Thesaurus / fetter
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I wonder how it comes,” he asked, “that all these strangers are so quick afoot, and we must drag about our fetter?
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe was a grave lad; he had no mind to dance himself; he wore his fetter manfully, and tended his ulcer without complaint.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONHe thought to leave the fetter where it lay, but when he turned to go, his mind was otherwise.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONWhen politics possess the soul, they fetter it with contemptible pride, paltry ambitions.
THE CONQUEST OF ROMEMATILDE SERAOTaking this fetter to the wolf, they bade him try his strength on it.
THE ELDER EDDAS OF SAEMUND SIGFUSSON; AND THE YOUNGER EDDAS OF SNORRE STURLESONSAEMUND SIGFUSSON AND SNORRE STURLESONThe stallion seemed to know that it was a fetter which had touched him, for he shot away from the man like lightning.
THE BACKWOODSMANVARIOUSDespotism cannot fetter thought—that is free everywhere—but it can and does restrain its outworking into practical action.
STANLEY'S ADVENTURES IN THE WILDS OF AFRICAJOEL TYLER HEADLEY AND WILLIAM FLETCHER JOHNSONYet nothing that could in any way fetter his editorial independence or freedom of action could he permit.
HUGH MILLERWILLIAM KEITH LEASKIt was because the wedding-ring was a fetter that constrained my wife, body and soul; because I was as inflexible as steel.
A BOOK O' NINE TALES.ARLO BATESBe they of iron or of silk, the good wife discovereth not; for it is only in an unholy struggle that they bind and fetter.
HUBERT'S WIFEMINNIE MARY LEEWORDS RELATED TO FETTER
- arrest
- bind
- bottle up
- box up
- bridle
- chain
- check
- choke back
- circumscribe
- confine
- constrain
- contain
- control
- cool
- cork
- crack down
- curb
- curtail
- debar
- delimit
- detain
- deter
- direct
- fetter
- gag
- govern
- guide
- hamper
- handicap
- harness
- hem in
- hinder
- hogtie
- hold
- impound
- imprison
- inhibit
- jail
- keep
- keep down
- keep in line
- kill
- limit
- lock up
- manacle
- muzzle
- pinion
- prevent
- proscribe
- pull back
- repress
- restrict
- sit on
- stay
- subdue
- suppress
- tie down
- tie up
- arrest
- back off
- baffle
- balk
- bog
- bog down
- brake
- bring to screeching halt
- check
- choke
- choke off
- clog
- close off
- crimp
- dawdle
- decelerate
- decrease
- defer
- delay
- detain
- down
- encumber
- falter
- fetter
- flag
- hamper
- handicap
- hang up
- hesitate
- hold back
- hold up
- impede
- lessen
- let up
- loaf
- loiter
- mire
- poke
- postpone
- reduce
- set back
- shut down
- shut off
- slacken
- slow down
- slow up
- stall
- take down
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