trammel

They are a little exuberant at having broken the trammels of custom.

Although Trammels appeared on county maps, population statistics were never recorded.

What on earth do you mean by trammels?

"It's always nice to provide the brackets where the trammels can be hooked on later," Pilgrim had said one day.

The thousand trammels of my captivity on Earth I have here shed.

At last, as the silence continued, I shattered the trammels that paralysed me, and sprang forward.

Hooks engaged in trammels; the ship jerked, hung free, was carried out on the field.

No earthly trammels now our thoughts may chain; For childhood's fancy hath come back again!

Conscience freed from intellectual trammels began to revolt against the oppression exercised by the Roman clergy.

As of 2008 what was Trammels is now in the city limits of Missouri City.

Fatherless, motherless in very early life, she had soon enough shaken herself free from any trammels that well-meaning relations desired to put over her actions.

Among other things, the groups argued that the records demand trammels on the WikiLeakers' constitutional right to free speech and association.

The remaining areas of Trammels became a part of the DeWalt community.

Friendship he feigned with cunning argument, urging him to his former thought of flight from the trammels of the Valar.

Slipped from the trammels of the world, surrounded by a bubble of noise and cloven slippery air, mundane reality fallen away, they were as eagles.

As Ward croaked the words his voice seemed almost to burst free of its trammels and sink to cavernous abysses of uncanny resonance.

Equally important, he notes that within these two countries industrialisation proceeded within a context relatively free from the 'trammels of a precapitalist past'.

I missed the refreshing and luxurious sense, induced by the night-gown, of being undressed, emancipated, set free from restraints and trammels.

Trammel or Trammels may refer to:

I had not been educated in episcopal trammels, and liked a more liberal behaviour; yet he was a great man, and I believe an honest man."

I have got too realistic, and I must break the trammels - I mean I would if I could; but the yoke is heavy.

I had become a bounden slave in the trammels of opium, and my labors and my orders had taken a coloring from my dreams.

Trammels or trammel points are the sockets or cursors that, together with the beam, make up a beam compass.

Liberated from the trammels of traditional culture and belief, Paul confidently expects instant attainment of the sublime happiness that is the natural state of free human beings.

Increasing warfare required a hard, strong government that could trammel people's rights in order to protect the people.

God himself refuses to trammel man's free agency even though its exercise sometimes teaches painful lessons.

With the momentum that it was gathering down the slope, this improvised juggernaut could not fail to trammel anything along its path!

In a ruling on Friday, he concluded that the plan "did not unnecessarily trammel the rights of whites" and did not violate their constitutional rights.

The pilot at least passes over the kind of bureaucratic infighting and interagency feuds that trammel reality and enliven the best thrillers.

He kicks at her, but the shorts trammel him; he fails to land a foot in fur, though unintentionally he flings off one of his sandals.

The focus of his concerns seem to have lain close to tradition, and although what he wrote may be called natural history and social history, such definitions trammel him.

But if a real musician, such as Ellisand, were to play in the southwest, he would trammel up the source of his own inspiration into something sense-dulling and ugly.

He begins: 'My friend, you had horses and deeds of arms ...', and continues to '... a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?'

Even when they spoke, in their off ciaI and disguised capacity, they had to have a glottle in the mouth to trammel the tongue and disguise the speech.

The imploded sculptures trammel well-known territory - David Smith, Ibram Lassaw, Anthony Caro and John Chamberlain - but with noticeable panache.

We couldn't do nothing with her, and if we left her on some door-step, she's sure old enough, and she looks full sharp enough, to tell sufficient to trammel us good and plenty.

APEC has been criticized for promoting free trade agreements that would trammel national and local laws, which regulate and ensure labor rights, environmental protection and safe and affordable access to medicine.

A landscape architect for the roadway construction project, Heather Sporn, said the conservancy expressed concern that pedestrians crossing the highway at 23d Street to get to the water's edge would trammel a pristine lawn.

The Court must also take a hard look to ensure that benign racial preferences are "not so large as to trammel unduly upon the opportunities of others or interfere too harshly with the legitimate expectations of persons in once-preferred groups."

But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?"

"I do not wish to trammel you with instructions; I will state, however, that if Smith holds out, without even an ostensible government to receive orders from or to report to, he and his men are not entitled to the considerations due to an acknowledged belligerent.

If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all -here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.

They fitted together very well in every way, for she was intelligent enough to be undemanding, sensible enough not to trammel him, passionate enough to make bedding her a pleasure, articulate enough to make her an interesting communicant, and industrious enough to give him no additional work.