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So, toiling with the plough for many years and staying in one place has fettered me.

From A Captive of the Roman Eagles by Dahn, Felix

This has been no small hindrance to their conversion, and has fettered the hands of many ministers of the gospel, and subjected them to great doubts and perplexities.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 1604-1605 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

She has fettered the energies of the people, while she has fattened upon their industry.

From Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom by White, Trumbull

Life, dear friend, is far more cruel; I cannot break the chains and bonds in which it has fettered me.

From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Heyse, Paul

Once more this mighty passion, that our aimless civilisation has fettered and maimed and sterilised and debased, gripped me and filled me with passionate delights and solemn joys—that were all, you know, futile and purposeless.

From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)