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Youth and social approval allied themselves with me and we trammeled memories of slights and insults. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
Some were talking quietly to each other, some re-tying their laces, others just staring down at their feet as they trammelled the mud. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z
Much of this ground has been well-trod, not to say trammeled. CNN's 'The Sixties' is a familiar flashback 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z
Lycius says to Lamia, “How to entangle, trammel up and snare / Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there / Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose?” Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XIII 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z
His reputation as a writer is trammelled by the controversial public events in his own life, namely the political voyage he has made from the left of South American politics to the libertarian right. Mario Vargas Llosa: an unclassifiable Nobel winner 2010-10-08T10:50:00Z
She particularly likes fictional treatments of "restraint", emotions trammelled or kept down, as when marking, in Middlemarch, "a delicate chapter, low-keyed emotions but minutely traced". From the margins 2010-04-02T23:05:00Z
Not bad for a frolicsome off-Broadway curiosity taking the less trammeled “Avenue Q” route. Tony nominations 2015: Patterns in a chaotic Broadway season 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z
When he brings his cattle to eat the alfalfa, they will spread their waste across the fields and trammel old vegetation into the earth. Could this new version of an old grain help fight climate change and feed the world? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z
The Supreme Court has not confronted questions about whether the law’s wording or application trammels First Amendment rights. Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z
Critics worry that some countries are behaving opportunistically, using the coronavirus outbreak to justify such legislation rather than looking for other ways to address misinformation without trammeling free speech. Singapore introduced tough laws against fake news. Coronavirus has put them to the test. 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z
Here had at long, long last arrived the day when LSU, that jalopy long trammeled in primitive offense and thumping defeats, came to Alabama and stormed up and down the field like some attacking symphony. Joe Burrow and LSU stave off Alabama in an offensive, streak-busting showcase 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z
Once my children learned to speak, it was curious to observe that their own anxieties trammelled along similar lines, the necessity of attaching a cause – any cause – to their fears. Starting school can be a traumatic experience – for the parents | Emma Brockes 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z
Making Britain an example to other Euroskeptics is not a valid argument for trammeling up the process, since any country that opts to quit will very likely do so for its own reasons. Opinion | Britain Stumbles Toward Disunion 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z
We can help former convicts without trammeling people’s fundamental right to employ their property as they see fit — and that starts with putting an end to Seattle’s misguided new housing ordinance. Landlord rights trammeled by Seattle’s criminal-history law 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z
The U.S. government trammeled on the civil liberties of an entire group of people in the name of patriotism and defense. Montana Editorial Roundup 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z
Men are "never quite so trammelled or devoured by domesticity" Seriously? Making House: Notes on Domesticity 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z
The other patients in the facility seemed beaten down by the irreversibility of their situation, but Fidyka projected an intense, if trammelled, physicality. Can an Unorthodox Operation Cure Paraplegia? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z
But there remain some bureaucratic trammels that the owners, to their dismay, must face the old-fashioned way. Building a Start-Up Culture in a Broken-Down Economy 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z
Lochner asserted that “majorities don’t possess an untrammeled right to trammel.” The 110 year-old case that still inspires Supreme Court debates 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z
Thomas Jefferson viewed the Old World as a redundant Ruritania where brave souls were weighed down by the ‘monkish trammels of priests and kings.’ This Thanksgiving Let’s Finally Stop the Nonsense About the Puritans and Pilgrims 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z
But for me, the darker scenario in 1984 is the reimagining of the English language into Newspeak, and the trammeling of thought it implies. Dumping 'Metro' for 'just Windows' marks Microsoft's descent into Newspeak 2012-08-14T15:31:36Z
We resign ourselves to our trammelling globe,—as the gold-fish do,—forgetting. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z
No previous sovereign had ventured thus to trammel the Inquisition. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z
We cannot wonder that he speedily emancipated himself from the trammels of recognized judicial procedure which, in preventing him from committing injustice, would have rendered his labors futile. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z
He imbibed the spirit of the classical school, but his genius never was trammelled by imitation. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z
Below, is the rejoicing spirit, freed from the trammels of the flesh. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z
A pair of trammels should, however, be set to the proper length of the rod and these marks tested. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
Thus we find that the high state of perfection which the surgical art has attained is solely due to the efforts of industry to free itself from the ignoble trammels of bigotry and prejudice. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
Preferably this was made in the "summer kitchen," where three kettles, usually of graduated sizes, could be set over the fire; the three kettles could be hung from a crane, or trammels. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z
Philosophy was freed from the trammels of false systems, and speculated securely and deeply on the divine and human nature. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z
Men of sturdy common-sense, men with brains and the knowledge how to use them, are every day bursting the trammels of an effete orthodoxy.” Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z
Thus, suppose the trammels be set to the crank pin centres of a locomotive, then the bar will stand horizontally. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
Our poet Rowe has beautifully pointed out the facility with which a noble and martial soul can free itself from love’s ignoble trammels. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
Never believe thou hast adopted the trammels of a pursuit bounded by progress because thine own progress bounds thine own pursuit. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z
The former, following intellectual guidance, found itself coming more and more into antagonism with the spirit, not yet freed from the trammels of imagination. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z
His conduct became daily less trammelled by accepted rules. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z
The sensitive shrink appalled; those whose latent propensities to violence are usually kept within bounds by the law of order escape from its trammels. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z
They themselves are grovelling and groping in the dark whenever they pretend to fly from the trammels of empiricism, and, like our forefathers, account for what is unaccountable. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
The doctor continued— 'James, had you gone, though it had been but for an instant, to see that unhappy patient of Kerr's, your trammels would have been broken. A Life's Secret A Novel 2012-02-13T03:00:17.060Z
He seems the first to have completely shaken himself free from the trammels of classic or mediæval literature. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z
Slowly she faded and sank to rest--peacefully, serenely, with no last buffeting against the trammels of this life--as an infant sinks into refreshing slumber. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z
"Have you been trammelled with an undutiful son?" The Story of Charles Strange, Vol. 3 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:22.303Z
To this hour mankind, even in enlightened nations, are fettered by these absurd trammels. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z
It is so comfortable to wear this style”; and she skipped around as every other girl on earth has ever done the very moment she felt relieved of the trammel of skirts. The Girl Scouts at Rocky Ledge Nora's Real Vacation 2012-01-20T03:00:14.427Z
Every now and then," she says, "I feel the necessity of escaping from the trammels imposed by publishers, editors, and the supposed taste of the public. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z
In that careful pondering we can feel and see his ripening moral preference grow clear and free from trammels of every sort, and gain towards decisions that know no other influence but reason wholly purified. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z
She has shaken off the trammels of female servitude, and prefers to travel in all the simplicity of a humble income. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z
Even in its mode of conceiving and arranging those subjects it is in part still trammelled by the rules and consecrated traditions of the past. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z
It is clear that he has made an effort to shake off the literary trammels of his time, and that he has succeeded. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z
Easier than ever before will it be to shake off the trammels of tradition and precedent, and inaugurate approved though novel political policies. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z
With fancies, as with wine, our heads we turn, Aspire to heaven, and earth's low trammels spurn; But, when we drop this fleshly clog, 'tis seen From dust we came, and back to dust return. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z
At last it bursts its trammels, he tosses patronage and intrigue to the old political Shylocks, and inspires the policy of the world. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z
Besides, the two former were in the employ of a court, and consequently under the trammels of Kingcraft, which ever has, and ever will find its interest in the support of Superstition and Priestcraft. An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... 2011-12-24T03:08:05.883Z
When they get entangled in the meshes of priestcraft, are seldom able to burst the trammels; and so it has happened in the case before us. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z
Long years after he bemoaned his ignorance and want of education when he felt all the drawbacks, the trammelling, the holding-down of it, when he realised how it handicapped him in the race of life. The Boyhood of Great Inventors 2011-12-05T03:00:46.233Z
Let not base avarice enslave thy mind, Nor vain ambition in its trammels bind; Be sharp as fire, as running water swift, Not, like earth's dust, the sport of every wind! The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z
At a given signal he sallied forth to meet the bull, which, infuriated by sight of horse and rider, dashed from his trammels and went straight to the charge. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z
The disc is turned about two hundred and twenty-five degrees, or a little less than three-quarters of a revolution; then the line marked “Exhaust closes 1 and 4” will register with the trammel point. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z
Before the train was signalled I realised for the hundredth time the magnificent superiority of the Irish mind to the trammels of officialdom, and the inveterate supremacy in Ireland of the Personal Element. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z
When a people has succeeded in throwing off publicly the trammels of Ecclesiastical legislation, as England, Italy, Spain, France, Austria, Belgium, and other nations have done, they by no means shake off their private shackles. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z
With the bonds and trammels of civilisation he had lightly discarded also its outward and visible tokens. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z
A year of editorial work was sufficient to convince him that it was not possible for such a temperament as his to be trammelled by fixed hours, and strait-jacketed by observance of detail. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z
It is prevented from doing this by the popular trammels which environ it. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z
His heroic conduct raises the hero out of the rut of his existence, liberates him from the trammels of his individuality and enlarges this to represent a community, its longings, its resolutions, its determination. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z
Meanwhile Madge, though freed from the trammels of Miss Snellgrove, was very busy at home with her trousseau and other matters. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z
But even here I find myself trammeled by the want of necessary funds. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. 2011-11-03T02:00:18.037Z
Once on this lofty plane, the individual would not be trammelled by material obstacles, but would abide in that spiritual placidity which is the exquisite realization of mortal perfection. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z
The emancipation from denominational trammels was of great service to the young minister. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z
Once released from its trammels, the Napoleonic principle had fair play. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z
As a vanquished race, subordination is the inevitable lot of the Natives, but it is edifying to see how they hug its trammels with perfect complacency. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z
He had the force to break the trammels of tradition. Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College 2011-10-08T02:00:24.723Z
But Victor Hugo's French is too peculiar and impassioned to be brought within the trammels of English verse. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z
Ever since the revolution of 1688, England has never been free from the trammels of some such dominant faction or other; and what have been the consequences? Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z
But they found it harder than they had supposed, to free themselves from the trammels of custom. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z
On the whole, the form of literature which succeeded best in emancipating itself from the trammels of religious controversy in the 16th century was the drama. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z
Monsieur le cher Epoux will have a pretty tight job of it to get her into conjugal trammels! he will, faith!' The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:29.433Z
Is it not time, even yet, to have done with the puerile trammels of prejudice?—Yes! The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z
This circumstance affords indubitable proof, that a man in office can never prove himself free from the trammels of party, or unwarped by elevation to power. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z
Louis XIV. resolutely broke the numerous threads which had trammelled the power of his predecessors. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z
He simply gave it a new and independent development, and freed it from the trammels of scholastic dogmatics. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z
Certain it is that he worked in bonds and trammels. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z
Many of these trammels to correspondence were removed by special conventions before the Postal Union came into being. The History of the Post Office in British North America 2011-08-31T02:01:37.743Z
The steps by which Christianity was gradually freed from the trammels of Judaism and became a religion of unlimited range and universal fitness were clearly not those stated in the Acts of the Apostles. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z
It must therefore express the limitations, now removed, by which He once condescended to be trammelled. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z
Truly does our author observe, that Christianity came to deliver mankind from such trammels, though the mistaken or interested zeal of some of its servants, has so often attempted, and successfully, to fasten them again. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z
What I had long foreseen happened, he was beginning to feel the trammels of civilization and wrestled against them, while its comforts still attracted him. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z
A pair of dividers or trammels is used to cut the abrasive material to the same diameter as the disc and it should be warmed on the uncoated side before it is applied. Advanced Toy Making for Schools 2011-07-24T02:00:09.413Z
You are to start free from some trammels that we feel. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z
Whenever the spiritual energies of the ancient saints received a fresh access, they were seen to strive against and shake off some of the trammels of a literal and servile legalism. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z
On pothooks and trammels hung the brass and copper kettles, some with a fifteen gallon capacity, and that most beloved pot of iron, which sometimes weighed as much as forty pounds. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z
He had little clothing on, and no shoes, so he was not greatly trammeled in swimming to the drifting hencoop. Ruth Fielding Down in Dixie Great Times in the Land of Cotton 2011-07-17T02:00:32.150Z
Huxley and Sully wrote their masterly essays in the 9th edition of this encyclopaedia, the doctrine of evolution has outgrown the trammels of controversy and has been accepted as a fundamental principle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z
The company is also facing rising concerns that it’s using leadership in advertising to trammel competition. Google Income Rises on Mobile, Display Ads 2011-07-14T21:29:53Z
His house was a place where the trammels of conventionalism could, without offense, be cast off for a while. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z
For years to come he would not be subject to the trammels of civilisation. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z
Yet why should it?—except that the trammelled imagination of a canting world reads crime into what is no crime at all.” Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z
O, Mrs. Fisher, how trammelled and crippled our consciences have been! Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z
The scholastic theology and science of the Middle Ages and the spiritual institutions of the Catholic Church were no trammels to Dante's thought and aspiration. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z
Or may not some individual, on whom the passion for play has violently seized, break out of such trammels, and rush on, unobserved, to his own destruction? The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z
American Enterprise Institute scholar and pundit Rick Hess accused Duncan of trammeling on the Constitution. The No Child Left Behind Showdown 2011-06-16T09:00:00Z
“The trammelled imagination of a canting world reads crime into what is no crime at all.” Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z
He had imagined that he had severed all connection with the outside world and that never again could he endure the trammels of conventional social life. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z
Originality in every kind startled the mind which could only pace in the trammels of authority. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z
I had lived too much in the East to be trammelled with the conventionalities of Europe, and my friend felt as much, for he cringed at once after the manner of his race. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z
In his work, as in all German art, the national character asserted itself above every trammel of external influence. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z
"Were I Ru I should break through her trammels at any rate, and show myself a man," remarked George. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z
Quick as thought, Badger freed the dog from his trammels, and bade him fetch the cattle. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z
The destiny of Spenser was to be thrown among courtiers, and to wear the silken trammels of noble patrons—a life of honourable dependence among eminent personages. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z
Weak, unorganised, bound by a thousand trammels, the people of the country can only be saved by the towns, and the people of the towns guided by Paris. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z
Fully as much as the play, it requires obedience to the laws of art, and demands that the artist be not fettered and trammelled as to his ideal. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z
He could look back upon it without regret, for its trammels had galled him, and the wider scope of the new one appealed to him. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z
They too were like men, differing indeed from men only in so far as they were already in the other world, and thus freed from the trammels and limitations of our present existence. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z
And as he had got rid of the trammels of the old love he was able to set sail gaily and make for the open sea. An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. I (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) 2011-04-14T02:00:43.727Z
