Noun : Boredom puts fetters upon the imagination.    From Dictionary.com. 

The spluttering defensiveness, the creepy vindictiveness, all signs of a brain fettered with incipient rot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Der Dolchstoss] Reference

Though 'fettered' slave be none, her floors and soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [HUMANITY] Reference

It was a little like betting on a fixed (or even "fettered") race.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

And they call US ridiculous ... was "fettered" by government regulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [From On High] Reference

And by the wayside he found her, fettered by sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Myths] Reference

Tell is fettered, Mathilda vainly appealing for mercy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

With fettered limbs and spirits, your battle shall be won!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liberty Minstrel] Reference

The press is fettered, and its conductors are incarcerated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

And there are others fettered as firmly, -- but how differently!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference

His imagination dwelt on their two lives, cramped, dwarfed and fettered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

Rochelle was presently fettered with an incredible number of denunciations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

Sculpture, till then, lay fettered and bound up in the severity of Egyptian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference

I refused to accept a position in a law office, because I would n't be fettered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

Ancient poetry was darkly austere and practical; the imagination was fettered by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The traitor earl, who had lost a hand in the fray, was sent bound and fettered to Queen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

He took it in his left, with a smiling glance of apology at the sling-fettered right arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

His face changed, as it will with fear, and he dragged his feet, as though they were fettered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference

He fettered this revolution or reform; but, Señores, it was only for a while and in appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

However, that officer dismounted, entered the hall, and found Sir John fettered and nearly dying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

You know, I like to not be fettered by some calls and e-mails and errands and that sort of thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tift Merritt Performs in NPR's Studio 4A] Reference

The spiritual energy becomes clogged and fettered and strangled amid its entanglement with things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Radiant] Reference

Emperor rebukes him sternly, Henry grows hot, and is finally by order of Frederick fettered and led away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

The blade gleamed in the air, once, twice, and fell: not on the chain, but on the wrist which it fettered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference

One circumstance especially I will recall, which my fettered conscience persuaded me I was obliged to name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional] Reference

With so many lovely and charming scenes to which we can resort, we need not remain fettered to this earth. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Caliph] Reference

I looked lightly on the bonds that meant so much until they fettered me -- held me down, as I then imagined.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference

Mechanical restraint is a remedy of easy resort, but the fettered man frets away strength essential to his recovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference

I suppose a bath is out of the question, or "-- with a glance at his fettered hands --" even a wash may be dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grell Mystery] Reference

All over the world that conspiracy of silence which has fettered thought and prevented open action in the fight is ended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Lost Sister] Reference

But there is little doubt that the sorts would be more carefully selected, if the trade were not fettered by the monopoly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference

But his movements were fettered, the weight that clung to him was too great to bear up against, and little by little he sank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

Mammon has left some hearts that he has not shrivelled, some eyes that he has not blinded, some hands that he has not fettered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference

He was not fettered with a Council of Advice, but he was more absurdly hampered with almost co-equals in the shape of assistants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

Who shall pierce the ancient prison-house where Nature's might, in mightier chains of adamantine frost, lies fettered, since Creation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

In the exercise of their power, the caliphs were fettered neither by popular rights, the votes of a senate, nor constitutional laws: the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

No red tape fettered Simon, as the boys say it tied our generals the other side of Sharpsburg in order to let the Rebs have time to cross.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

In the mean time I was left disregarded; but I was still fettered, or I should have jumped from the waggon, and taken my chance for escape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference