fetter
noun
a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
fetterless
-
a word derived from
fetter.
Example Sentences
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Yes, happy are they in their cold English graves; Their shades cannot start to thy shouts of to-day, Nor the steps of enslavers and chain-kissing slaves Be stamp'd in the turf o'er their fetterless clay.
From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton
Victorious over the stony limitations of dungeon walls and dungeon discipline, fetterless imagination soared into the kingdom of beauty, and fed her lonely soul, as Syrian ravens fed God's prophet.
From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
He promised me freedom—if I married him, I might go out into the great unknown world, fetterless and free; and I, O! fool that I was! consented.
From The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming
Henry remained in Bearn with his parents two years, and in that time ingrafted many courtly graces upon the free and fetterless carriage he had acquired among the mountains.
From Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Their swords have gone forth on the fetterless air!
From War Poetry of the South by Various