Yet there is a profound state which sets this aside, and divests the mind of all trammels, and brings it into direct contact with the thought atmosphere of the world—the psycho-ether. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z
He opened his friend Lionel's letter, and was surprised to find how filial affection had blinded his judgment,—keen enough when exercised without the trammels of prejudice. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z
Men were clamoring for freedom from the trammels of the past and were pressing forward to the new day. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z
At last it struck him to pretend to sleep, And then the thievish Monkies down would creep And filch the unpleasant trammels quite away. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z
It means forgetfulness of trammels and all sordid, petty things, and being in tune with the harmonies of nature. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z
Most graceful and most sweet, then—I admit that the combination is a rare one, but she should be dancing all alone; for, alas! the ballroom has its mask, and the dual dance its trammels. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z
If wine expands the heart, it has a similar influence on the credulity; and belief, when divested of the trammels of cool judgment, takes a flight which even imagination might envy. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z
There was yet a fireplace in the kitchen, down whose wide-throated chimney the stars might shine upon the seething samp-pot swinging on the trammel and the bake-kettle embedded and covered in embers. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z
Let no false pride of seeming consistency deter us from an avowal, which omitted, may trammel and impede our action. Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters 2011-03-06T03:00:21.020Z
We scorned the trammelling window, and chose to mingle with our fellow-men, with our fellow-butcher-and-baker boys, as well as with little knots of intrepid, amused women, like ourselves. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z
Whereas to be obliged to wear shabby gloves would have been a kind of "trammel" he would strongly have objected to. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z
His own contribution to ethics was vitiated at the outset by the fact that he never shook himself free from the trammels of the philosophy which his own system was intended to supersede. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z
We are rather struck with its conventionalities, with its strict adherence to fixed form, with its somewhat stilted diction, and we wonder how it came to be so great and natural within these trammels. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z
The Italian was a being who seemed to stand above all the forms and trammels of everyday life, and there was no one in the company who did not willingly accord her this distinction. Riven Bonds. Vol. I. A Novel, in Two Volumes 2011-02-16T03:00:38.687Z
He soon succeeded in removing the trammels imposed upon his authority, and made himself king in everything but name. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z
But I do hate the trammels,—I've cut loose so long, you see. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z
I have been trammelled enough with orders from headquarters. The Courier of the Ozarks 2011-02-09T03:00:43.267Z
The Custom House does not seriously trammel the convenience of traders between this country and the Continent, and it was found endurable when the variance between England and Ireland was more formidable than now. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z
I throw over all the claims of ceremony; but at the same time I don't want to impose the trammels on my friends. The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:16.820Z
No man, however great his powers, can ever, in this world, escape from the trammels under which nature enjoins and permits the exercise of the brain. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z
After this rebuff she made application to the University of Edinburgh, which, like the other Scotch universities, had always boasted of its broad-mindedness and freedom from educational trammels. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z
Had we not cast off the trammels of the world? The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z
The whole room was to have been finished in eight years; but ill-health and other vexations trammelled the artist, and the series remains uncompleted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z
He is as yet very little trammelled by want of opportunity, and he has no roots to speak of in place, class, or religion. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z
How if a more essential beauty should presently appear, free of these trammels of process, independent of acquirement and painful lore, dissociated from performance—shining, self-sufficient, its mere existence its own justification and law? The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z
Once upon a time, Microsoft used the dominance of Windows and Office to bulldoze its way into new territories, gleefully trammeling over any company that dared get in its way. Will Windows Phone 7 Help Microsoft Get Its Mojo Back? 2010-11-19T06:55:00Z
You mean—he may be sought by it and seized, Held in the trammels of it for a truth That ...! Porzia
He delivered himself up wholly in this moment to that old yearning to shake off the trammels of his present existence, to be stripped of all that made the world envy him. Capricious Caroline
Love is like the dawn which, slow of coming in northern skies, yet breaks through the trammels of night to swift and glorious radiance in the south. A Blot on the Scutcheon
Under such conditions it was impossible that any man should exhibit his powers to advantage; but at a later period, when he had got rid of those trammels, his singular abilities vindicated themselves. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845
As an editor writ222ing for other editors, he found himself trammeled by what he called their narrowness and timidity. The Home Life of Poe
He was at first trammelled by instructions from the Maryland Assembly the members of which hoped for peace without recourse to arms. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
But what struck him as most lovely in her, was the languorous, yielding tenderness of her whole being, as if she had loosened herself from the trammels of earth and floated in space. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers
I hate the petty trammels of the curled and scented darlings of the rich! The Gay Adventure A Romance
He envied Trimble his freedom from the trammels of education, which for such a long while would prevent himself from taking such a step as marriage by license. Sinister Street, vol. 1
All of which would go to show that Winn Hardy had not as yet entirely escaped the trammels of his inherited honesty and bringing up, which insensibly led him to judge others by himself. Rockhaven
He was returned to Congress the next year still trammelled with instructions which he truly predicted would soon be removed. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
To be admitted to these galleries was not only to receive a signal mark of royal favour, but to enjoy the important privilege of freedom from the trammels of the trade gilds. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John"
In the capacity of mayor, I should find myself trammelled and no longer independent on account of the office. The Progressionists, and Angela.
Boehme is always greatest when he breaks away from his fancies and his trammels, and allows speech to the voice of his heart. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea"
Would the “spirits,” think you, who are divorced from the trammels of this world, have been guilty of this simple error and have been obliged to correct it afterward, had they not been impostors? The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters
Freedom of speech is a constitutional privilege—he used the same liberty practised by his opponents and which was not then trammelled by the obnoxious Sedition Law. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
I seek not to trammel her will by any authority of mine. Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency
To the eye, they were free from the foreign trammels in which he was seemingly entangled, yet many of them in heart turned back to all which strove in vain to bind his affections down. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus
The old political war-horses saw how things appeared to an intelligent contemporary who was not trammelled by tradition and parliamentary procedure. Patricia Brent, Spinster
It is hard enough to be a human being, fettered by a thousand trammels, by ailments, consideration for others, and all sorts of misery; but to suffer want beside! On the Heights A Novel
We are simply more trammeled and less frank. The Day of His Youth
This, of course, trammelled enterprise, and now, on a mere miscalculation, we were brought suddenly to a stand still. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II.
Till that moment the world has been a comparative blank; the trammels of school or the ties of tutorship have bound and restrained you. Jack Hinton The Guardsman
It was, moreover, far less trammelled by rules than the sister variety of drama. A Short History of French Literature
See, how she unites, Even under such monstrous and torturing trammel, With the grace of the leopard, the speed of the camel! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15
Let us by all means shake off the trammels under which education has groveled—under which she still groans. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4.
They have, of course, no regular medical education, but practise upon some old treatise or manuscript recipes, and even in their small practice they are trammelled by want of medicines. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II.
Every one appeared to her so poor, so forlorn, so trammelled! Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine
Before she can shake herself free from the trammels of tradition and even superstition which now hold her down, it is probable that her race will have become practically extinct. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10)
But in his later works he swung clear of these trammelling archaisms, and produced brilliant and memorable compositions. Dürer Artist-Biographies
It may be doubted, however, whether his copious and ebullient style could ever really subject itself to the trammels of dramatic form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin"
I will be that which the moment or the event shall make me,—neither trammelled by the past nor awed by the future. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance
But the dignity of ambassador carried another drawback besides expense; his function of “honourable spy” was seriously hampered by the trammels of his position. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth"
All her plans of bold independence and of contented life, of isolation from social trammels, and freedom from woman's weaknesses, had broken down. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5.
