Example Sentences

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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

He, when he left me, went a roving To sunny climes, beyond the sea; And I, the weight of woe removing, Am free and fetterless as he.

From Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell by Brontë, Charlotte

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 Bartley, James Avis

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 Fleming, May Agnes

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 Bartlett, John