set at large
Example Sentences
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There was no longer any question of keeping Enoch in prison, but there was a real fear that if he were set at large he might reveal his secret.
From In the Valley by Harold Frederic
But that Clare might have been set at large seems not to have occurred to those who in curiosity purchased his portrait.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare
We encamped near the rancho of a friendly Californian—the man who was taken prisoner the other day and set at large.
From What I Saw in California by Edwin Bryant
Rhetorike is like to the hand set at large, wherein euery part and ioint is manifeste, and euery vaine as braunches of trées Rhetorike. sette at scope and libertee.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde
But even the convicted ruffian is to be set at large, under the system of time sentences.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
