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  • A few hot-air balloons pulled at their tethers against the darkening pink sky, their passengers shooting safety fireworks at other balloons and passing parasailers.   (source)
    tethers = ropes (holding them down)
  • Laila watched a trio of men far below, talking near a cow tethered to a fence.   (source)
    tethered = tied
  • The goat was tethered in the center of the field, thirty yards from the nearest trees.   (source)
  • Were we going to steal the clapper of the school bell, or would we tether a cow in chapel?   (source)
    tether = tie
  • They were very fat goats, but the fattest of all was tethered to a peg near the wall of the compound and was as big as a small cow.   (source)
    tethered = tied
  • Maybe all that anger was the last string tethering him to sanity as he waited.   (source)
    tethering = tying
  • I'm guided by the pure Anne within, but on the outside I'm nothing but a frolicsome little goat tugging at its tether.   (source)
    tether = rope (limiting movement by tying one end of a rope to a fixed location and the other end to an animal)
  • I knew that if I kept going that way, I'd touch or fall over the length of life-line rope that tethered the raft.   (source)
    tethered = tied
  • I light a fire, for we have brought supply of wood with us, and she prepare food while I undo the horses and set them, tethered in shelter, to feed.   (source)
  • And as soon as there was a lull you could hear his high-pitched yells of encouragement to Kala Nag, above the trumpeting and crashing, and snapping of ropes, and groans of the tethered elephants.   (source)
  • The colts were tethered behind the tents, and the mares were driven to them twice a day.   (source)
    tethered = tied so as to limit the boundaries of movement
  • The playground at Emerson was covered with lush green grass watered by a sprinkler system, and it had more equipment than I'd ever seen: seesaws, swings, a merry-go-round, a jungle gym, tether balls, and a running track.†   (source)
  • Their horses are tethered apart.†   (source)
  • Gus ate bits of sunfish roasted on a stick and they slept there in front of a fire, tethered collar to belt by a length of string.†   (source)
  • Then having satisfied himself that the dogs were securely tethered, the cat alit from the palm to the floor and without even bothering to arch his back opened his little jaws and hissed.†   (source)
  • Lifeboat and raft were now tethered.†   (source)
  • A horse was tethered by the door.†   (source)
  • Maybe the music was a tether.†   (source)
  • …nice about it but there were boxes and bits of broken bowl on the floor and everyone was staring and I saw that you had wet yourself and I was so cross and I wanted to take you out of the shop but you wouldn't let me touch you and you just lay on the floor and screamed and banged your hands and feet on the floor and the maniger came and asked what the problem was and I was at the end of my tether and I had to pay for two broken mixers and we just had to wait until you stoped screaming.†   (source)
  • She had made no attempt to parallel park but had instead pulled into the space front end first as if tethering a horse to a hitching post.†   (source)
  • Celaena's warning cry was carried away by the wind as Grave set about sawing Nox's rope from its tether on the gargoyle.†   (source)
  • The tents were being blown from their ties to the earth, and the animals were being freed from their tethers.†   (source)
  • Facing him was the sad but stubborn heroine with the count beside her, and their horses, tethered to a nearby oak, were neighing and pawing the ground, impatient to be off.†   (source)
  • She says it'll keep me tethered to humanity.†   (source)
  • Tether balls that could splash a girl's head all over the playground in front of laughing friends.†   (source)
  • The tethers were rushing and whipping around her, like a canvas tent come loose from its stakes.†   (source)
  • It can never have understood why it was forced to live in such misery: bewildered by noise (as I imagine), distressed by smoke, barking dogs, cooking smells, teased by drunkards and children, tethered to fly on the shortest of chains.†   (source)
  • Attached to my waist was a three-foot-long safety tether with a carabiner, or snaplink, attached to myself to a teammate at the distal end.†   (source)
  • Even when we're not talking, it's like there's an invisible cord tethering us together, matching our rhythms, our arms and our legs, as though we're both responding to the same drumbeat.†   (source)
  • Even fairies tethered to the human realm can survive the ages.†   (source)
  • When Snowfire and Cadoc were safely tethered, he opened the door with an iron key and let them inside.†   (source)
  • The sixth line went, and now there were but two lines tethering the balloon to the gondola, attached to opposite corners.†   (source)
  • Sarai turned her face to the window and together, not speaking, they watched the red sun hang like a tethered balloon on the edge of evening.†   (source)
  • I think I was reaching the end of my tether.†   (source)
  • The procession passed the Austrian Village and Captive Balloon Park, where a hydrogen balloon tethered to the ground took visitors aloft.†   (source)
  • Our comic book superheroes defy gravity in various ways, whether through flight directly (Superman), tethers (Spider-Man), or gadgets (Batman).†   (source)
  • She paddled closer, and saw that the shape was actually two vessels, an ancient fishing boat tethered to a small barge.†   (source)
  • Or just a house---solitary under a chinaberry tree; maybe a mule tethered and the light hitting its hide just so.†   (source)
  • The chopper tries several times to rise, but it may as well be tethered to the asphalt by this point.†   (source)
  • I am trapped here, hovering …. tethered to my earthly shell.†   (source)
  • A vehicle was driving into the parking lot, a dusty truck with two goats tethered on the open loading platform.†   (source)
  • Kochu Thomban had finished his ceremonial rounds, and lay tethered to a wooden stake next to a steaming mound of his own dung.†   (source)
  • Whether it was God and angels or God and adrenaline, he would never know for sure, but on only his second attempt he succeeded in rolling the canoe over, freeing Josh from his tether.†   (source)
  • Even our paintbrushes in school were tethered to artscreens, our pictures wiped away almost immediately after we finished them.†   (source)
  • I made it nearly a quarter mile before the darkness and my dazzled vision betrayed me and I ran headlong into a horse tether, crumpling to the ground in a painful heap.†   (source)
  • I peeked over the side to see if she was in our rowboat, where I had found her one day, tethered to the dock, rocking in the water, her face to the sun, eyes closed, and as I'd peered down into the dazzling reflections of the river, at her beautiful, still face, she'd suddenly opened her blue eyes and said nothing to me, and I'd said nothing back and gone into the house alone.†   (source)
  • She couldn't sever their tie any more than she could cut the wire tethering him to the ship.†   (source)
  • For the next twelve days Jenny remained hospitalized, poked and prodded by a parade of perinatalogists and tethered to monitors and intravenous drips.†   (source)
  • We ended up with mummified bodies and eternal souls tethered to them, and no one followed up!†   (source)
  • " Luke's body went suddenly limp as he toppled off the bull, his hand still tethered to the wrap.†   (source)
  • He plucked the baby out, carried him back inside, and tethered him into the Snugli that Selena wore around the house.†   (source)
  • Then at last, the Freak Tent, the great melancholy mothering reptile bird, after a moment of indecision, sucked in a Niagara of blizzard air, broke loose three hundred hempen snakes, crackrattled its black sidepoles so they fell like teeth from a cyclopean jaw, slammed the air with acres of moldered wing as if trying to kite away but, earth-tethered, must succumb to plain and most simple gravity, must be crushed by its own locked bulk.†   (source)
  • An emaciated bay horse is tethered to a stake beside him, out of its head with terror.†   (source)
  • He was finished, at the end of his tether.†   (source)
  • My body dangles, tethered by a rope hooked to my belt.†   (source)
  • The sight of Bigwig—Bigwig of all rabbits—at the end of his tether, half unconscious, playing no part in this desperate exploit, lowered his courage still more.†   (source)
  • British crewmen had been spotted scurrying about in the boats tethered beneath the HMS Somerset and the HMS Hoyne in Boston Harbor.†   (source)
  • August 2: By this morning the wind picked up and the waves broke over the bow and swept across the deck, over the cabin, and all the way back to the stern, where either Hamilton or I was tethered to the wheel with a rope around our chest.†   (source)
