Was it possible that Lingard was working himself free of the fetters of which he was-Dick wished to think it possible-still unaware?
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Between ten and twenty paces farther he found in the grass the fetters which one of the horses had broken in his escape.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Did I not leave home, where I was tied down by a hundred fetters with the full determination for once, to enjoy life and liberty?
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse