travelling

Example Sentences

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We resign ourselves to our trammelling globe,—as the gold-fish do,—forgetting.

From Reading the Weather by Longstreth, Thomas Morris

Long years after he bemoaned his ignorance and want of education when he felt all the drawbacks, the trammelling, the holding-down of it, when he realised how it handicapped him in the race of life.

From The Boyhood of Great Inventors by Robertson, A. Fraser

It seemed to him that now at last life had freed him from all trammelling delusions, leaving him only the best thing in its gift—his boy.

From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith

I was not embarrassed by the choice of expedients for trammelling up the visible consequences and for eluding suspicion.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

Hellas! in thine hour of pride,Thy day of might, remember him who diedTo wrest from off thy limbs the trammelling chain:O Salamis! 

From Ballad of Reading Gaol by Wilde, Oscar