Fetter ( page 169 ).
Questions.
1. What are fetters in the primary sense? 2. What are manacles and handcuffs designed to fasten or hold? gyves? 3. What are shackles and what are they intended to fasten or hold? 4. Of what material are all these restraining devices commonly composed? By what general name are they popularly known? 5. What are bonds and of what material composed? 6. Which of these words are used in the metaphorical sense?
Examples.
But first set my poor heart free,
Bound in those icy —— by thee.
Slaves can not breathe in England
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They touch our country, and their —— fall.