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And if that doesn’t ensure the populace is in thrall to the authoritarian narrative, the firemen of the novel burn books, ensuring ideas can’t get into the hands of the people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Graham was, rhetorically, almost pathetically in Trump’s thrall, heaping flattery onto a president who’d once posted Graham’s phone number online for mass harassment.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

The 1960s were in thrall to Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Really, I think Luhrmann is praying that in a thousand years, some alien civilization will discover this footage and build a whole religion around the thrall Elvis’ hip thrusts had over a crowd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

“He is no more than a thrall of the Other, the dark god whose name must not be spoken.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

People have too easily forgotten the eras when deadly, disfiguring diseases held communities in thralls of fear and grief.

From Washington Times ● May 8, 2019

Male thralls likely were involved in cutting trees, building ships, and rowing those vessels for their Viking masters.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 28, 2015

This "Despicable Me" prequel finds the yellow pill-shaped wannabe-supervillain thralls in search of a master.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2015

These were the sons of thralls and salt wives.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

One of their father's thralls came near, bearing a flagon of wine.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

His was a high and noble mind, chained and thralled by manifold circumstances and accidents to the dull pursuits of worldly ambitions.

From The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

He sat horribly thralled, so long as he was allowed; he crept afterwards to bed and lay there shuddering.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Right so your selfe were caught in cunning snare Of a deare foe, and thralled to his love; In whose streight bands ye now captived are So firmely, that ye never may remove.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser

So thralled, what heart from love shall hope to flee?

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds

With such resolve as, on this moonlit terrace, Where, freed awhile from earth's disquietude, My thralled heart might here unchain for ever!—

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

How a tamed lion learns to survive in the wilderness is told in an en thralling adventure film based on the bestseller by Joy Adamson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet more than tropic's soft abundance thralling, My stormy North-land wilderness is calling!

From Russian Lyrics by Martha Dickinson Bianchi

Miraculously, over-night, the shabby wall had blossomed into thralling splendor.

From Back Home by Eugene Wood

In waking and sleeping hours Madeline Hammond could not release herself from the thralling memory of that tragedy.

From Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

Slowly she drew near, thralling me as it were with the wonder of her look that I had neither power nor will to move or speak.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol