fitted up with a perfect sausage-shop of fetters, and entitled TO BE READ IN MY CELL.†   (source)
  • But it was not his shaven head and his fetters he was ashamed of: his pride had been stung to the quick.†   (source)
  • He's attached to a pump that sends him air through an india–rubber hose; it's an actual chain that fetters him to the shore, and if we were to be bound in this way to the Nautilus, we couldn't go far either."†   (source)
  • With the fullest acknowledgment of your generous conduct to me in the past, I must still maintain that an obligation of this kind cannot fairly fetter me as you appear to expect that it should.†   (source)
  • We will go to Palestine, where Conrade, Marquis of Montserrat, is my friend—a friend free as myself from the doting scruples which fetter our free-born reason—rather with Saladin will we league ourselves, than endure the scorn of the bigots whom we contemn.†   (source)
  • "I not only understood her, but it was just that inner, spiritual force, that sincerity, that frankness of soul—that very soul of hers which seemed to be fettered by her body—it was that soul I loved in her…. loved so strongly and happily…." and suddenly he remembered how his love had ended.†   (source)
  • "But where is the use of going on," I asked, "when you are probably preparing some iron blow of contradiction, or forging a fresh chain to fetter your heart?"†   (source)
  • As the people is always able to signify its wishes to those who conduct the Government, it prefers leaving them to make their own exertions to prescribing an invariable rule of conduct which would at once fetter their activity and the popular authority.†   (source)
  • While the rest slept, then, we went away a short distance; we severed our fetters with a file the Englishman had given us, and swam away.†   (source)
  • When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out.†   (source)
  • A miserable land must that be, where they fetter the mind as well as the body, and where the creatures of God, being born children, are kept so by the wicked inventions of men who would take upon themselves the office of the great Governor of all!†   (source)
  • Chains led from their fettered feet and their manacled hands to a sole-leather belt about their waists; and all except the children were also linked together in a file six feet apart, by a single chain which led from collar to collar all down the line.†   (source)
  • Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity, which is outraged, in the name of liberty, which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery -- the great sin and shame of America!†   (source)
  • …by bringing in a Bill to do it, that Bill was as good as dead and buried when Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle rose up in his place and solemnly said, soaring into indignant majesty as the Circumlocution cheering soared around him, that he was yet to be told, My Lords, that it behoved him as the Minister of this free country, to set bounds to the philanthropy, to cramp the charity, to fetter the public spirit, to contract the enterprise, to damp the independent self-reliance, of its people.†   (source)
  • What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, fettering down The tasked and plundered slave!†   (source)
  • Whether it was the absence of the fetters or not, it made no very deep impression on Mr Lenville's adversary, however, but rather seemed to increase the good-humour expressed in his countenance; in which stage of the contest, one or two gentlemen, who had come out expressly to witness the pulling of Nicholas's nose, grew impatient, murmuring that if it were to be done at all it had better be done at once, and that if Mr Lenville didn't mean to do it he had better say so, and not keep…†   (source)
  • Then again the kindly influence ceased to act—I found myself fettered again to grief and indulging in all the misery of reflection.†   (source)
  • She had never had little ones to clasp their arms round her neck; she had never seen their soft eyes looking into hers; no sweet little voices had called her mother; she had never pressed her own infants to her heart, with the feeling that even in fetters there was something to live for.†   (source)
  • It was more than a chain, more than a fetter, more than a ring of iron, it was a living pair of pincers endowed with intelligence, which emerged from the wall.†   (source)
  • Though his love was as chaste as that of Petrarch for his Laura, it had made fetters of what previously was only a difficulty.†   (source)
  • The hues of life flushed up with unwonted energy into the countenance--the limbs relaxed--and, save that the eyelids were yet pressed heavily together, and that the bandages and draperies of the grave still imparted their charnel character to the figure, I might have dreamed that Rowena had indeed shaken off, utterly, the fetters of Death.†   (source)
  • We were at Newgate in a few minutes, and we passed through the lodge where some fetters were hanging up on the bare walls among the prison rules, into the interior of the jail.†   (source)
  • Thus speaking, Mr Lenville folded his arms, and treated Nicholas to that expression of face with which, in melodramatic performances, he was in the habit of regarding the tyrannical kings when they said, 'Away with him to the deepest dungeon beneath the castle moat;' and which, accompanied with a little jingling of fetters, had been known to produce great effects in its time.†   (source)
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