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O free wing soaring in fetterless flight Up to the Fountain of quenchless Light!—

From Poems of the Heart and Home by Yule, J. C.

He will not submit to any of them, but if caught and confined soon breaks away again to his old life, a “free and fetterless creature.”

From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by Jordan, David Starr

What unplummeted abysses of time and distance intervene from the primary rock to the Victoria Regia! and again from the first crawling spine to the fetterless mind of a Schelling!

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

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 Hamilton, Lady Anne

When he appeared again as the rescuer she had flung herself into his arms with an appalling fetterless joy.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel