disenthral

She would tell you that North Carolina was a lion in the net, an eagle without his pinions, fixed upon the earth, and gazing at the sun in despair, and she would conjure you to make one generous, one manly effort, to redeem and disenthral her -- to take, at this moment, a firm and noble stand in support of the most sacred rights of humanity -- to silence in your

The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I Charles Lee 1908

Consider, too, how a holiday of action would disenthral the writer from the pettiness of cliques and coteries, with their pedantic atmosphere and false perspectives.

Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

Fostered by the spirit of freedom, which goes before to disenthral the mind from that state of servitude in which its powers had been made to minister to ignorant and wayward ambition, or still more cramping and perverting superstition, it promises to gain an universal ascendancy, and to render all that influence which had been arrayed against it, henceforth subservient only to its triumphs.

The History of Dartmouth College Baxter Perry Smith 1856

If, on the other hand, a band of Christians should attempt to enslave a race of heathen men and to entail slavery upon them, and to keep them in heathenism in the midst of Christianity, the God of heaven would smile upon every effort which the injured might make to disenthral themselves.

Walker's Appeal with a Brief Sketch of His Life Walker, David & Garnet, Henry Highland 1848

We must disenthral ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) Abraham Lincoln 1837

Something, however, may in time be expected from the French, who will get restless in their Algerian limits, and make a bold effort to disenthral themselves, by leaping the bounds of the mysterious Sahara.

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

Hereupon, the word being to disenthral the soul from it, must have the same effect upon it that the sword has upon the body, which is, by penetration and dividing the continuity of the parts; for every wound is properly division, an opening or loosening the compactness and closeness of the thing upon which the impression is made.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

There is a fascination in danger which some persons neither can nor would resist; which seems, as it were, to disenthral them of self; -- as if the mysterious Infinite were actually drawing them on by an invisible power.

Lectures on Art Washington Allston 1811

Christianity, the God of heaven would smile upon every effort which the injured might make to disenthral themselves.

Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America David Walker 1807