set at large

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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 Rainolde, Richard

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 Bryant, Edwin

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 Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)

Oh, such times!" he muttered in his beard; "here's this young upstart coming home, and teaches me that such dogs as I put in fetters are better set at large!

From A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by Davis, William Stearns

And no sooner is the vixen set at large than—presto!—away she goes, bag and baggage, out of the country, and not a man in England has seen hide nor hair of her since.

From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.