If we cannot tame the cunning animal that has assaulted humanity, at least we can and will tether him.

I had come to the end of my tether; I could make nothing satisfactory of Induction, at this time.

As a mere fugitive, anonymous and having no more object than to live and avoid recognition, he would soon reach the end of his tether; there was little mercy in the world for men without a home or means.

To all perversion iron limits are, indeed, set; but obscure falsehood works in the largest spaces and with the longest tether.

Now get the knee-tethers on them.

My belief is that they are coming to the end of their tether, and there is still a large shipment of wheat which will be afloat next week.

Our system depends a great deal more on the discretion with which it is worked than the American, where each power in the state goes habitually the full length of its tether: Congress, the State legislatures, Presidents, Governors, all legislating and vetoing, without stint or limit, till pulled up short by a judgment of the Supreme Court.

irrational; nonsensical &c (absurd) 497. foolish &c (imbecile) 499; frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling; finespun^, overrefined^. at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin.

scant &c (small) 32; scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy &c 819; at the end of one's tether; without resources &c 632; in want &c (poor) 804; in debt &c 806.

[Law]; ill wind; head wind &c (opposition) 708; trammel, tether &c (means of restraint) 752; hold back, counterpoise.

Having done this, he left him to graze as far as his tether would permit; and, after supping with Crusoe, lay down to-rest, not a little elated with his success in this first attempt at "creasing" and "breaking" a mustang.

Wherewith would he bind the rafters of his hut to the beams, or tether the cow, or let down the bucket into the well?

As she came out they rose and strained at their tethers.

He accordingly goes to the full length of his tether (in vulgar phrase) and often overshoots the mark.

Le Lemures, loose of tether, Of tendon, sinew, and of bone, Half natures, patched together!

I don't know,' and he seemed, somehow, helpless and desperate, as if he had come to the end of his tether.

In June I shook hands with him as he strained at his tether.

As well thrust in the powers of the Grand Lama to join issue upon, or twist papal bulls into constitutional tether, with which to curb congressional action.

I'm at the end of my tether.

By the time the remainder of the party came to the next navigable river eleven more fever-stricken men had nearly reached the end of their tether.

Mind at the end of its tether.

Mind at the end of its tether.

Some of the anecdotes they relate are not far removed from the Chinese-like talegiven, if my memory is correct, in Herodotusof the Athenian soldier, who went into action with a small grapnel or anchor attached by a chain to his waist, that he might tether himself out to resist the shock of the charging foe.

in the pulpit, called at the store, asking for a rope and pin to tether a young calf in the glebe.

" "Weel a weel," said Robbie, "I keep a'thing in my shop but calf's tether-pins and paper sermons for ministers to read.