trammelling

To wrest from off thy limbs the trammelling chain:

Collected Poems 2003

Fidelis loosed his hold, and launched himself after it, clear of the tree, diving beneath the trammelling branches.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

Fidelis loosed his hold, and launched himself after it, clear of the tree, diving beneath the trammelling branches.

An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985

She usually declined trammelling herself with annual subscriptions to charities, preferring to keep her freedom from year to year, and to achieve definite objects by liberal bounty, rather than to extend partial help over a large surface which she could not herself superintend.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

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 Hopkins Moorhouse

When mass feeling, mass-morality, becomes too oppressive, poets are wont to escape from its trammelling conventions at any cost.

The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Elizabeth Atkins

Thus, this Vision of Piers Plowman indicates the existence of a popular spirit which had been slowly but steadily increasing -- which sympathized with Henry II. and the priest-trammelling "Constitutions of Clarendon," even while it was ready to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas à Becket, the illustrious victim of the quarrel between Henry and his clergy.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

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 Elise Whitlock Rose

In doing this they discovered the need and efficacy of knowledge for the conduct of human life, individual and collective; and found in knowledge no mere means to living but a new and heightened form of life itself, lifted above the trammelling conditions, the disillusionments and disappointments of the merely practical life.

The Unity of Civilization Various

There is something so foolish in these trammelling bonds.

The Lessons of Naval History 1934