Example Sentences

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Australia will emancipate itself ere long, but these provinces she may and ought to retain.

From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

I hope not—indeed, a few short years will emancipate me from the shackles I now wear, and then perhaps she will govern her passion better than at present.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Theirs will be the dominion of fear, from which reason will emancipate herself, and from which pride will yet more certainly revolt.

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria

In our own good time we will emancipate him and start him on a new life beyond the boundaries of our Republic.

From The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis by Dixon, Thomas

Yes, this is an authority which is not at all divine, wholly human, but before which we shall bow willingly, certain that, far from enslaving them, it will emancipate men.

From God and the State by Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich