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And if that doesn’t ensure the populace is in thrall to the authoritarian narrative, the firemen of the novel burn books, ensuring ideas can’t get into the hands of the people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Graham was, rhetorically, almost pathetically in Trump’s thrall, heaping flattery onto a president who’d once posted Graham’s phone number online for mass harassment.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

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

A football nation is in thrall regardless of their colours.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Alvarez had spent nearly his entire professional career in Lawrence’s thrall, following his orders without question.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

The Night’s Watch takes no part, a voice said, but another replied, Stannis fights for the realm, the ironmen for thralls and plunder.

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

One of their father's thralls came near, bearing a flagon of wine.

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

So thralled, what heart from love shall hope to flee?

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

He sat horribly thralled, so long as he was allowed; he crept afterwards to bed and lay there shuddering.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

This broke the charm which thralled him and sent through his nerves the bracing shock that only a soldier can feel when a hint of coming battle reaches him.

From Alice of Old Vincennes by Maurice Thompson

Through mean and wanton ignorance he swerves,     And worships a false Good, divinely dressed;     Love cannot soar to what it never guessed,     But stoops its flight, and the thralled soul unnerves.

From Sonnets by John Addington Symonds

The Purple Emperor aroma—the Belinda magic—held him thralled.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives

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

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 Zane Grey

In the Firelight My dear wife sits beside the fire   With folded hands and dreaming eyes, Watching the restless flames aspire,   And wrapped in thralling memories.

From Poems by John Hay

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

From Back Home by Eugene Wood

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 Jeffery Farnol