Noun : Boredom puts fetters upon the imagination. From Dictionary.com.
Have you taken a captive only to see him in fetters?. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth] Reference
Ignatius called his fetters his spiritual jewels; he wore them as. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord's Prayer] Reference
Nebuchadnezzar bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon, and. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Emperor Aurelian caused her to be led through Rome bound in fetters of gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference
Then they laid me in fetters and returned me to my place which was the dungeon under ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
"Nebuchadnezzar bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon"; his treatment there is nowhere mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
But he was fettered, and his fetters were his choice. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
These documents Mr. Goodell described as fetters for Northern freemen, and boldly interrogated the chairman in respect of them thus. From Wordnik.com. [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference
Their fetters from the lakes. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
But tho 'he was chain'd in fetters strang. From Wordnik.com. [Geordie (3)] Reference
Yeah, I'm curious too, PONTI .... what "fetters" on capitalism do you support .... specifically?. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference
"You see my 'fetters' are as loose as they are light, and nothing binds me but my will. From Wordnik.com. [Pauline's Passion and Punishment] Reference
Powerful words and images but I prefer the honesty and symmetry of 'mary baking bread' to the unleashed vitriol in 'fetters'. From Wordnik.com. [A Faithless Sister: Blood Fetters part Three] Reference
People don't always know that they are in fetters. From Wordnik.com. [‘This Is My Mission’] Reference
"I forged my own fetters, Herrick," continued Trent. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters. From Wordnik.com. [The Shins, 'Wincing the Night Away'] Reference
Put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her chains. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
They humbled his feet in fetters: the iron pierced his soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
She stares outwards, as one in the fetters of an awful dream. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
It was a house of confinement where were fetters, ropes and whips. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
In fury, he ordered Suliman to be put in fetters and brought before him. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
To bind their kings with fetters, and their nobles with manacles of iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
The beautiful Berenice definitely bound with fetters of iron the old libertine. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A blacksmith followed and welded my fetters, for locks and keys are never used. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
These he believed fetters which bound the feeble, but which the strong could use. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Doctrine to a fool is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Instead of being fetters, these contradictions seem to have been incentives to the artist. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
He also put out the eyes of Sedecias: and bound him with fetters, to be carried to Babylon. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 29: Lamentations of Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
I tried to force myself from his steady hold, but his knitted fingers were as iron fetters about me. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and a firm foundation, and her chain a robe of glory. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Jan MaarschalkVilliersdorp, South AfricaRick Warren's argument for unfettered free will ignores the iron fetters of the intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Weep for Pakistan?] Reference
And if he be not obedient, bring him down with fetters, but be not excessive towards any one, and do no grievous thing without judgment. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 48: Mark The Challoner Revision] Reference
Canada has not yet shaken off the fetters of her great grandparents sufficiently to bring out in a clear, marked way her own individuality. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
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