A bear had come up over the ridge; had frightened the horse into breaking its tether and running.

the minister's shault's got lowse frae his tether, an' I'm frichtened he's ta'en the road doun to the auld glebe."

Then Manuel cried, again: "O thou who wanderest amid shadows and over tombs, and dost tether even the strong sea!

And Birds and Flowers once more to greet, My last year's Friends together: My thoughts they all by turns employ; A whispering Leaf is now my joy, And then a Bird will be the toy That doth my fancy tether.

In the twilight dim we have found love's tether, And are linked together, no more to part; While the white stars swing in a maze of glory, To hear the story that bares your heart.

Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea Said, "God has touched him!why should we?" Said an old wife mourning her only son, "Cut the rogue's tether and let him run!"

But we have outrun our tether, and must halt here.

Again, a dead body, among the Australians, is corded up tight, as soon as the breath is out of it, if it is to be buried, or before being exposed on a platform, if that is the custom.[30] Again, in the Highlands second-sight was thus acquired: the would-be seer 'must run a Tedder (tether) of Hair, which bound a corpse to the Bier, about his Middle from end to end,' and then look between his legs till he sees a funeral cross two marches.

Long to slip your gilded tether, And with Leo once more stroll, Heedless of the wind and weather?

Then Julian would suddenly untie his tether and let him fly, and the bold bird would dart through the air like an arrow, One might perceive two spots circle around, unite, and then disappear in the blue heights.