Example Sentences

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Whatever the Church owns—she holds it in Free and perpetual alms, unsubject to One earthly sceptre.

From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Time, cruel Time, come and subdue that brow Which conquers all but thee, and thee too stays, As if she were exempt from scythe or bow, From love or years unsubject to decays.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote

An avatar is unsubject to the universal economy; his pure body, visible as a light image, is free from any debt to nature.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa