trammels

• Michael Angelo pictures for us freedom from trammels, the freedom that action, thought and ecstasy give, the freedom that is granted to beauty by all who recognise it; Duerer shows us the constancy that bridges the intervals between such free hours, that gives continuity to man's necessarily spasmodic effort. —  Albert Durer
• As a matter of fact, men have never dreamed of wishing to do without the "trammels" of organized society, for the very good reason that those trammels are in reality no trammels at all, but indispensable aids and spurs to the attainment of the highest and most enjoyable things man is capable of. —  Modern American Prose Selections
• Would it not be better for him to abandon the idea of office trammels, and go among them on the People's Banner_? —  Phineas Finn The Irish Member
• But Meyerbeer resolutely disenthralled himself from what he appeared to have regarded as trammels, and followed out an ambition to be a cosmopolitan composer. —  Great Italian and French Composers
• In the penultimate decade of the eighteenth century the trammels were taken off, and a Union was soon found necessary. —  Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union

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