set at large
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Besides, if he quit her to seek company more agreeable, is not she set at large by that act of his?
From Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. by William Cobbett
So all are pardoned, and all set at large.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And thereby for to set at large that Queen whom I did name, Who always in her treacherous mind, doth nought but mischief frame.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
Her father hears how she is bested, and, her innocence being established, causes her to be set at large; but she, being minded to tarry no longer in the world, becomes a nun.
From The Decameron, Volume I by J. M. (James Macmullen) Rigg
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
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