tramelled

Without fail, they all tramelled a line between the simply squalid and the utterly inexplicable/pointless.

Natural Boring Killers juliette 2009

It would look queerly, I thought, for a young man like me to be tramelled with a crazy girl.

Darkness and Daylight Mary Jane Holmes 1866

Catholocism, which for centuries had fettered and tramelled its upward progress and whose baneful effects still rested upon unhappy

"Have Men of Action Been More Beneficial to the World Than Men of Thought?" Debate Speech of Hamilton C. Jones, Jr., for the Dialectic Society, June 2, 1857 1857

Because I know darker villainy plotted against you, yet to come; villainy from which, tramelled by this oath, no earthly power can save you.

The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832

They make a tinkling with their feet, having, as some think, chains, or little bells, upon their shoes, that made a noise: they go as if they were fettered (so some read it), like a horse tramelled, that he may learn to pace.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Private sector employers will generally find a market level, where they are not tramelled by binding agreements brokered with the state.

Irish Blogs 2009

“As I saw I had not the liberty either to refuse the wine, or wave the toast, I per force complied. — “Gramercy,” exclaimed the chieftain, “I espy hopes in thee, notwithstanding thou appearest to be somewhat tramelled by early prejudice; but thy education shall be improved, if we find thee not stupid and incorrigible. —

Magdalen; or, the Penitent of Godstow 1812