free oneself
Example Sentences
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A connection of the heart becomes then a veritable torment, from which it is desirable to free oneself as quickly as possible.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell
From demons, I know, it is scarce possible to free oneself.
From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard)
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
The injunction to free oneself from sense and strive upwards by means of knowledge, remained; but the wings of the thinking mind bore it only to the entrance of the sanctuary.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
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
