fettered

• A spirit framed   Too proudly special for obedience Too subtly pondering for mastery Born of a goddess with a mortal sire Heir of flesh-fettered, weak divinity Doom-gifted with long resonant consciousness   And perilous heightening of the sentient soul. —  George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
• Queen Ysabeau lolled in her carven chair, considering the comely gentleman who stood before her, fettered, at the point of shameful death. —  Chivalry
• To remove the foul blot which now stains our country to break the chains with which so many of our degraded fellow creatures are fettered, and to qualify them for the station for which a beneficent Creator designed them, are labours requiring the vigorous endeavours of every friend to mankind throughout the world. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
• All the duck-kind waddle; divers and auks walk as if fettered, and stand erect on their tails: these are the compedes of Linnaeus. —  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
• The Popes had not been fettered, habent omnia jura in suo scrinio and their jurisdiction in England had been transferred whole and entire to the King. —  Henry VIII.

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