thraldom

Example Sentences

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You'll be irritated not enraged, and will find its thraldom easy to resist.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2011

But my wrath scorned to offer entreaty or compromise; and, leaving the table, I retreated to my chamber, seeking sullen comfort in the thought that I might soon emancipate myself from thraldom.

From Discipline by Brunton, Mary

Beautiful art, from its side, has thus performed the same service as philosophy: it has purified the spirit from its thraldom.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

You may imagine with what feelings I saw myself emancipated from this thraldom, and free to proclaim 'liberty to the captive, and the opening of prison doors to them that were bound.'

From The Freedmen's Book by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

He could look to no time during the life of his father in which he would be freed from the thraldom.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole