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Usage examples of "in fetters".
Behind bars, locked in fetters, the voice would bring nothing but ruined hope, like the dream-weaver who had once betrayed him.
With wild magic, he gripped the beast, bound it in fetters of flame and will.
It may be the Queen I described to you, the Queen on the throne, in fetters, who weeps, I don't know why!
It would not have been hard for him to have grasped one of their sword hilts as they manhandled him, but there were too many, and he was still in fetters.
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
You want to put Elizabeth's heart in fetters, and by an unnatural law compel her to renounce her freedom of choice.