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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Bound (Adjective)

Bound,
Like doomsday prisoned underground.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Fast bound and free,
As all the world is girdled with the sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fast bound as a frost-bound water.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Bound as the sun to the world’s wheel.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Bound
Like as thralls with links of iron fast in bonds of doom.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne