fettering
- present participle of fetter.
Example Sentences
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With iron censorship fettering the Press last week, shocking reports circulated by word of mouth throughout the Peninsula and the Isles of Greece.
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, this is not aid but a handout of leftovers from the master's table made conditional upon fettering obligations .
From Time Magazine Archive
It would not do to let Mr. Standish think that even El Diablo Cojuelo could manage to keep Don Carlos a prisoner without fettering him.
From Bandit Love by Savage, Juanita
Like the present conflict, that was one between an old and firmly rooted principle that had outlived most of its usefulness and was fettering liberty, and a new principle that meant emancipation.
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
He tried to rise from his bed, but some strange heavy weight seemed to lie upon him, fettering him there, so that he could not move.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
