fetter
noun
a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
fetterless
-
a word derived from
fetter.
Example Sentences
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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
Fainter and fainter—'tis heard no more— That plaintive strain from Earth's lessening shore— And I fling its weight from my fetterless wing, Higher and higher in heaven to sing, Afar from Earth's faded shore!
From Poems of the Heart and Home by J. C. Yule
O free wing soaring in fetterless flight Up to the Fountain of quenchless Light!—
From Poems of the Heart and Home by J. C. Yule
I walk beneath thy forests, high and lone, I hear a voice that sinks into my heart, The voice of fetterless Liberty; the tone Which bids the flame of patriotism start.
From Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by James Avis Bartley
Oh the heart is a free and a fetterless thing,— A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing!
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
