disenthral

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

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

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

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

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

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

Step by step I saw my constituents march up to my position, and the district at last completely disenthralled by the ceaseless and faithful administration of anti-slavery truth.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George W. Julian

New wine must not be put in old bottles; nor must the motions of disenthralled passion be confined in vessels worn by the uses of daily life.

From An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times by Fred Newton Scott

Voluminous and ceaseless still, forever swift descend The waters in their headlong course, then turning, heavenward wend: Now, disenthralled, their essence hath its spirit-shape resumed; Bright, bodiless and pure, its fright to yon empyrean plumed!

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark

The waiting Continent has heard it, and already foresees the fulfilled prophecy, when she will sit "redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled by the irresistible Genius of Universal Emancipation."

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

Therefore it cannot deeply affect a disenthralled mind.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

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

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