On the pothooks and trammels hung what formed in some households the costliest house-furnishing,--the pots and kettles.
On the one hand, it nourished a spirit of mysticism, which, though recognized in its favorite appellation of the Seraphic Order, sometimes found the trammels of orthodoxy oppressive.
The licence of an assumed character was necessary to restore his genius to the privileges of nature, and to give him courage to break through the tyranny of fashion, the trammels of custom.
How often it happens that the child of God or the servant of Christ, harnessed with human devices for his work, finds himself burdened and hampered with these trammels to obedience and faith.
Europe to Mexico, there to reign with absolute power, free from the trammels of a Constitution.
So he lived always on the wing, and ended by exiling himself from Sardinia in order to escape the trammels of paternal government.
He had given up almost everything to become a Christian, and he could not understand why the Society would not support him to work on his own lines, without the trammels of rules and regulations.
Her golden locks that were in trammels gay Upbounden, did themselves adown display, And raught unto her heels like sunny beams That in a cloud their light did long time stay; Their vapour faded, shew their golden gleams.
Schoolgirls we, eighteen and under, From scholastictrammels free, And we wonder - how we wonder!
Ballad: Speculation Comes a train of little ladies From scholastic trammels free, Each a little bit afraid is, Wondering what the world can be!
They show, like the treatise on development, that Harvey had by no means emancipated himself from the trammels of authority.
The newly raised troops belonging to the Parliament, as yet ignorant of the trammels of discipline, broke into the houses of suspected persons, rifled them of their contents and often sold their booty for the merest trifle.
Harvey's youth, his comparative freedom from the trammels of authority, and his more logical mind, enabled him to outstrip his master and to avoid the errors into which he had fallen.
It is the time for which they have always longed—a time of liberation, of emancipation from the trammels of earth and flesh, the end of continuous dying and the beginning of lasting life.
It is in the inner sanctuary and alone, divested of fleshy trammels and freed from the bondage of earthly attachments, that the soul is able to meet its God and hold intimate converse with Him.
They appear to be breaking out from the trammelsof Egyptian and Assyrian styles, which by meeting had engendered life; and Greek art was the child of their union.
They broke away from the ancient trammels of customary forms, and replaced law with liberty of thought, and tradition with poetry.
The character of the Renaissance of the sixteenth century, just released from the trammels of Gothic traditions, was somewhat lawless in England, being unchastened by the classical element which entirely controlled the movement in Italy.
By the time he left Cambridge, at twenty-four, it had become clear, both to himself and his family, that he could never submit his understanding to the trammels of church formularies.
He shakes himself loose from thetrammels of traditional exposition, and looks at the texts for himself.
Stronger than the trammels of custom and law, is her religion, which teaches that her condition is Heaven-ordained.
What an emancipation from little petty vexatious trammels and annoyances every hour of the day.
Even in the trammels of Pietro Perugino, dry and servile in his style of design, he traced what was essential, and separated it from what was accidental in his model.
His heroic conduct raises the hero out of the rut of his existence, liberates him from the trammels of his individuality and enlarges this to represent a community, its longings, its resolutions, its determination.
In straining to shake off the trammels of manner, he often fell into mannerism the most infelicitous; and the impression too commonly left on the spectator is that of energy wasted and talent misapplied.
One day a means will surely be opened for you both to break these hateful trammels that bind you to this unsafe life of fraud and deception, and unite in happiness as man and wife.
The trammels of our narrow world are so hypocritical, our laws so farcical and full of incongruities, and our civilisation so fraught with the snortings of Mother Grundy, that I can only tell you the truth and offer no defence.
