untrammelled

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This love was hers -- rich, untrammelled, and so sacred.

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  • I believed that, untrammelled, Byrnes might have been a mighty engine for good, and it was with sorrow I saw him go. —  The Making of an American
  • He continued his own way now untrammelled, and at an agreeable speed which soon brought him to the spring at the road side. —  At Fault
  • [1574 Footnote 1573: New York Tribune_, September 27 Footnote 1574: Curtis declined chiefly from the motive ascribed in Lowell's lines At courts, in senates, who so fit to serve And both invited, but you would not swerve All meaner prizes waiving that you might In civic duty spend your heat and light Unpaid, untrammelled, with a sweet disdain Refusing posts men grovel to attain Lowell's Poems_, Vol. 4, pp. 138-139 His speech, pitched in an exalted key, sparkled with patriotic utterances and eloquent periods, with an occasional keen allusion to Conkling. —  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
  • They were free as air--untrammelled by any conventionality or artificial needs. —  The Sign of the Spider
  • It is in the pastoral lyric where, with tenderest devotion, he pursues, untrammelled, a light and free-born fancy. —  Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock)
 

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