The libraries have not killed sincerity; they have done no more than trammel it. A Novelist on Novels
Nelly was not sorry to obtain permission to act free of all trammels, and went off to her room to write her letter. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly
Panic-stricken spectators, few of them armed, rose from their benches and rushed headlong for the exits, trammeling, pushing, fighting to gain the streets, to escape the raving horde of crazed demons. Warrior of the Dawn
Philanthropy would often seem unhappily to have a dislike to the practical—the generous emotions appear shorn of their freedom, when trammelled with the fruit of experience or reflection. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago
It is the tempest, and hinders the hastening ship; it is chaos, and trammels the birth of a world. Toilers of the Sea
The triumphs of the courser have frequently been lost in the trammels of the riding-school. Priests, Women, and Families
Young, next, in a bolder spirit, having broken the trammels of Pope, which had confined him, soared up through Night and all its worlds, and brought down genuine inspiration on his adventurous wing. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2
They constitute a highland clan, free from the trammels of caste, and they have the manly bearing and independent spirit natural in men who have been from time immemorial the lords of the soil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright"
Besides, in all these various walks I should have had the worst of all "trammels," a patron. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas
In all that he does he is free from the trammels of convention; but his chief triumphs are in a field that is sadly neglected in modern art. Artists Past and Present Random Studies
I do not know: it seems but just that one should be so left, untrammelled, to choose between heaven and hell: but who can shake off trammels,—make themselves naked of their birth and education? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864
But the youth soon felt that to him the trammels of a strict faith would be unbearable, and he lived on from year to year, uncertain what profession to choose. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)
And even if such be needful, why must the personal essence be trammeled by the same old worn-out habiliments of error? Once a Greech
Turgenef failed to reach the highest, the height of Tolstoy, because he failed to free himself from that alone which must forever trammel the soul. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy
Why should we be trammelled by the opinions and customs of men? James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports
Oh, for one day, away on the river, in the world of clear waters, green boughs and violet banks—one day away from the world which had trammeled them and fettered them. A Mad Love
She felt that she was trammeled in a net of deception, and, like the freedom-loving American that she was, she resented the toils none the less because their strands remained invisible. Cynthia's Chauffeur
"I have no wish to impose any kind of trammels upon you." Under False Pretences A Novel
Experience will suggest the best course, and would be inexpedient to trammel the subject with provisions that might in the end prevent the adoption of reforms, suggested by actual trial. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War
This veto power was a trammel, and an unnecessary restraint on the freedom of legislation. History of the Constitutions of Iowa
It should rather be his aim to free his mind from such trammels, and to accustom himself to look upon each character as a root-idea, not a definite part of speech. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton"
The theory that there was a hole in this wall somewhere, through which we could get into a freer air and less trammelled conditions, was attractive enough. Aliens
"Dear Aunt Margaret, the only trammels that you impose are those of love!" said Hugo, in his silkiest undertone. Under False Pretences A Novel
If she had planned travel on a world of two decades past she must have found a way of making his and her stay in that past permanent, without trammels. A World Apart
Make yourself acquainted with their circumstances; you may then more judiciously reduce them to trammels. The Academy Keeper Or Variety of useful Directions Concerning the Management of an Academy, The Terms, Diet, Lodging, Recreation, Discipline, and Instruction of Young Gentlemen. With the Proper Methods of addressing Parents and Guardians of all Ranks and Conditions
The new and untried conditions of town life trammeled and constrained her. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories
His genius was not of that sort which breaks out from trammels, but of that which makes the best of what it finds. Spenser
He then set himself to extricate the lead horses from the different parts of the harness that trammeled them, and helped them to get up. Jena or Sedan?
Experience will suggest the best course, and it would be inexpedient to trammel the subject with provisions that might, in the end, prevent the adoption of reforms suggested by actual trial. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital
Off came the shoes and stockings of those boys who had been trammeled by such articles of attire–all except Crow Wing. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga
The old cook was not trammelled by definite recipes and her rules seemed to be "a little of dis," and "a right smart lot of dat." Two Little Women
It is only rarely that he is trammeled with being forced to write contrary to his convictions. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories
I have got too realistic, and I must break the trammels—I mean I would if I could; but the yoke is heavy. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25)
It is the time for which they have always longed—a time of liberation, of emancipation from the trammels of earth and flesh, the end of continuous dying and the beginning of lasting life. The Shepherd Of My Soul
And force, to which he constantly appeals, is rather the economic force of a producer of commodities freed from the trammels which the State and "Society" in general impose, or seem to impose, upon him. Anarchism and Socialism
In each case the percipient power is supposed to be “above consciousness;” i.e. not trammelled by those limitations of object and subject which are the conditions of ordinary consciousness. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion
She loved freedom from all the trammels of court life, and as I have told you, went about Europe with her maid as her companion, travelling in different names. The Sign of Silence
They appear to be breaking out from the trammels of Egyptian and Assyrian styles, which by meeting had engendered life; and Greek art was the child of their union. Needlework As Art
In 1854 he was relieved of the trammels of party, the Whigs having gone to smash. The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President
But he was trammeled beyond all independent action, by the instructions he had received from the proprietaries. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series
But you must remember that ours is a young and a vigorous community––too young, too vigorous, to be cramped and trammelled by obsolete conventions and narrow Old-World rules. Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town
Whether, in this case, political trammels injured his artistic sense, or whether his peculiar artistic tendencies injured his political career, is a question rather for the historian than the critic. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3)
The character of the Renaissance of the sixteenth century, just released from the trammels of Gothic traditions, was somewhat lawless in England, being unchastened by the classical element which entirely controlled the movement in Italy. Needlework As Art
She was beginning her education in the conventions and trammels of civilization. Carmen Ariza
A. No; but they revere them as containing all the parts of that most Excellent Law, by the knowing of which man may break through the trammels of Samsāra. The Buddhist Catechism
Socialism is not going to allow herself to be trammelled by any hard and fast creed or to be p. 212stereotyped into an iron formula.  A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies
Though the historian of the church was not well fitted for the task, being deficient in critical ability and trammeled by tradition, he doubtless used his best judgment. The Canon of the Bible
They broke away from the ancient trammels of customary forms, and replaced law with liberty of thought, and tradition with poetry. Needlework As Art
The spirit of the West has always been synonymous with a larger sense of freedom, a shaking off of prejudice and tradition and the trammels of convention. Carmen Ariza
But English Dissenters, who prize their freedom from clerical trammels, might remember that Autocracy in Russia represents all that is worst in political as well as in religious fields. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879
Why are we to be trammelled with foregone conclusions? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845
Few words the lovers spoke, for when the heart is replete with rapture, there is an eloquence in silence far above the cold trammels of language. Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance.
The touch of sentiment must come in, uplifting what law knocks down, freeing what it trammels, satisfying man's love for freedom by ministering to his sense of beauty. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV
Through the mind of the young girl ran a ceaseless paean of thanksgiving for her timely deliverance from the trammels which she so well knew enshackled these glittering birds of paradise. Carmen Ariza
Mrs. Walden, the while, was stirring the corn meal for a johnny-cake, putting the potatoes in the ashes, placing the Dutch oven on the coals, hanging the pots and kettles on the hooks and trammels. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance
In spite of the trammels of words, it gives expression to the same subtle and ethereal conceptions which inspired the genius of Liszt as a musical artist. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
We opine that Pope, being trammelled with a copy, and consequently his imagination cramped, displays every attribute of poetic genius fully equal, if not superior, to that of the beau ideal of the Grecian Muse. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Women recognizing the disparity between their achievements and their labors, will no doubt agree that they have been trammeled by their political subordination. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV
How wonderful in one day to shake free of everything, to leave behind all trammels! Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists
There was something like the trammels of an unwilling respect over his manner to Choate; yet still he managed to be rallying. The Prisoner
We sought freedom, light, absolution from the trammels of personality, and we are told that the dead appear in bodies and clothes, that they toil and fret, that they inhabit houses and cities. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war
Thus freed, to begin with, from the trammels of habit and prejudice, there was little in the way of fish, flesh, or fowl which Frank Buckland did not sooner or later try, with various results. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885
In this immensity it seemed so much more easy to speak of love—for love could fill the plain and find room for its own immensity in this vastness which knows no trammels. A Bride of the Plains
Give them a life that is totally free from the petty trammels and slavish conventionalities of the old world! Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand
She came to him again, with the same lifting of her mouth as had driven him almost mad with trammelled passion at first. The Rainbow
Explaining away, however dexterously and delicately, is not defending, but at once confessing error, and encumbering yourself with all the trammels of misleading associations. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies
There was no cult of seamanship, no dead wall of prejudice to trammel modern naval developments. The Empire of the East
Immortal himself, immortal also and freed from all the trammels of transmigration are the vast multitudes of men18 who inhabit the boundless regions which he rules. Religion in Japan
The more impassioned mind and vehement passions of Alfieri disdained those trammels by which the French and Italian stages had so long been fettered. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
Still bound to earth, I refused, O God, to fight on thy side, as much afraid to be freed from all bonds as I ought to have feared being trammeled by them. Introduction to the Science of Sociology
"All Europe with amazement saw The soul's high freedom trammeled by no law." William Penn
They may speak of the subjection, the trammel, the “slavery,” and the inferiority to which marriage reduces them, but, after all, “wife” is a word against which they cannot harden their hearts. Hushed Up! A Mystery of London
NATURE, and her laws, and her promptings, and her desires, spurn the trammels of form and custom, and reign triumphant over the hollow mummery of the parson and his pious foolery. Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life
Even our own moon threatens to break loose from the trammels of calculation, and commits "errors" which sap the very foundations of the lunar theory, and suggest the formidable necessity for its complete revision. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
I did not conclude that one should be false to an implied promise with instructions received, but I was impressed with the conviction that it is unwise to trammel a delegation with decisive instructions. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
Society, with its conventions and trammels, and most of all, perhaps, with its taxes, was the only enemy whom they feared, the only one they could never escape. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government
Like Goethe, he afterwards freed himself from all patriotic trammels and prejudices, and aimed at a general European culture. On the Future of our Educational Institutions
It is a land free from the trammels of caste. India, Its Life and Thought
We of the present day, however, are still largely in the trammels of the old, though our goal is the freedom of the new. The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy
Ah! it is in vain, THING, that you thus are making your preparations; in vain that you are setting your trammels! Highways and Byways in Surrey
"Mascola ran across our trammels this morning with a dragnet," the girl explained. El Diablo
What an emancipation from little petty vexatious trammels and annoyances every hour of the day. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
It has been largely the struggle of individual souls from the trammels of one faith into the liberty of the other. India, Its Life and Thought
I fear you may be trammelled a little by the scantiness of local allusions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
Minds naturally weak, or gradually subdued, may and do submit to this artificial bondage,—this unnatural drudgery; but the vigorous and powerful mind, under favourable circumstances, spurns the trammels, and continues to struggle on. A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
I do not presume to say which is best or which is worst; I can only say which is the freest from bigotry, and which is least trammelled by ordinances merely political. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.
