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Example sentences for "fetter"

Lexicographically close words:
fetishistic; fetlock; fetlocks; fetor; fette; fettered; fettering; fetterless; fetterlock; fetters
  1. Because, if not, dogma, so far as it coincides with truth, cannot fetter either.

  2. To do so is not to beg the question or to fetter the enquiry, but only to define what kind of evidence, if any, the study of Christ's relation to foregoing history can yield.

  3. Defn: A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

  4. To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.

  5. To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.

  6. Perhaps she was aware of this and laid her plans accordingly, for on the last evening of the session, as he came down the steps of the college and turned toward Fetter Lane, he saw her standing under the lamp-post at the corner.

  7. Once past Temple Bar and in the narrow defile of Fleet Street the author's thoughts darted up Fetter Lane and hovered around a grimy building where he had pursued his studies with the relentless fanaticism of youthful ambition.

  8. To bridal bed we ride; And thou shalt prance a fetter dance Before me and my bride.

  9. Always to hope than once to despair; Fling off the load of Doubt's heavy fetter And break the dark spell of tyrannical care: Never give up!

  10. Evidently, Fetter had given his problem a great deal of thought, and had done more than a little intelligent investigating of his own.

  11. Fetter ripped open the letter and glanced through it with harried eyes.

  12. Fetter leaned forward across the desk, hammering it with both fists to emphasize the word, his eyes gleaming from their deep sockets.

  13. The activities of The Worshipers of the Flame were centered about the chief city of Gio, Fetter had told us, and therefore we were in position to start action without delay.

  14. There's no particular hurry; Fetter will be busy until evening, I imagine, so we won't bother him until then.

  15. Nor any effort or resistance did he make, but lightly suffered them to fetter him, the while the princess most foully mis-said him.

  16. Just above the ankle there was a broad indent where a fetter had bitten into the flesh.

  17. I broke the spell--nor deemed its power Could fetter me another hour.

  18. Then may ye warble, unafraid, Where hands, that wear the fetter now, Free as your wings shall ply the spade, And guide the peaceful plough.

  19. I take credit to myself, however, for affixing a fetter to it, so that you may chain it up if it is too much disposed to wander.

  20. He was robbed of the chain in Fetter Lane, Oct.

  21. When two colonial friends called unexpectedly about noon one day, soon after he settled in London, he went to the nearest cook-shop in Fetter Lane and returned carrying a dish of hot roast pork and greens.

  22. This curious person had originally been a baker in Fetter Lane.

  23. The unfortunate victim went through the Court, and Fleet Street and Fetter Lane knew him no moreā€”for a time.

  24. The State ought to fetter the domination of the money power, and especially to check excesses of speculation, and control the operations of the Stock Exchange.

  25. Shall prayers go up, and hymns be sung For Greece, the Moslem fetter spurning, And millions hail with pen and tongue Our light on all her altars burning?

  26. Then with six horses we laboured on, and finally arrived at Fetter Lane at a quarter to three in the morning.

  27. The "White Horse," in Fetter Lane, Holborn, fell upon evil days when railways revolutionized its custom.

  28. Turning out of Fleet Street into Fetter Lane there was a sort of contest between our chairmen and some persons who were coming up Fleet Street.

  29. An interesting Moravian Chapel has an entry on the east side of Fetter Lane.

  30. Lincoln's Inn across Chancery Lane, along Cursitor Street, cutting across Fetter Lane, down Dean Street to Robin Hood Court, across Shoe Lane to Farringdon Street.

  31. From Farringdon Street to Fetter Lane was Holborn Hill, and Holborn proper extended from Fetter Lane to Brooke Street.

  32. Mr. Spilsbury attributes them to Bernard and Abraham van Linge, but the glass was made by Hall, of Fetter Lane.

  33. Both the Holborn and Fleet Street ends of Fetter Lane were for more than two centuries places of execution.

  34. Progress being the law of life, he would, therefore, enforce upon no man as binding formulae of which the comparative inelasticity might tend to fetter mental or spiritual development.

  35. The question is throughout a personal one, and the implication is clearly not intended that the Roman Catholic Church would necessarily demand of its members this implicit credence, would thus closely fetter the intellectual faculties.

  36. If, mad with transport, freedom thou demand, Be every fetter strain'd, and added band to band.

  37. Hear and obey; if freedom I demand, Be every fetter strain'd, be added band to band.

  38. The giant drew a key from a pouch at his side, and kneeling, unlocked the fetter fastened about Shelby's ankle.

  39. The chain fastened to the fetter was quite adequate to hold him.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fetter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anchor; arrest; bind; bit; bond; brake; bridle; burden; chain; check; chock; circumscribe; clog; collar; cramp; cripple; cuff; curb; damper; drag; embarrass; encumber; enslave; entangle; entrap; entwine; fasten; fetter; gag; halter; hamper; hamstring; handcuff; handicap; harness; hinder; hobble; impede; involve; iron; lame; lash; leash; lime; lumber; manacle; moor; muzzle; net; peg; picket; pillory; pinion; reins; restrain; restraint; rope; saddle; secure; shackle; snarl; spoke; stay; stocks; stop; stranglehold; strap; tangle; tether; tie; toil; trammel; yoke