  • Newt could just make out a thin mule and a small donkey, tethered at the entrance of the hut, beyond the fire.†   (source)
  • There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants.†   (source)
  • It was as if I was attached to her with a tether, her every movement yanking at me, my own hands reaching to shield her from the dangers of her waving arms.†   (source)
  • So we decided to extend our tether to thirty-three meters.†   (source)
  • Dad the tether that kept Sams—and me—from hurtling into the nullity of deep space, a nullity himself now.†   (source)
  • The one that makes me want to release tethers, fly away.†   (source)
  • I returned to the end of my invisible tether and battled my despair.†   (source)
  • Nothing will tether her to the ground.†   (source)
  • It fl ew up toward the ceiling and then bobbed pathetically at the end of its tether.†   (source)
  • The sky was speckled with puffy silver blimps tethered to the ground by long webs of cable.†   (source)
  • She sat near the board that tethered Sister Mary Joseph Praise's arm, blood finally running from a bottle into a vein.†   (source)
  • It took him five minutes to rip up the sheet halves and form a short tether.†   (source)
  • Then off they dashed with their prize, the "unfortunate" Lee, hatless, still in his dressing gown and slippers, mounted on Wilkinson's horse, which happened to have been tethered at the door.†   (source)
  • Anteros had been tethered all night in the garth and had trod the soil there into grassless craters.†   (source)
  • In the steel-tethered book at the restaurant's public phone, he found a number and an address for Nora Vadance.†   (source)
  • Jeb rolled his eyes at the way they'd tethered themselves to me to avoid expulsion, and then turned his back on us.†   (source)
  • I edged over carefully on stockinged feet to the window, watched her tether the horse, pick a white bundle out of the trap, and carry it into the house.†   (source)
  • Tethered to Cooper was a vye.†   (source)
  • The rest of the horses were tethered in the wards.†   (source)
  • Dozens of wasps' nests hung just overhead, suspended from the high concrete ceilings on immensely long, weblike tethers.†   (source)
  • He's raging like a mad dog at the end of his tether.†   (source)
  • He grabs our belongings in both hands and heads to the mule cart tethered at the far side of the general dealer's.†   (source)
  • The elephant Trails no tethering-rope; that king Is not yet crowned who will peg an elephant— Not even you my friend and King.†   (source)
  • I'm the only thing tethering him"—he thrust out an arm, indicating Sebastian's glass coffin—"to this world.†   (source)
  • Quite frankly, Alessandro, I'm running to the end of my tether with doing the Giulianis favors.†   (source)
  • He walked slowly to the rail where the horses were tethered: gentle Traveler, skittish Lucy Long.†   (source)
  • This came from Oz, who was so ex-cited the boy seemed to float above the supple grass like a tethered bubble.†   (source)
  • A black and white goat tethered near by was staring at me and for what seemed minutes I stared back into its slanting yellow-green eyes.†   (source)
  • When he reached the area where Kooa was tethered he was moving so fast he overshot.†   (source)
  • Patting its nose, clucking, he led it to a tree and tethered it and brought it water.†   (source)
  • For a moment they seem to converge on the boy as he stands in the middle of the stable, but then they swiftly turn and take up positions as if tethered by the head, with their invisible rumps towards him, one by each bench.†   (source)
  • Three bony horses were tethered to the bandstand railing.†   (source)
  • For if I had only humored Nathan, jollied him along, I just might have watched him expend all of his rage—no matter how unreasonable and intimidating it was—and out of pure exhaustion fall into a state where I might have found him manageable, his fury smothered or at least on a tether.†   (source)
  • A light anchor went down and they were left, the bow of one tethered to the stern of the other and both within the swing of the Fayre Eleyne.†   (source)
  • And almost as soon as it had been put up the monument had been destroyed, leaving only bits of bronze and the mocking words, gibberish to the people who now used the open space in front as a market and bivouac, with their goats and crated hens and tethered monkeys (food, like the goats and hens), for the two days or so before the steamer sailed.†   (source)