Stronger than the trammels of custom and law, is her religion, which teaches that her condition is Heaven-ordained. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
I mean that trilogy of exulting triumph over the trammels of circumstance that Mr Dunn gave us this morning. A Princess in Calico
But you never were bound by those trammels, or any other, except what you call 'duty.' The End of a Coil
We shall by this means, we hope, be able to detect some of those fallacies which have long tended to trammel the exertions, and to prevent the success of the teacher in his interesting labours. A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
Their first impulse, therefore, was simply to get rid of the trammels—the abuses which had grown up from want of a thorough application of the ancient principles in their original purity. The English Utilitarians, Volume I.
She found it hard to command her feeling—bitter to cut the trammels of her love for the child. The Mother
The idiotic opposition which trammelled the commissioner in his province had augmented his Liberalism. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man
Really, I am in admiration of our clear-sightedness and bravery, in breaking loose, in despite of the trammels of conventionality. The End of a Coil
But I have to live my life myself, and will not be trammeled by any conventions of your social world. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies
It is in general character pretty much that of an independent gentleman, with the addition of the sporting element, and a certain freedom from drawing-room trammels. The Toilers of the Field
The sudden flash which disclosed to the eyes of H�bal the whole epic of humanity cannot be reproduced in language trammelled by time and space. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
"Would you trammel the soul with the shackles of the flesh?" The Orchard of Tears
Yet you must be free, And promise to be free; nor let my gift Sway you one jot in trammelling your heart. The Woman Who Dared
I am sure, indeed, that if the Holy Father were to consult his own taste and feelings, he would much rather be free from the trammels of civil government. The Faith of Our Fathers
But why should we be subjected to these eternal trammels of civilisation? Punch or the London Charivari, October 10, 1920
Adam Mansel was a handsome, talented man, whose joyous disposition, and mirthful humour, could scarcely be trammelled down by the severe conventional rules of the Society to which he belonged. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life
Both afford examples of very strange and experienced spirits trammelled by the limitations of imperfect humanity. The Orchard of Tears
Thus trammeled, Kentucky could do little more than, like a tethered bison, butt at the dangers which year in and year out beset her on every side. Burl
No Constitution, it is true, can "trammel up" facts and put power anywhere but where nature puts it. Appearances Being Notes of Travel
The father had evidently shaken off the trammels of domestic life, and "gone for his holiday" into the grove, where his encounters with the pewees kept up a little excitement for him. Little Brothers of the Air
He differs from his Hindu neighbour by a growing freedom from the trammels of caste. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ
“Oh! to shake off those trammels, were indeed a boon to be desired!” exclaimed Wagner. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
And so at Kenilworth, standing with the crowd and looking up at the jeweled folk in fine array casting their jokes and gibes down at the trammel, he had laughed, too, as honest as any. A Warwickshire Lad The Story of the Boyhood of William Shakespeare
Any authority external to it will only be an obstacle, only a trammel on the organic labor which must be accomplished, and beside that a source of discord and hatred. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature
However, for his well-known coupling, which employs an inversion of the elliptical trammel mechanism, I have found no evidence of a patent. Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt
There the Spirit of Holiness was set free from the veil of the flesh, the trammels that hindered it, and obtained power to enter and dwell in man. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy
A great personality is more than what he says, and many times brushes aside the trammels of the popular conception of the institution which he represents. Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati
She was a lady who avowed herself fortunate in having escaped all those trammels which hinder people from following their own bent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
We are here, apart from our ordinary circumstances and avocations, free from all the trammels and demands of society, alone with nature and ourselves. The Associate Hermits
In a state of savagery he would have carried her off in his arms; surrounded as he was by the 54 trammels of civilization, he contented himself with imagining her in that position. The Pools of Silence
He was entirely at home, and not a person be trammelled by any ordinary considerations. The Old Helmet, Volume II
Go alone; not with your father, or with anyone who will trammel your tongue; and go among a class of people who do not expect you, and will be surprised and pleased, and helped, perhaps. The Chautauqua Girls At Home
Is there a boy breathing who has not pictured himself, free as a bird on the wing, shaking off the trammels of home in this fashion? The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys
Another fruitful source of wealth in this bay is fish, and whilst the vessels were at anchor, drag-nets, trammels, and lines captured enough mullet, gudgeon, and roaches to feed the whole crew. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
He has left his schoolmasters far behind him, but we must not wonder if he still walks in their trammels; his genius will soon free itself entirely, and fly towards heaven with its own wings.... Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities
Late life and soul of exalted circle, he was hide-bound by few of the conventional trammels that distinguished the older type of peer to which the Colonies had been accustomed. Stingaree
Sylvia, however, had the good sense to realize that she was listening to a man whose finer instincts had never been trammeled by conventions which might be wholesome in an academy for young ladies. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley
Shall I, to the end of my days, remain in her trammels? Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
She feels like one dazed in the trammels of opium. When the Birds Begin to Sing
When thrown alone amid harsh and adverse destinies, and amid the trammels and corruptions of society, without energy to resist, or will to act, or strength to endure, the end must needs be desolation. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical
He rose and walked to the edge of the veranda, and stretched himself as if to shake off some trammel of thought. A Tar-Heel Baron
It may be said then, that Christians in America are not trammeled in their efforts to do good by any governmental restrictions, or ecclesiastical establishment. Thoughts on Missions
His spirit writhed like a fine flame, trammelled and tortured by the grossness of the stuff it kindled, and the more it writhed the more he piled on the paragraphs and columns. The Creators A Comedy
And the great orb in the east rises from out the trammels of the mist, and from awakening Earth and Sea comes the great love-call, the triumphant call of Day. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
The principal trammel which now rests upon the movements of vessels destined to cripple an enemy's commerce—the necessity to renew the motive power, coal, at frequent brief intervals—did not then exist. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1
He is quicker in his movement, less trammelled in his judgment Though he may lose wisdom in sharpening his wit, the change he undergoes is unmistakable. American Sketches 1908
He, however, outgrew with his boyhood all trammels of sect. Looking Backward 2000-1887
If the present system of civil government cannot stand of itself, why should the people of Scotland, escaped from the trammels of tyranny, pledge themselves to support it? The Ordinance of Covenanting
Emancipation from the coat and hat is synonymous with leisure, enjoyment, and freedom from the formal trammels of public and civic life. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
I once heard a lady who had playfully competed with men in a jumping match gravely attribute her defeat to the trammeling of her skirt. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
The spoken word threw off the trammels of an uneasy restraint at the very outset. American Sketches 1908
Kicking off the suit that trammelled me, I put it and the helmet back inside and closed the port-hole. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner
And of what avail is it to attempt, within the limits of a drama, and under the trammels of verse, what can be much better done in the freedom and amplitude of prose? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845
These unrecognized proprietors prospered more rapidly than those who were trammeled by engagements with non-resident authorities. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)
Cursing my own insane and selfish passion, which alone trammelled me, which alone ruined one, better and brighter fifty fold than I!—alas! alas! The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1
With qualities less shining he would have escaped the trammels of Court favouritism, and its stains. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography
It was certainly the most powerful of single agents in effecting the liberation of girlhood from its unnatural trammels. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
Her face, lifted up to his, was swimming in tears, her golden hair escaping from its trammels fell in a glowing mass down her shoulders. "Unto Caesar"
In the prose romances, which are epics emancipated from the trammels of verse, there was more vitality. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
