disburden

Example Sentences

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But now he seemed to think that she ought to be glad thus to disburden her conscience and by just so much to modify her indebtedness to him!

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph

Mr Noalles, as I will still call him, spoke with difficulty, but some secret impulse, it seemed, made him anxious to disburden his mind.

From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Webb, Archibald

His host, however, made haste to disburden himself of a fine speech.

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip

Afterwards you seek to disburden from its portion of the tax, first one article of industry, then another, then a third; always adding to the burden of the mass of society.

From What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader by Bastiat, Frédéric

But it is improper to disburden imagination on such a subject in this place.—E.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert