free oneself
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A connection of the heart becomes then a veritable torment, from which it is desirable to free oneself as quickly as possible.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell
Vain are great efforts to free oneself from this fatal environment, from the heritage of fear, from the circle in which we are forced to move, until at last comes death.
From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances
The injunction to free oneself from sense and strive upwards by means of knowledge, remained; but the wings of the thinking mind bore it only to the entrance of the sanctuary.
From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil
It needs but a moment to free oneself from all one's troubles.
From A Mummer's Tale by Roche, Charles E.
From demons, I know, it is scarce possible to free oneself.
From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard)
