thrall

After decades spent in thrall to Wall Street hedge funders and luxury-housing speculators, what other dreams can a city rich in underdog momentum make real?

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026

The 1960s were in thrall to Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Efforts to make it appear that one of the world’s wickedest men would be in thrall to this milky, recessive nonentity are laughable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Really, I think Luhrmann is praying that in a thousand years, some alien civilization will discover this footage and build a whole religion around the thrall Elvis’ hip thrusts had over a crowd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

She would have married Qarl, and gladly, but she was Lord Baton’s daughter and he was common-born, the grandson of a thrall.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

People have too easily forgotten the eras when deadly, disfiguring diseases held communities in thralls of fear and grief.

From Washington Times ● May 8, 2019

Male thralls likely were involved in cutting trees, building ships, and rowing those vessels for their Viking masters.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 28, 2015

This "Despicable Me" prequel finds the yellow pill-shaped wannabe-supervillain thralls in search of a master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2015

While two thralls lit his braziers, Theon stripped off his travel-stained clothing and dressed to meet his father.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The thralls were pouring ale, and there was music, fiddles and skins and drums.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

But these things were that life of the great North-west whose unspeakable lure thralled men's souls to the death, and he was content.

From The Maid of the Whispering Hills by Roe, Vingie E. (Vingie Eve)

Still the sense of unreality held me thralled and my brain refused me service.

From The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Rohmer, Sax

A girl thralled by the mystery of conception awakes at morn in palpitations, seeing visions.

From Modern Painting by Moore, George (George Augustus)

They dead, I live; I thralled, they are free.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various

Rachel.—The wonderful accuracy of the death-scene in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" has been the object of universal praise in London, not merely from the thrilled and thralled public, but from men of art and science.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various

How a tamed lion learns to survive in the wilderness is told in an en thralling adventure film based on the bestseller by Joy Adamson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slowly she drew near, thralling me as it were with the wonder of her look that I had neither power nor will to move or speak.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Farnol, Jeffery

Miraculously, over-night, the shabby wall had blossomed into thralling splendor.

From Back Home by Wood, Eugene

Yet more than tropic's soft abundance thralling, My stormy North-land wilderness is calling!

From Russian Lyrics by Bianchi, Martha Dickinson

In waking and sleeping hours Madeline Hammond could not release herself from the thralling memory of that tragedy.

From Light of the Western Stars by Grey, Zane