  • You tether catastrophes, using a snake for rope.†   (source)
  • She could see the windmill at home, fluttering like some kind of gaunt, tethered bird.†   (source)
  • A riding horse was tethered to a tree.†   (source)
  • We could put a belt round her waist and tether her to a peg stuck in the ground.†   (source)
  • Like a tethered goat, so far and no farther.†   (source)
  • She looked softly at him as if from a distance down a little road or a tether he sent her on.†   (source)
  • Presently the horses began to scream, and tore at their tethers till I came to them and quieted them.   (source)
    tethers = restraining ropes
  • Everyone drew back slightly as Hagrid reached them and tethered the creatures to the fence.†   (source)
  • The great gray hippogriff, Buckbeak, was tethered in front of Hagrid's cabin.†   (source)
  • When the ruckus died down, they discovered Snow's body, still tethered to the post.†   (source)
  • He saw it, floating above the yard, tethered to the house.†   (source)
  • Two figures in space suits were floating outside, each tethered to the ship by a thin cord.†   (source)
  • She was snugly tethered, but there was no one about, which made me nervous.†   (source)
  • BECK FLOATED in the airlock, tethered to a wall-mounted spool.†   (source)
  • His mind seemed barely tethered to his body, much less the earth.†   (source)
  • He threw me a rope and I tethered his boat to mine.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, the hippogriff should be kept tethered and isolated.†   (source)
  • Tethered at the end of it, one end of his rope around a large rock, was Buckbeak the hippogriff.†   (source)
  • I brought out a second rope and tethered the raft to the lifeboat with it.†   (source)
  • I just finished attaching all the tethers we have into one long line.†   (source)
  • The tethers are linked and spooled in Airlock 2.†   (source)
  • Stewards tethered the garrons in long lines, and saw them fed and watered.†   (source)
  • In less than a minute, he had tethered all four venti.†   (source)
  • Ponies, walking in circles and tethered to a wheel, were hot and tired, their heads hanging low.†   (source)
  • We reach a small clearing where the horses are tethered.†   (source)
  • I pointed to a riding ring where a dozen horses were tethered.†   (source)
  • He found a small farmhouse, center of many lights, many horses tethered outside.†   (source)
  • "Hai," he said softly and extended his arm to the tethered perch.†   (source)
  • She struggled to get up, but she was tethered to the bed with tubes and wires.†   (source)
  • A hot-air balloon was floating there, straining at the tethers that anchored it.†   (source)
  • They were tethered to hooks embedded in the fleshy ground.†   (source)
  • When we got to the cottage, a strange pied horse was tethered to the post by the watering trough.†   (source)
  • ELESIN My sash is of the deep purple alari, It is no tethering-rope.†   (source)
  • It was still moored in the harbor, tethered to the main pier by heavy ropes.†   (source)
  • The cow had been separated from the herd and tethered to a tree by a rope tied to her horns.†   (source)
  • A gigantic dragon was tethered to the ground in front of them, barring access to four or five of the deepest vaults in the place.†   (source)
  • Halfway up the field stood an extravagant confection of striped silk like a miniature palace, with several live peacocks tethered at the entrance.†   (source)
  • A patch of trailing phoenix burst into flame near the tethered "brids and one of the terrified animals-hobbled and blindfolded as it was-broke free and lunged through the circle of glowing arrestor rods.†   (source)
  • He tethered you to life while he lives!†   (source)
  • Or will the sled dogs heed her plight, break loose from their tethers, tear in through the canvas, rip this guy to pieces, tentacle by tentacle?†   (source)
  • As Alex walks through the store, I think that there's an invisible thread tethering us together, and somehow it makes me feel more powerful than ever before.†   (source)
  • The camp resembled an expensive yard sale as we spread our gear among the boulders to sort clothing, adjust harnesses, rig safety tethers, and fit crampons to our boots (a crampon is a grid of two-inch steel spikes that is clamped to the sole of each boot for purchase on ice).†   (source)
  • Two days later he passed a house on Claiborne and saw the same blue-and-white boat tethered to the porch.†   (source)
