disenthral
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Thee, gentle lady, did he disenthral: Ye shall for ever live and love, for all Thy tears are flowing.–
From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John
Consider, too, how a holiday of action would disenthral the writer from the pettiness of cliques and coteries, with their pedantic atmosphere and false perspectives.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
From Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) by Lincoln, Abraham
She almost thought that she would waltz at Mrs. Jones's ball; perhaps not with Captain De Baron; perhaps not with much energy or with full enjoyment; but still sufficiently to disenthral herself.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony
Or what good end of these?" she said; "Is there no God or end at all, Nor reason with unreason weighed, Nor force to disenthral Weak feet that fall?
From Songs Before Sunrise by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
In Colgan’s time, then, the fairy superstition had passed from the upper classes, gradually disenthralled of it by the influence of Christianity to the common people, among whom it is still rife.
From The Irish Fairy Book by Various
By this it was to be 352 disenthralled from the bondage of sense 553 and raised into the empyrean of pure thought "where truth and reality shine forth."
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
After he had become disenthralled from his allegiance to party, we find him in his letters to Bridge, taking broad views on political subjects.
From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stearns, Frank Preston
By the light of that fire my friend and I left the town; and when far away we could see its glare, and hear the shouts of a disenthralled people.
From Town and Country; or, life at home and abroad, without and within us by Adams, John S. (John Stowell)
Therefore it cannot deeply affect a disenthralled mind.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Clinton must have realized that, in a different sense and a different era, America faces the task of disenthralling itself, of shaking off the Hollywood stardust and facing facts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every humane consideration clusters to the policy of disenthralling the colored man, and of making him a being of power.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 by Various
It is said that he procured a solemn exorcism to be performed, in the hope of disenthralling and recovering his daughter.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
This was not only much more convenient than the old dress, but the change exerted a great influence in disenthralling the minds of the men from the influence of old ideas and associations.
From Peter the Great by Abbott, Jacob
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