free oneself
Example Sentences
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From demons, I know, it is scarce possible to free oneself.
From The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' by H. B. (Henry Bernard) Cotterill
If the perspiration has a disagreeable odor, no effort should be spared to free oneself from what is a serious drawback to the acceptableness of a nurse.
From Making Good on Private Duty by Harriet Camp Lounsbery
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 William Hassell Overton
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 Neil Buchanan
To free oneself by violence without disengaging the firmly implanted talons would result in lacerations such as the thorns of a rosebush will produce.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