  • Carter's heroine, Fevvers (whose name paradoxically suggests both "feathers" and "tethers"), is a woman whose flying act has made her the toast of circuses and music halls across Europe.†   (source)
  • In the mow, he sat the dogs in a circle and knotted a treat into a rag and tethered it to one of the fly lines threaded through a pulley in the rafters.†   (source)
  • The boat (that Estha sat on and Rahel found) was tethered to the tree stump next to the steep path that led through the marsh to the abandoned rubber estate.†   (source)
  • When we crested the dune, I was surprised to see several people wading in the shallows with their dogs securely tethered to leashes.†   (source)
  • Harry felt strangely unreal, and even more so when he saw Buckbeak a few yards away, tethered to a tree behind Hagrid's Pumpkin patch.†   (source)
  • If Ahmad, made of the same stuff her husband was—and both of them made of the stuff of their father Mahmoud, who could survive two days at sea tethered to a barrel—felt this to be a dire situation, then if anything, Kathy was underreacting.†   (source)
  • Sarai had studied offworld for two years at the University of New Lyons on Deneb Drei, but she was homesick there: the sunsets were abrupt, the much-vaunted mountains slicing off the sunlight like a ragged scythe, and she longed for the hours-long sunsets of home where Barnard's Star hung on the horizon like a great, tethered, red balloon while the sky congealed to evening.†   (source)
  • On the far side of town, the pale chambered heart of the Lute water tower hovered in the night sky, tethered to the earth by four metal legs and the central stalk of its drainpipe.†   (source)
  • Four more lines needed casting off, and then we'd no longer be tethered to that infernal little pirate ship.†   (source)
  • Small travelling fairs pitched their booths and rides and tethered their ponies and donkeys, parades wound themselves up there, and dispersed into picnics.†   (source)
  • She led them past the paddock where the huge Beauxbatons horses were standing, huddled against the cold, and toward a tree on the edge of the forest, where a large and beautiful unicorn was tethered.†   (source)
  • The tethered dragon let out a roar, and a gush of flame flew over the goblins; The wizards fled, doubled-up, back the way they had come, and inspiration, or madness, came to Harry.†   (source)
  • He tried to step back, but the thing bounded equally forward, tethered to him by some unseen force, staring with black marble eyes as though beholding a monster, panting throatily and turning and snapping at its hind legs and whirling to face them again, a beard of gray foam lining its jaw.†   (source)
  • They crept through the trees until they saw the nervous hippogriff, tethered to the fence around Hagrid's pumpkin patch.†   (source)
  • Finally, I resolved the problem by driving an oar, handle first, deep into the algae and tethering the boat to it.†   (source)
  • Off the Aurora's port side, there was nothing but beach, so the crew was tethering her lines to mooring spikes, driven deep into the sand.†   (source)
  • The dots on the i's and j's were circular, placed far to the right, as if the dot were a small black balloon tethered to its stem by an invisible thread; the cross-strokes of the t's were one-sided.†   (source)
  • Make sure you're both tethered in."†   (source)
  • I strung the stills together, tying one end of the flotilla to the lifeboat and the other to the raft, which meant that not only would I not lose any stills should one of my knots become loose, but also that I had, in effect, a second emergency rope to keep me tethered to the lifeboat.†   (source)
  • The hippogriffs were tossing their fierce heads and flexing their powerful wings; they didn't seem to like being tethered like this.†   (source)
  • I stared, breath stoppered in my throat, at those four bits of metal that tethered the burner frame to the gondola.†   (source)
  • He's tethered in me pumpkin patch.†   (source)
  • The Aurora's officers and crew had their hands tethered and were lined up together against the outer wall, beneath the windows.†   (source)
  • Once I cast off the bow lines, assuming Bruce had done his work, the Aurora would only be tethered by the stern, and anything more than a breath of wind would shift her.†   (source)
  • Tonight, before slipping off into the dark, he'd turn them loose among the horse lines, after Sweet Donnel Hill and Clubfoot Karl cut the tethers.†   (source)
