disburden

Example Sentences

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"Then," said Sandford, "as this must be the last time they are mentioned, I must now take the opportunity to disburden my mind of a charge"— "What charge?" cried Lord Elmwood, morosely interrupting him.

From A Simple Story by Strachey, G. L.

Mr Noalles, as I will still call him, spoke with difficulty, but some secret impulse, it seemed, made him anxious to disburden his mind.

From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Webb, Archibald

But what is thy will, friend, that thou seemest in waiting for me, to disburden thyself of something?

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore

But the need she felt to disburden her mind to Tito urged her to repress the rising anguish.

From Romola by Eliot, George

The profusion of small attractive devices which automatically perform the economic household labor and disburden the human workers must not hide the fact that the chief activities are still little adjusted to the psychophysical conditions.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Münsterberg, Hugo