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Letter "F" » fetters
«An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.»
Author: Henry Clay
(Statesman)
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«Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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deform, deforms, distorting, distorts, fetter, fettered, fetters, fitting, fittings, harsh, harsher, ill, inevitably, in fetters, look upon
«And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? / Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.»
«But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.»
«(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.) / And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.»
«He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: / Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: / Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.»
«Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.»
«And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.»
«And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; / Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.»
«In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.»
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