set at large
Example Sentences
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The profe of all these I do reserue, as I haue often saide, to a conuenient boke, wherein they shall be all set at large.
From The Path-Way to Knowledg Containing the First Principles of Geometrie by Record, Robert
Once more, O Trent! along thy pebbly marge ��A pensive invalid, reduced and pale, From the close sick-room newly set at large, ��Woos to his wan worn cheek the pleasant gale.
From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by White, Henry Kirk
It is commonly three o'clock when I am thus set at large.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Burney, Fanny
So all are pardoned, and all set at large.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
And no sooner is the vixen set at large than—presto!—away she goes, bag and baggage, out of the country, and not a man in England has seen hide nor hair of her since.
From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.