  • Most of the others sat slumped and sleeping in wheelchairs lined up in front of a huge television screen, all tethered to oxygen tanks like withered balloons.†   (source)
  • He pulled up in front of Sheb's and tethered the horse, which lowered its head and grunted at the ground.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, flocks of starlings broke into flight as the car passed, moving in unison as if tethered together by string.†   (source)
  • He decided there was something more beautiful than an off-course projectile: the Athena Parthenos gleaming in the sunrise, flying in from the coast, suspended from the tethers of six winged horses.†   (source)
  • Julie took it, and as they began to stroll the boardwalk, their shoes clicking against the wood like the clip-clop of tethered carriage horses, Mike felt the warmth of her hand radiate up his arm, right toward the center of his chest.†   (source)
  • But I don't like the idea that the pinlegs could be tethered to something else— something it can summon at a moment's notice.†   (source)
  • As a kid, he'd always been fascinated by the swarmlike way they would break from the trees when he clapped, as though they were tethered together.†   (source)
  • Then the animals were coaxed on board much to their displeasure-and immobilized by tethers lashed to iron rings in the hold.†   (source)
  • In surprising contrast to the ship's staggering grandeur, a slender rope was all that tethered it to the dark rocks of Brigit's Vigil.†   (source)
  • I knew I should run and dive in but another feeling was holding me back, like tethered weights on my legs, this pulling-down horror of what I might see.†   (source)
  • He'd walked the beach and searched for God, and somehow, he realized, he'd been able to mend the fraying ropes that had tethered him to his children.†   (source)
  • Officer Whitaker released Shay's handcuffs from the bar where he was tethered and led him back to his cell.†   (source)
  • It was too cold for a picnic, but they had one anyway, sitting under a magnolia tree with the horses tethered to a split-rail fence.†   (source)
  • At the mills, Roran dismounted and tethered his horse to a hitching post before the lowest of the three buildings.†   (source)
  • These houses used to be semihovels; Josef's old territory, where beer-saturated fat men sat on the front porches, sweating in the August heat, while their children screamed and their dogs lay panting with frayed ropes tethering them to the fence, and paint peeled from their woodwork and the dispirited cat pee marigolds wilted along their cracked walkways.†   (source)
  • Tethered to posts outside were colossal riding animals: horses, rams, yaks, and, yes, donkeys—each roughly the size of Kilimanjaro.†   (source)
  • I thought it better to retrace our course and find out whether he had left a horse tethered anywhere along it.†   (source)
  • As he descended the winding stairs to the beach, he began to make out the Kestrel hovering in the air above the dock, tethered by a dozen slender ropes.†   (source)
  • We lie there, tethered to each other by the fragile promise of our fingers while the night grows bolder.†   (source)
  • Lord Bolton appeared briefly in the outer ward to inspect the scene, then ordered the remaining horses brought inside, along with the mounts still tethered in the outer ward.†   (source)
  • Only Boaz--a black Arabian and presumably Silver Star's counterpart--remains tethered, and he's clearly unhappy about it.†   (source)
  • It was with great difficulty that I dragged her back to the cabin where, once she was firmly tethered, she reacted by howling her frustration the whole night through.†   (source)
  • They were tethered together, but there was a fatal tear in this stalk, a jagged opening caused no doubt by Stone's fishing with the basiotribe.†   (source)
  • What's he tethered to?†   (source)
  • But he knew that didn't mean they were any less desperate than folks who tethered their survival to dirt, seed, and the fickleness of rain.†   (source)
  • We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.†   (source)
  • The horses tethered in the yard neighed with fear, creating such an uproar that Eragon finally inserted himself in their minds and calmed them with words from the ancient language.†   (source)
  • He welcomed the opportunity to fly with her, but he disliked the prospect of being tethered to the same twelve or so miles for the whole day, circling vulture-like over the slow-moving troops.†   (source)
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