I always end up in this kind of thralldom to my characters. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Carol Shields] Reference
My heart feels the thralldom of love's mystic spell. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain idylls, and Other Poems] Reference
On a more esoteric level, thralldom can be a state of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The chains that bind us] Reference
In the darkest days of thralldom the dominant powers relied upon the. From Wordnik.com. [Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro] Reference
All day Nan moped in unhappy expectation of her anticipated thralldom. From Wordnik.com. [The Governess] Reference
I thank you for those words; they release me from a painful thralldom. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Years later, he described "a state of thralldom ... experiencing tremors day and night.". From Wordnik.com. ['The Pop Revolution'] Reference
Though "the fight" is not yet over, my emancipation from the terrible thralldom is measurably complete. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
This strange thralldom to a morbid prompting not unfrequently has its outlet in crimes of the deepest dye. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
The evidence went to show in the clearest manner that a system of frightful thralldom had been put in force. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
He didn't know if he was in love-this was foreign to any such state anytime earlier in his life-or in thralldom. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
It only lacks the phrase “smartest woman in the world” to seal the deal for the worst level of thralldom ever. From Wordnik.com. [New York Mag: Obama’s ‘Want Each Other’ Unlike Other Presidents? - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState] Reference
"Certainly; all you who wish to make an effort to escape from the thralldom in which we are held, hold up your hands.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean] Reference
Its release from the thralldom which has fettered it would be a vast world service, would, indeed, be a vast benefit to. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe] Reference
Slavery's thralldom; and as little thought he of the great and painful change, to be brought about in his own circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West] Reference
In a few seconds the stage was filled, not with dummies = but with human beings, bewildered but freed from the thralldom of King =. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaggy Man of Oz]
I about choked, but that would have ruined the effect of Eric's words, so I looked down at my chest as if I was embarrassed by my thralldom. From Wordnik.com. [All Together Dead]
Conversely, they can ponder with you what is not even contemplated by District residents because of their thralldom to the Congressional veto. From Wordnik.com. [Egypt uprising should inspire D.C. voting rights activists, Nader says] Reference
The solution, he realized, was not to bend the Arab oil regimes to America's will but to end America's thralldom to them by wasting less energy. From Wordnik.com. [So you want to save the planet? What should you consider first?] Reference
But it has this among its several features; the thralldom to which it subjects its victim has nothing outside itself to which it may be compared. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
There are those people on the left who think that they may come under some Conservative thralldom and people on the right who don't like foreigners. From Wordnik.com. [Britain in 1971] Reference
They will seek to spread lawless barbarism and terror to our civilization and we will bring law and order and justice to their lands of barbarism and thralldom. From Wordnik.com. [Carnival Of Liberty XXIII] Reference
And so began the second period of Gouverneur Prime's thralldom. From Wordnik.com. [Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters] Reference
But some they saved for thralldom, yea, e'en of the fighting men. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolfings] Reference
Only once did he emerge from the thralldom of the tale by his own will. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference
See the habits in falling to sleep which have children in their thralldom. From Wordnik.com. [The Children] Reference
The thralldom of natural living is, in contrast, set in a pace humiliating. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
Not only must she be emancipated, but she must be emancipated from her present thralldom. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
He is named as one of the many who helped to deliver mankind from the thralldom of scholasticism. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities] Reference
Yet ill would the bargain be to buy life with thralldom: we have been over-merry hitherto for that. From Wordnik.com. [The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale] Reference
There is nothing in nature free from change, and the gods of nature fell under the thralldom of nature's laws. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference
The time is not far distant, let us hope and pray, when agriculture will cast off the thralldom of the ages and assert her own. From Wordnik.com. [The Stewardship of the Soil Baccalaureate Address] Reference
Emphasis is, to a large degree, a matter of position, but position cannot emancipate any clause from the thralldom of subordination. From Wordnik.com. [English: Composition and Literature] Reference
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