He himself would free her of those shackles even if he had to fight her fiery will to do it!
Those who would rule do not dread untruths; the shackles of truth are reserved for those who will fall under their sway.
Whatever we cage, shackles us with desire whose bonds are stronger than those of iron chains.
My fare was still the captive's mouldy crust, My chains still reeked with clotted gore and rust, The rigid shackles still retained their clutch, And clammy walls repulsed the friendly touch.
Though limbs as free and restless as the wind Are not to shackles readily resigned, Complaint, with oath and bitterness replete, In prisoner is doubly indiscreet.
Insidiously, and by remote ways, as well as by the power of stick and stone and clout of hand, were the shackles of White Fang's bondage being riveted upon him.
The feel of spring was in the air, the feel of growing life under the snow, of sap ascending in the trees, of buds bursting the shackles of the frost.
To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter.
Steep me, steep me some poppies deep In beechen bowl, to bring on sleep; Love hath my mind in shackles kept, Thrice the cock crew, nor once I slept.
He would set his own success against Peter's failure; and he would take off his hat to the memory of the immortal statesman, who in freeing one race had emancipated another and struck the shackles from a Nation's mind.
The colonel watched the wretches, in coarse striped garments, with chains on their legs and shackles on their hands, unloaded from the train and into the waiting wagons.
It did this subsequently under the stress of external events in the effort to throw off the shackles of British oppression.
But then it seemed to me that both had thrown off the "shackles of convention.
What are the gaudy trappings of wealth but so many shackles imposed by luxury!
One of your freemen would require shackles to be placed on many, ere scope and verge sufficient could be found for his restless activities.
The door in the end of one of the sheds was thrown open, and there issued forth a long line of black figures, walking two and two, and secured together by iron shackles round their wrists.
High o'er the central arch display'd Old Janus shuts his temple door, And shackles war in darkest shade; Saturnian times in view once more.
Then forth from it, to the accompaniment of terrified squealing and trumpeting from the female elephants, Badshah stalked, ears cocked and tail up and the light of battle in his eyes, broken iron shackles dangling from his legs.
No shackles were needed to secure the elephant when his white rider dismounted from his neck, for he followed Dermot like a dog, came to his whistle, or stood without moving from the spot where he had been ordered to remain.
Badshah stopped and sank on his knees, while his master cast off the broken shackles and swung himself astride of his neck.
Ramnath, hurriedly entering the impatient elephant's stall, loosed him from the iron shackles that held his legs.
May I not appeal to you to review these questions, to throw off the shackles of preconceived notions and of party prejudices, and consider them anew in the light of all the information that is accessible to you?
But thou hast explained to me that Christian teaching is an enemy of life, since it shackles it.
And to-day, because of David Livingstone, through all the thousands of miles of Africa over which he trod, no man dare lay the shackles of slavery on another.
The shacklesof civilization are oppressive to Rousseau, and yet he would impose the yoke of the state upon consciences.
Malesherbes had not yet laid their enterprising hands upon the old fabric of French administration, and already painting, sculpture, architecture, and music had shaken off the shackles of the past.
Ignorance may blind it; prejudice mislead it; and superstition overawe it; but when the natural vigor of its disposition is aroused it will assert its rights in defiance of creeds, shackles and stakes.
Bolts, dungeons, shacklescannot confine it; racks, flames and gibbets cannot extinguish it.
By this act of piety he yielded up his personal freedom, and became ironed with the shackles of an eternal slavery.
I wear myshackles more contentedly for having respired the breath of an imaginary freedom.
The iron shackles of Silence--are they not broken?
Shall I, your king, wear shackles like his slaves?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shackles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bond; manacle; restraint; shackle; trammel
