The word "pinioned" in literature often conveys a sense of restriction or confinement, whether applied literally to physical restraint or more metaphorically to emotional or social limitations. For example, Robert Burns uses it to vividly depict a boldly confined eagle soaring despite its restrictions [1], while Victor Hugo questions whether one is not already firmly bound by circumstance [2]. Mark Twain employs the term to critique societal constraints, suggesting that women are confined within predetermined roles [3]. Charles Dickens adapts the term in two ways: in one instance, describing a nervous, constrained demeanor [4], and in another, portraying a ghost’s physical force as he restricts a character’s movement [5]. James Joyce also uses "pinioned" to detail physical restraint in a markedly blunt, almost absurd fashion [6].