Fetters [noun]

Besides a severe beating, they have fetters placed round their neck and feet; these they have to wear for a considerable period.

He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.

With touching naivet the Acts relate that no fetters could be found small enough for her wrists.

It was ever-present, implacable and sinister, yet so long as its fetters held, easily controlled.

Azenor the Pale, writhed with pain under her iron fetters as the flames, reaching her limbs, set her robe and long hair on fire.

And while struggling desperately for just a little happiness, she was forging the fetters of a cruel fate.

We hope we shall not be accused of putting fetters upon genius, by refusing to admire this use of metaphorical language.

His open, generous nature was more easily to be seduced by a liberal conduct than by threats and fetters.

It sometimes gives an impulse so irresistible, that no fetters of power or of opinion can withstand it.

I hear the sound of the hammer, I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still forged for human limbs.