disenthral

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

We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

From Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) by Abraham Lincoln

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

The sword alternately enslaved and disenthralled Thebes and Athens, Sparta, Syracuse, and Corinth.

From The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

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

From the hill-tops and the valleys the cry of a disenthralled people went upward, like the sound of many waters: 'Glory to God!

From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child

Then sprang, as if the night found breath anew, A wind whereby the stars were disenthralled ...

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith

And, Sir, when these states, thus newly disenthralled and emancipated, assume the tone and bear the port of independence, what language and what ideas do we find associated with their newly acquired liberty?

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Daniel Webster

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

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

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