free oneself

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To free oneself by violence without disengaging the firmly implanted talons would result in lacerations such as the thorns of a rosebush will produce.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

Vain are great efforts to free oneself from this fatal environment, from the heritage of fear, from the circle in which we are forced to move, until at last comes death.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances

Now, when a thought has become an obsession, there is practically only one way to free oneself from it, and that is by speech.

From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Moore, Leslie

If the perspiration has a disagreeable odor, no effort should be spared to free oneself from what is a serious drawback to the acceptableness of a nurse.

From Making Good on Private Duty by Lounsbery, Harriet Camp

The very first thing in playing in public is to free oneself of all distrust in one's own powers.

From Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers by Martens, Frederick Herman