disenthral

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 Anthony Trollope

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 Israel Zangwill

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 Algernon Charles Swinburne

Here he lurked until the brilliant attempt was made to disenthral his country by Mexia, in 1838.

From Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California by Brantz Mayer

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 John Keats

Then the disenthralled Orohy began to rejoice as before, through all her streams and falls; and at the sudden leaping of the waters and outbursting of the moon, we awoke.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

Hail, disenthralled spirit; Thou that the wine-press of the field hast trod: On, blest Immortal, on, through boundless space, And stand with thy Redeemer face to face, And bow before thy God.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832 by Various

But Meyerbeer resolutely disenthralled himself from what he appeared to have regarded as trammels, and followed out an ambition to be a cosmopolitan composer.

From Great Italian and French Composers by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

Could we upon our heavenward way From tempting snares as far remove And be as disenthralled as they, We'd plainer show a guiding love.

From The Mountain Spring and Other Poems by Nannie R. Glass

Essences of disenthralled minds meet here and revel.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

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

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 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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 Jacob Abbott

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