It not only trammels up evil possibilities, and prevents them from falling upon men's heads, but it introduces all good. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
He is a good man, a most excellent fellow in every way; but he has one fault—he allows himself to be too much trammelled by routine. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
From the beginning, a strict democracy existed, and all enjoyed ample exemption from the trammels of arbitrary power. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
How thoroughly it shows the idleness and folly of attempting to limit, or trammel, or hamper discussion upon the general questions which are presented for our action! A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
Writing for the people, he was not trammelled by the unities of time and place; the medi�val stage arrangements favoured romantic freedom. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
We have liberated the molecules from the bonds which trammel them more or less in a liquid condition; but this change in their state of aggregation does not change their relative powers of absorption. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
If any work of genius appeared, Trojan or Tyrian, it was one to him—his kindred spirit was kindled at once, his admiration and sympathy threw off all trammel. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
Enlarge not to my hunger, or I'm caught In trammels of perverse deliciousness. Endymion A Poetic Romance
The United Provinces were as yet hardly regarded as a great power, and were trammelled by their contest with England for the empire of the seas. History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683
Binning, spurning at such systematic trammels, took his stand upon the clear testimony of God in the gospel. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
She was hardly more her own mistress than before; Hammerfeldt, screened behind me, now trammelled her, and she had a statesman to deal with instead of a mother. The King's Mirror
And nowhere are those problems more zealously studied than in America, which has thrown aside the trammels of tradition, and is training its free muscles with intent to grapple the untried possibilities of social life. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother
Scores of the most eminent physicians, who have risen above the trammels of system, have vigorously expressed themselves regarding the utterly unreliable character of the drug system. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891
There was a great black crane across it, with two sets of trammels suspended from it, on which you could hang two kettles at the same time. A Little Girl in Old New York
Look upon us, ye people! we offer you an image of the human race, freed from trammels, and risen into new life from the death of forms. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
How to entangle, trammel up and snare Your soul in mine, and labyrinth you there Like the hid scent in an unbudded rose? Keats: Poems Published in 1820
He now freed himself for a moment from the trammels of diplomacy, and enforced a cessation of the attack on his son-in-law's dominions by a threat of war. History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660
Probably not one in a hundred usual readers, could 'read and translate' the word-stilts with which we have trammelled our poetic feet, except with the aid of patient and repeated communion with his English dictionary. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
These are instantly seized by the laborers and run over an iron floor to the schute, where they are caught in titantic trammels, and overturned into harsh thunder. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
So she said, and I wondered, feeling trammelled and hurt. Look! We Have Come Through!
Start free from all trammels, open new ground away from the regular beaten tracks. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
The constitution developed itself on lay and not on ecclesiastical lines, leaving the pontifices other work to do, and Roman civil law was eventually able to free itself from the trammels of the ius divinum. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
The most correct method of drawing an ellipse is by means of an instrument termed a trammel, which is shown in Figure 83. Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught
Her grief, hitherto held in check by a still lingering hope, now escapes all trammels, and becomes truly agonising. The Death Shot A Story Retold
Now that she was a married woman she would be free from all such childish trammels as being guarded at home and never going anywhere alone. Marcia Schuyler
It is hard to break free from trammels in which we have been held all our lives. Our Little Lady Six Hundred Years Ago
He was the first physician to relieve medicine from the trammels of superstition and the delusions of philosophy. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
He can make conquest of it who has sufficient energy to detach himself from the fatal rubbish that trammels our days. The Simple Life
I need scarcely remind the English lawyer that this expedient suggested itself to our forefathers, and produced those famous Fines and Recoveries which did so much to undo the harshest trammels of the feudal land-law. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
We sat, however, trammeled with the formality of state, and our conversation did not extend beyond kind inquiries and professions of friendship. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
If Alwyn Gaythorne, trammelled and embittered by his father's tyranny, had dashed recklessly down the path that leads to destruction, his father had first driven him to the verge of frenzy. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
"More injury is done by the trammels of the law, than by leaving the judges to their own discretion." The History of Tasmania , Volume II
To-day he will be at the plough; to-morrow a coachman, a collector of accounts, a valet, a sailor, and so on; or he will suddenly renounce social trammels in pursuit of lawless vagabondage. The Philippine Islands
But, in some societies, the trammels in which Property is tied up are much too complicated and stringent to be relaxed in so easy a manner. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
How tedious and ennuyant to me can only be known by those who know me well, and how repugnant these trammels of society and ceremony are to nature. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
I get just such oddities any time I lift my trammel net, but they are thrown away as "trash." From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
Do you care no longer how My heart is trammelled, Evader? New Poems
There is so marked an absence of carving that it seems as if ornamentation would have been weakening and trammelling. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
Mr. Arnold Talbot, of Providence, Rhode Island, has folding trammels, nine feet long, which were found in an old Narragansett chimney heart. Home Life in Colonial Days
The Opposition are not disposed to attack Lord Wellesley, and are of course in trammels on the question, but there are plenty of Orangeists who will not be wanting. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents
We trammelled kings can never go free of policy—ey, my comp�re of England? Chivalry
My anger was all the greater because it was still trammelled by fragments of my reason. The Choice of Life
Marjorie herself has become the feminine embodiment of that urgent life of "getting on," of just "doing," which seeks to trammel, stifle, and kill the spirit and higher intelligence of man. Personality in Literature
Its picture plainly shows the stone ledges within the fireplace, the curved iron lug-pole, and hanging pothooks and trammels. Home Life in Colonial Days
The religion to which they are due will seem perhaps, to certain people, to be broader and less trammeled than our own. Chinese Painters A Critical Study
The strength I gained by working, freed from the trammels of tradition, led me to discover that I had been searching in impossible places for that which I had within myself. My Reminiscences
This was what we were coming to after having emancipated ourselves from the trammels of a dead or effete superstition! Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
No psalm-book, no note of music made by hand, no human thought repressed her or trammelled her exultant wing. St. Cuthbert's
On the pothooks and trammels hung what formed in some households the costliest house-furnishing,—the pots and kettles. Home Life in Colonial Days
His number also had been changed, but we refuse to be trammelled by police regulations. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
There was no lack of entertainment and variety in that town, for people generally seemed to a great extent to have cast off the trammels of social etiquette, both in habits and costume. The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America
Finding his feet slightly trammelled, the grizzly tried to move off, but of course trod on the net, tripped, and rolled over. The Prairie Chief
He would speak to her, as one soul might speak to another, unhampered by all the trammels of outward circumstance. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
If the bed of coals and burning logs were too deep for the skillet or pot-legs, then the utensil must be hung from above by the ever-ready trammel. Home Life in Colonial Days
I was always a queer sort of chap, hating convention and all the trammels of society, and I liked the old man at once. The Making of a Soul
A few journals, however, even in the days before the great changes of the War, placed a jealous guard upon their absolute freedom from trammelling influences and to-day they reap the reward of public confidence. Deep Furrows
For Eaglenose, like his chief, had freed himself from some of the trammels of savage etiquette. The Prairie Chief
Burst the trammels that impede your progress, and cling to hope. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
