Example Sentences

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“Now, by my halidom, but I will fetter this monster and break the enchantment, or never see this place again.”

From The Seven Champions of Christendom by Kingston, William Henry Giles

You fancy, perhaps, that this snare, into which I have fallen, will fetter my hands and prevent me from undoing your work.

From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.

Yet one thing will fetter it worse, only one thing—if you, in any respect, stay behind?

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert

I will fetter these fancies roaming; Already the sun has dipped; I will trim the lamps in the gloaming, I will finish my manuscript.

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

This web of trouble, which your own hands have woven around your life, will fetter and gall you at every step in your future journey.

From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)