free oneself
Example Sentences
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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 Frederick Herman Martens
It needs but a moment to free oneself from all one's troubles.
From A Mummer's Tale by Charles E. Roche
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 Harriet Camp Lounsbery
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 Leslie Moore
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 William Hassell Overton