Except that it is so frequently trammelled in uttering itself frankly on important public questions, it gives an indication of the trend of sentiment and so makes possible a forecast of future public action. Society Its Origin and Development
It was not the cause of virtue, but a desire that vice might be less trammelled, which introduced the reformation in England. Newton Forster The Merchant Service
“Whiffing, long line, trot, and bulter; and we used to go out to the rocks off Falmouth to set small trammels.” Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea
“Like a conger in a trammel,” assented Josh. Menhardoc
Dear aunt, don't attempt my young feelings to trammel. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I
If your eyes were but opened, how gladly would you cast off the trammels of an effete society, and follow me to a land where a man can breathe freely. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
He has none, but must submit to the wishes of his people, and trammelled by custom, must take to his bed one whom he cannot take to his heart.” Newton Forster The Merchant Service
She had travelled two thousand sea-sick miles to find herself an unwelcome guest, imprisoned within the four square walls of a nook-less Nook; bound fast in the trammels of old-world conventions. Flaming June
At the age of eighteen, he had broken loose from the trammels of Argyle's control, and joined the standard of the Marquis of Montrose. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
He is always the child—whatever wise old worlds he contemplates—the child, wistful, poignant, trammeled, of New England. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
It was rather a longing for personal independence, for freedom from the trammels of a society in which he had little faith or interest. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII
We know not how much of an effort, in view of the circumstances by which she was trammeled, she could make to maintain the dignity of woman. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
I will live a bright artiste-life, free from the trammels and the Lilliputian considerations of domestic life. The Home
For France was abundant in resources, and even at this moment was far from unprosperous, in spite of the incredible trammels of law and custom. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre
But he considered that the divine essence was present in all human beings, and apparently that those who freed themselves from sin and the trammels of worldly desires would ultimately be absorbed into the godhead. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
But she is a bold, independent thinker, and spurns the trammels of bigotry and prescription. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
This Spirit of Individuality, this desire to throw off all trammels, and to live in the atmosphere of one's own personality, exhibits itself in a marked degree in the literature of our day. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
Let no young girl regard this watch-care as a trammel placed on her coveted liberty. Etiquette
It is the trammels of discipline such as this that breaks the hearts of the stalwarts in our service, and racks the national war-chest to the bottom. On the Heels of De Wet
The Chilians are an active, intelligent, wide-awake people; are great fighters and free from the religious trammels of Peru. Ranching, Sport and Travel
She was determined that her sisters' lives should not be trammeled by her weakness. Girls and Women
Even at this moment the trammels of her ancestry were on her; she made no answer. White Ashes
He was at times restive under the trammels of parliamentary rule, and would speak his mind, no matter who was troubled thereby. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
They knew the independence and self-relying spirit of Mr. Adams, his restiveness in the trammels of party, his disposition to lead rather than follow; and yielded silently to a result which they could not prevent. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.
He wanted to be in wildness with her, inexorably divided from all the trammels of civilization. The Call of the Blood
His oratory was marked by the entire absence of trammels, of rhetoric gesture or even grammar. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
It is 24�16 feet in area, having an ample fireplace, with its hooks and trammels, and a spacious oven by its side. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings
For the first time released from the trammels of her class, O'Mino could attend the theatres and farce shows of the capital. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
In more modern times, good men, whom we might suppose to be free from the trammels of superstition, have to some extent directed their course in life according to the interpretation of their dreams. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
Working, therefore, upon the given data, he could enjoy a considerable amount of freedom, and throw his whole energy into the task of forcible expression without feeling himself trammelled at every step. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series
For all his radicalism, he was too trammeled by the classical concepts, the traditional musical schemes and patterns to quite realize the symphony based on an extra-musical scheme. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
I agreed with President Hayes in the matter of a reform in the civil service and in his desire to free the Executive power from the trammel of senatorial dictation. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
Or is the tendency rather to trammel and divert them by so much laborious and irrelevant interference? Heart and Soul by Maveric Post
Blakely smiled, a contorted and disunited smile, perhaps, and one much trammeled by adhesive plaster. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier
I gradually discovered the contrary, and introduced modified methods, but did not entirely break away from the old trammels. The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
The young people, however, rapidly shake off such trammels, and in the endeavor to be like Americans urge their parents to move away from this "foreign" district. Aliens or Americans?
Across the fireplace hung an iron crane, which swung on a hinge or pivot, from which hung a large number of what were called pothooks and trammels. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
The Undine of olden days, I read, By the love of a soul from her trammels was freed: Knows there another such dolorous need? Primavera Poems by Four Authors
They do not break through the trammels of custom, not so much because these trammels are strong, as because their impulses are weak. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
They were all lawless thoughts of a love not to be trammeled by the obligations of marriage. A Pagan of the Hills
To be educated is to liberate the mind from its trammels and fears—to set it free, new-chiseled from the rock. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists
"Why, I have eaten pies and pickles,—and pot-hooks and trammels I might, for any harm in the matter." Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter
Yet he chose the vehicle of hexameter verse, and trammelled his genius with limitations which Empedocles, four hundred years before, must have found almost intolerable. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series
Our euphuists may pass away like those of the Elizabethan era, or, like the best of them, live in spite of faults with which they were gratuitously trammelled. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878
But already the Plough skirting the amazed opening of his mouth was lost in the trammels of his beard. The Field of Clover
O wreaths too strong, and trammels made of hair! Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia
My grandfather, Hendry Watty, bet four gallons of eggy-hot that he would row out to the Shivering Grounds, all in the dead waste of the night, and haul a trammel there. Wandering Heath
In Lothair he is like an inspired and enfranchised boy, set free from all the trammels of reality, and yet bringing to the service of his theme the results of an extraordinary inherited experience. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
If a man can so write as to be easily understood, and to convey lucidly that which he has to convey without accuracy of grammar, why should he subject himself to unnecessary trammels? Thackeray
From these words arises the doctrine of Political Questions, an escape clause from the trammels of judicial review for high executive officers in the performance of their discretionary duties. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
I took three pairs of soles and a brill in the trammel this very morning; and if you've put a dozen stitches in that old waistcoat, 'tis as much as ever! News from the Duchy
Poor beings! of three score and ten, whose utmost historical span extends only to some thousands of years, have sought to trammel up the terrene vicissitudes of millions of ages anterior to their own existence! An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
How very pleasant it is to be a vagabond, when one may return to starched linen and the trammels of civilization whenever one wishes! Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches
No, we know we have said nothing about stays; we are no friend to them; we dislike them heartily, and we shall never rest until we can release our girls from their trammels. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886
In similar trammels to those which had so long hampered and restricted his own movements it was now possible for him to entangle the goings of his ministers. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
Disapproval was power, and their freedom from the trammels of respect made them cruel. John Ward, Preacher
Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Liberalism and the Social Problem
I have always maintained that half the so-called difficulties of life consist mainly in our dread of other people's opinions; women are especially trammelled by this bondage. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886.
Unfortunately we are but common mortals, and cannot, like Mr. Keely, lightly throw off the trammels of natural law; we must, therefore, endeavor to close this gap by patient study and experiment. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
Here the pools are swept with small meshed trammel nets of all the fish that they contain. Essays in Natural History and Agriculture
Thenceforward the test of true kinship with him could only be a kindred aspiration after union in liberty from merely natural trammels, in order to tend more surely to a supernatural end. Life of Father Hecker
Would it not be better for him to abandon the idea of office trammels, and go among them on the People's Banner? Phineas Finn The Irish Member
He was a strict disciplinarian, but threw aside all the trammels of the traditions of the service. With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent
My soul, which sleep expels from his abode, The body leaves, and, from its trammels free, Seeks her whose mien so often menace show'd. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch
If neither a series of Scotch nets nor a single trammel is to be used, by what sort of net do you propose to catch the Salmon? Essays in Natural History and Agriculture
No amount of philosophy enables one to rise entirely superior to the trammels of early training and hoary association. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin
This is the big task that the school must essay if it would emancipate itself from the trammels of tradition and become a leader in the larger, better way. The Vitalized School
Am I to be fettered, and bound, and trammeled by you forever? Princess
The apologist for Divine goodness has thus an aggravation of his load, and needs to be freed from all unnecessary trammels in the shaping of his creed. Practical Essays
Do you mean to prohibit the trammel, which is usually a treble and not a double net? Essays in Natural History and Agriculture
The strict time, the severe form, and the importance of the accompaniments were not suited to her splendid and luxuriant style, which disdained all trammels and rules. Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag
But Meyerbeer resolutely disenthralled himself from what he appeared to have regarded as trammels, and followed out an ambition to be a cosmopolitan composer. Great Italian and French Composers
We are about to set them free by removing the trammels of the protective tariff. President Wilson's Addresses
Indeed, one readily perceives that he is not free from the trammels of contemporary convention. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
But there is an independent spirit running through his sonatas, and a desire to escape from the trammels of tradition which are quite refreshing. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development
I was at the mercy of an enthusiast who had broken loose from all those conventional trammels which I hold in such respect. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891
Once fairly freed from the trammels of unquestioning belief, Wyclif's mind worked fast in its career of scepticism. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400
And after that many a sorrowful feeling was wrought into trammels and pothooks. Hills of the Shatemuc
I shall be so trammelled, so tempted with all this. May Brooke
I was a vacillating simpleton, and you held me in your trammels. Elster's Folly
I have lived all my life in courts and have not felt trammeled by them, but now—— Monsieur, there is a freedom, yes, and a happiness stirring in me that I have not known. Montlivet
In her ignorance and inexperience anything seemed possible if only she might escape from the trammels of city life, and from the Argus eye of her aunt Susan. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot
I only hope you are not trammelled in any degree by motives of delicacy which would be preposterous under the actual circumstances. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II
But the deeds of the man who is really free have no such trammelling effects, for they are not prompted by desire nor directed to an object. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
"I wish to Heaven she had never seen me!" cried the unfortunate man, beginning to wonder whether he could break through these trammels. Elster's Folly
The full streams feed on flower of rushes, Ripe grasses trammel a travelling foot; The faint fresh flame of the young year flushes From leaf to flower, and flower to fruit. Morocco
The membership of the Executive is expressly defined by the Grondwet; but his Honour is not trammelled by such considerations. The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs
He had already thrown off the trammels of school and shown all the richness of his vigorous originality to which the value of his scores is due. Musical Memories
Perhaps I may go shufflingly at first; for I was never before walked in trammels; yet, I shall drudge and moil at constancy, till I have worn off the hitching in my pace. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06
Life must have been atrociously narrow and trammelled to any free spirit. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas
It seemed the only way to step clear of immeshing trammels. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century
Their minds were shackled with a set of notions concerning propriety, the fitness of things for the world's eye, trammels which always hamper weak people. Mary A Fiction
It was one of the first signs of the breaking away from the conventional trammels of the contrapuntal style of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
You are still confined in the trammels of very narrow-minded moral views. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
A wrought-iron trammel used for hanging a pot from a fireplace crane. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
Had that ride upon Icon set her free from trammels in which she had been hitherto immeshed? The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century
In 'Rigoletto,' although the old convention still survives, the composer shows a keen aspiration after a less trammelled method of expressing himself. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
He was too weak to break the trammels at home, as you did,—let himself be forced to preach what his soul knew was a lie. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
But as it passed westward from the Holy City, it slowly extricated itself out of the spirit and the trammels of Judaism into the self-restraining freedom which Christ gives to His people. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
God! make us serve the monitor within; Cast off the trammels that bow manhood down, Of form or custom, appetite or sin, The care for folly's smile or envy's frown. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy
These enterprising advocates sometimes indulge in flights of rhetoric that scorn the trammels of grammar and dictionary. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
She knows into a trammelled torrent, Is changed her life's free flowing tide; Knows that her hand no oar is holding, With which her drifting bark to guide. Debris Selections from Poems
I was no longer trammelled by the constant efforts to move in other people's grooves. Uncle Max
The man of genius will be restive even in his trammelled paces. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
The Jews found themselves bound hand and foot by ceremonial trammels and weighted down by a burden of innumerable customs. The Haskalah Movement in Russia
Every man who lifts his head above party trammels is a Democrat. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
This settled, feverish with hope, Claude decided to go to all the necessary expenses; as fortune was certain to come in the end, why trammel its advent by unnecessary scruples? His Masterpiece
Our ordinary dreams are, like the dreams of the sensitives, superior to time, space, matter and force—to all the trammels of our waking environment and powers. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3
I had the sense of liberation from the trammels of time and space. Humanly Speaking
The Jews, finally successful in emancipating themselves from the trammels of rabbinism, had transferred their extraordinary devotion from the Talmud to secular studies. The Haskalah Movement in Russia
We have poetry too discursively brilliant for the trammels of verse, eloquence which has drawn its materials from the purest sources, and instructiveness running into sparkling effusions or soaring in aërial fancies. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863
The spires of the three churches were all pointing sternly upward, as if they would mutely direct him aright, but in their shelter one must submit to the prosaic trammels of decency. The Seeker
The coal-mines of British Columbia constitute, of course, a qualification to this statement; but upon them, if need arose, we might hope at least to impose some trammels by action from the land side. The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future
From that day Edred renounced all thought of the monastic life, feeling that such a life would but trammel his conscience and stultify his judgment. The Secret Chamber at Chad
But Seti, as a god upon earth, could of course do no wrong, and did not allow himself to be trammelled by the moral laws that were binding upon ordinary mortals. Ancient Egypt
That's what he've a-done, for the weather lifted while we was hauling trammel—anyways east of south a man could see clear for three mile and more, an' not a vessel in sight there. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
In all situations of life, avoid the trammels of the law. Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
In the penultimate decade of the eighteenth century the trammels were taken off, and a Union was soon found necessary. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union
Methinks they are little like the saintly men of old who fled to the cloister to rid themselves of the trammels of the world. The Secret Chamber at Chad
"I've never been treated so in my life!" she declared, overcome by the self-pity of a struggling soul trammeled by the world's injustice. Success A Novel
By good luck, Billy tells me, the trammel has made a good haul. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
Freed from the trammels which had hitherto impeded their way, all classes put on a new vigor, a new enterprise, and a new intelligence, which brought advancement into every walk of life. A History of English Prose Fiction
The little ties and tapes and conventions, which trammel more or less all but the very simplest lives, fell from her, snapped by the expansion of her love-exalted soul. Pearl of Pearl Island
His mind was struggling to free itself from artificial trammels. The Secret Chamber at Chad
It is in avoiding these trammels that the superior religious instinct of Gotama shows itself. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
Therefore on the morning of the 15th, when Billy, after hauling the trammel, began to lay our plans for the morrow, I cut him short, telling him that to-morrow I should not fish. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756
I was an accomplished flirt, but I was not trammeled by the always dangerous reputation—it was not known. The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors
His mind, eminently philosophic, searched for facts only to establish principles and discover laws; and he was often impatient or obstinate in this search, feeling that it trammelled him in his haste to reach conclusions. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
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