He cut off the golden locks that clustered on her fair cheeks, he clothed her in rough raiment, and bound her in fetters which gave her no rest by night or by day.
The drawings now become more individual, and are freed from the fetters of conventional tradition--a proof of the free development of both political and artistic feelings, even among the lower classes of artificers.
He is a fool who does not seize the hand of Fortune when tendered by the laughing goddess--a fool who does not break his fetters when he has the power to rend them.
Under the squeeze of the tightened fetters his wrists throbbed steadily and racking cramps ran through his arms.
But the mere thought of enduring again what he had already gone through--the thought of being tagged by crowds and stared at, with his fetters on--filled him with a nausea.
Neither place, however, was under such fetters as Black Rock, and the two divisions might very possibly be assembled despite the hostile fleet.
The fact of such preparation fettersevery movement of the enemy.
The startling intelligence produced a sense of sadness during the journey, and led to solemn thought with desire to break fetters and let this order of Sabbath slaves go free.
She can the wildest wolf with fetters bind, Yet she capricious to the worst of men Accords her favours, and is prodigal Of treasure to the vile and base alone.
Late vanquish’d by the Asar brave, Excluded from the solar ray, Bound in the mountain’s deepest cave, In fetters Lok of Utgard lay.
The intelligence that the investigation he had hoped for was not to be granted to him had rendered doubly bitter those galling fetters of self restraint which he had laid upon himself.
His fetters compelled him to take short steps, and, as he walked, he winced as though the iron bit him.
My fetters will leave a mark on all my actions, however virtuous.
After the Provost was gone I heard the man's fettersclanking again.
When she might have gone free, her woman's love surviving all that he had done to kill it, chained her to his side with fetters which old wrongs and present danger were powerless to break.
The fetters of the acrostic structure forbid freedom and progress of thought, and almost compel repetition.
The fetters make the limbs move less violently, and there is soothing in the ordered expression of disordered emotion.
The Swiss, men of little originality, found their theories in the writings of Italian and English critics; and from these they learned how literature might be freed from the fetters of pseudo-classicism.
And now, during our interviews at her hotel and in the church of St. Gilles, she had, in the most innocent way in the world, forged fetters on me which I had no desire to shake off.
The apparition was bound by no fetters to that terrible sitting-room of mine.
This incident serves to indicate how lightly all dramatic fetters sat upon Berlioz while "La Damnation" was in his mind, and how little it occurred to him that any one would ever make the attempt to place his scenes upon the stage.
Do you forget who bade the morning break, And snapped the fetters of the iron years?
Not by chance, therefore, but by the clearest interworking of cause and effect, these fetters of sin grow upon the feet of the sinner, while the ruined soul mourns in the latter days.
She was confined in fetters of gold; a slave supported the gold chain which encircled her neck, and she almost fainted under the weight of her jewels.
His idea, that the relation of the sexes must be freed from the oppressing fetters of a lame morality that degrades every human emotion to the plane of utility and purpose, I heartily endorse.
Hence it was plain that the Romans were receiving the ‘fetters of Greece’ from the hands of Philip, and that the Greeks were getting, not freedom, but a change of masters.
Fifthly, he was one of the few men to whom one must be equal in order to resist their will; and any one who would play the juggler's trick of throwing a padlock on his mouth slyly, soon had one to fetters and manacles on his own soul.
He, at least, had not these inhuman fetters which it was death to suffer and death to cast off; he, indeed, could make the world his servant.
At length he looked back with something like horror at that old life in which the fetters of ignorance had weighed so terribly upon him.
It is wicked to put fetters on his wrists before ever he has seen anything worth taking.
Ivanhoe means that, since he is a prisoner, fetters and shackles would be good device for his shield.
Before the citizens were astir, they had been removed from the prison to a strong chamber called the spoliatorium, the press-room, where their fetters and chains were removed.
Mamón, put off the execution till after the coming of the Almayne leech; but see that the fetters sleep not on the evil doers!
That which maketh manifest is light; he who keepeth his candle under a bushel at such a time and in such a cause as this, forges fetters for himself, as well as for the slave.
Some who are prone to run away, have iron fetters riveted around their ancles, sometimes they are put only on one foot, and are dragged on the ground.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fetters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bond; chain; iron; manacle; restraint; shackle
