Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. From LearnThat.org. [Charles Colton (c.1780-1832).]
Noun : Boredom puts fetters upon the imagination. From Dictionary.com.
Thursday (called in French Jeudi gras and in German fetter Donnerstag. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
"fetter" on the technological means of production, a fetter that is ready to be burst asunder. From Wordnik.com. [Warren Ellis] Reference
Your old-fashion'd faith does but fetter the mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
With which they would fetter our free souls in vain. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
And now she wore a fetter, albeit of gold, on her hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Promise] Reference
If they cannot fetter him, they snare his feet in traps. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
We have hatred, dark and deep, for the fetter and the thong. From Wordnik.com. [The Liberty Minstrel] Reference
Perhaps it is the little fetter that seals my engagement to him. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
By purging Humanity's spirit, and snapping Hate's tyrannous fetter. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
A square fetter was then fitted and placed around the neck of each. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832] Reference
They threw the gold bracelet into the scale to lighten the iron fetter. From Wordnik.com. [A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851] Reference
Accept nothing however pleasant, if it conceals a fetter into thy Soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
Quietly unclasping the fetter, he removed it from his ankle, and stood free. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
His face is turned from us; he has not the prisoner's garb, nor any kind of fetter. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
It is a bauble meant to gratify her: why make it a fetter, be it ever so light a one?. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
Mask it as courteously as I would, the fact remained that it was undoubtedly a fetter. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
Who is there in this assembly that would help to fasten a fetter upon Oregon or Mexico?. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
As well dam up the waters of the Nile with Bullrushes as to fetter the steps of Freedom. From Wordnik.com. [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference
Even the limitations of the senses would hardly fetter him in his explorations in the regions of the. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
Under such conditions it would be most unwise to cramp or to fetter the youthful strength of our Nation. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The thirst after wealth is but like fetter in this world; the virtue of those that seek it is sure to suffer. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
When disappointment comes meet it, but do not carry it along with you; nor fetter your spirit by changeless haste. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration] Reference
Be they of iron or of silk, the good wife discovereth not; for it is only in an unholy struggle that they bind and fetter. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Henry, still diplomatically suave, was less than ever prepared to accept conditions which would fetter him inconveniently. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Cabinets, but he likewise had many foibles, and his position seemed to fetter his talents and give full play to his foibles. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
And glorious passion, too, it seemed, so stern and repressed -- a passion which hugged a fetter, a splendid misery of denial. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
The needle, which has been the fetter of so many women, became, however, in her hand, magnetic, and pointed her to her destiny. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
The galling chains, that bind his body, do also fetter his intellectual faculties, and impair the social affections of his heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
Bakahenzie leap to his feet and in one stroke recover his lead and fetter his most dangerous enemy by proclaiming in a loud voice. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Three times he was offered a seat in the Cabinet, but he refused each time, because official position would fetter his special work. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Such knowledge not only leaves us unmoved, -- it has a tendency even to fetter the free play of the mind and to chill the imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
My heart ached to see how thin the hand had grown, and how easily that little fetter would fall off when I set my captive lark at liberty. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
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