Fettered
['fetəd]
Definition
(a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
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Examples
- She saw clearly enough the whole situation, yet she was fettered: she could not smite the stricken soul that entreated hers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Will Miss Lucy be the sister of a very poor, fettered, burdenedencumbered man? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I sank down in a chair, and tried to utter some reply; but my tongue was fettered, and my sight was weak. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- If ever an oppressed race existed, it is this one we see fettered around us under the inhuman tyranny of the Ottoman Empire. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Certainly Crispin knew, but Crispin, fettered by his promise of secrecy, was unable to solve the problem. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Keep your girls' minds narrow and fettered; they will still be a plague and a care, sometimes a disgrace to you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And at any rate, she lost nothing by continuing the engagement, for she has proved that it fettered neither her inclination nor her actions. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Proceed, said Madame; but my hand was fettered, my ear enchained, my thoughts were carried off captive. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It had needed a sort of tempest-shock to bring her to the point; but there she was at last, fettered to a fixed day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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