Noun : the trammels of custom. From Dictionary.com.
He was not very patient with what he called the "trammels" of society. From Wordnik.com. [Ester Ried Yet Speaking] Reference
The trammels of the palfrye pleasde his sighte; 55. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
She feels like one dazed in the trammels of opium. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
His father had got into the trammels of the Archbishop of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
For the first time released from the trammels of her class. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
In that society we live above the trammels of artificial life. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
I had the sense of liberation from the trammels of time and space. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
Even at this moment the trammels of her ancestry were on her; she made no answer. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Hero is a people, emancipated from Old-World trammels, setting the world a lesson. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
When away from the trammels of office, Mr. Gladstone taught his elder children Italian. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Old Man] Reference
His oratory was marked by the entire absence of trammels, of rhetoric gesture or even grammar. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
These ancestral trammels have all been shaken off, wherever the acquisition of money is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education] Reference
Can you not free your mind from the trammels of it, and grasp something higher, better, and nobler?. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
He was the first physician to relieve medicine from the trammels of superstition and the delusions of philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
He would speak to her, as one soul might speak to another, unhampered by all the trammels of outward circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
He can make conquest of it who has sufficient energy to detach himself from the fatal rubbish that trammels our days. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
In the penultimate decade of the eighteenth century the trammels were taken off, and a Union was soon found necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
This was what we were coming to after having emancipated ourselves from the trammels of a dead or effete superstition!. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
These enterprising advocates sometimes indulge in flights of rhetoric that scorn the trammels of grammar and dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
He was too weak to break the trammels at home, as you did, -- let himself be forced to preach what his soul knew was a lie. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference
The Chilians are an active, intelligent, wide-awake people; are great fighters and free from the religious trammels of Peru. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
The genius of Cimabue extricates itself at a bound from the trammels of preceding systems, and flies vigorously towards nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
She was a lady who avowed herself fortunate in having escaped all those trammels which hinder people from following their own bent. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
They do not break through the trammels of custom, not so much because these trammels are strong, as because their impulses are weak. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Is there a boy breathing who has not pictured himself, free as a bird on the wing, shaking off the trammels of home in this fashion?. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
At the age of eighteen, he had broken loose from the trammels of Argyle's control, and joined the standard of the Marquis of Montrose. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Look upon us, ye people! we offer you an image of the human race, freed from trammels, and risen into new life from the death of forms. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It was rather a longing for personal independence, for freedom from the trammels of a society in which he had little faith or interest. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Emancipation from the coat and hat is synonymous with leisure, enjoyment, and freedom from the formal trammels of public and civic life. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
There are eight acts of liberating one's self from all subjective and objective trammels, and as many states of liberty (vimukti) resulting therefrom. From Wordnik.com. [A Record of Buddhistic kingdoms: being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline] Reference
Whigs, a group of statesmen who were determined to free English politics from the trammels of court influence and the baser traditions of the party system. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
He that goes a journey shakes off the trammels of the world; he has fled all impediments and inconveniences; he belongs, for the moment, to no time or place. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
His action seemed to indicate that the fighting forces of the North, if free from the trammels of Washington red tape, could, and would, carry on energetic war. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference
It invites, in a certain degree, moral philosophy to don the trammels of mathematics and decorate its shadowy shoulders with the substantial yoke of the calculus. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
But two of these mystic schisms need we touch upon in this article, in order to show to what lengths the Mujik will go in his efforts to escape from the trammels of. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
When it was seen that she was bent on pressing forward, it was decided to set her free from ordinary trammels and allow her to act in future as a pioneer missionary. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
It is, writes Wills, "the folly that will be his lasting legacy," and one that "could catch in its trammels the next president, the way Vietnam tied up president after president.". From Wordnik.com. [Arianna Huffington: Memo to America's Middle Class: Obama Is Just Not That Into You] Reference
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