disenthral

Or what good end of these?" she said;    "Is there no God or end at all, Nor reason with unreason weighed,    Nor force to disenthral       Weak feet that fall?

From Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

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

After he had become disenthralled from his allegiance to party, we find him in his letters to Bridge, taking broad views on political subjects.

From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns

Then the disenthralled Orohy began to rejoice as before, through all her streams and falls; and at the sudden leaping of the waters and outbursting of the moon, we awoke.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson

Essences of disenthralled minds meet here and revel.

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

This was the poem which gushed with spontaneosity from my disenthralled mind: Come back, come back, from the buffalo raid!

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

By the light of that fire my friend and I left the town; and when far away we could see its glare, and hear the shouts of a disenthralled people.

From Town and Country; or, life at home and abroad, without and within us by John S. (John Stowell) Adams

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

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

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