Which preposition to use with fettering

of Occurrences 126%

The nearest approach to a mention that we find after that is in the Book of Psalms: "To bind their kings in chains and their nobles in fetters of iron."

on Occurrences 19%

When swords are out and shriek and shout Leave little room for prayer, No fetter on man's arm or heart Hangs half so heavy there.

in Occurrences 18%

" As we watched it was possible to see that the man's arms were tied behind him, while it seemed as if his legs were fettered in some way; yet he was able to take short steps, and in his eagerness to make better speed he fell to the ground again and again, rising only with difficulty.

with Occurrences 17%

"Full low at thy bidding thy negroes may kneel, With the iron of bondage on spirit and heel; Yet know that the Yankee girl sooner would be In fetters with them, than in freedom with thee!" From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.

for Occurrences 15%

Nothing which the present author could write would ever tarnish the reputation of German professors as men of science, but in the narrower limits as historians of the Fatherland and propagandists of the Deutschland-über-alles gospel they are tied with fetters for the like of which we should seek in vain at the universities of Great Britain or America.

to Occurrences 12%

Then I would not be obliged to be fettered to those two horrid boys.

from Occurrences 2%

Rise up, shake the fetters from off thy feet; For the lord of the battle, are fetters meet? Drink as thou wilttill thou be hoar Let Allah judge theeI judge no more.

through Occurrences 2%

That with links of hatred and pride the kings May forge firm fetters through each for all! "May a king wrong them as they wronged their king!

by Occurrences 2%

Theoretically the master might be expected perhaps to expend the minimum possible to keep his slaves in strength, to discard the weaklings and the aged, to drive his gang early and late, to scourge the laggards hourly, to secure the whole with fetters by day and with bolts by night, and to keep them in perpetual terror of his wrath.

as Occurrences 2%

How could she have expected I was to be shackled and fettered as any ordinary cold common mortal?

of Occurrences 1%

The perpetually recurring misapprehension of freedom consists in regarding that term only in its formal, subjective sense, abstracted from its essential objects and aims; thus a constraint put upon impulse, desire, passionpertaining to the particular individual as sucha limitation of caprice and self-will is regarded as a fettering of freedom.

around Occurrences 1%

When Oroonoko recovered his senses, he found himself chained up in a dark room, and all his men were groaning in fetters around him.

like Occurrences 1%

It was only the first night out from Anvik, after an unusually trying day, the Boy was tramping heavily ahead, bent like an old man before the cutting sleet, fettered like a criminal, hands behind back, rope-wound, stiff, straining at the burden of the slow and sullen sled.

out Occurrences 1%

We profess that we choose, we keep our fetters out of sight, we smile, we sing, we contrive to be glad of being alive, and we take great interest in the changing of our jails.

in Occurrences 1%

She had turned upon him swiftly with an outflash of the playful daring which had been one of his major fetterings in time pastthe ecstatic little charm that goes with quick repartee and instant and sympathetic apprehension.

about Occurrences 1%

Here he is a tyrant; he puts out the soul's eyes, and casts fetters about its feet; here he is hard, narrow, materialistic, mechanical,or, in a word, English.

Which preposition to use with  fettering