Indeed, I think the duty he owes to his posterity, imperatively calls on him to break the thraldom which is keeping him and his race low and stationary in the scale of being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamie Parker, the Fugitive] Reference

Some notion may be formed of the thraldom of party in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference

Thus had closed the last, eventful Sunday of thraldom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

The wretched thraldom was over, -- and what had it left?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference

A country freed from thraldom, or a soldier's honored grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Poetry of the South] Reference

Or the thraldom of the people in "the days of auld langsyne?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference

He made one last heroic effort to break his chain of thraldom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny] Reference

To harm the victim who there stood, in helpless thraldom bound?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference

Like birds escaped from thraldom long, the happy, smiling crowd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference

And the thraldom increased as the mind and the experience narrowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

Bonifacians feel their thraldom more perhaps than any other people in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

This leaves a loophole for you to escape from the thraldom of dogmatism.    From Wordnik.com.  [India and the Indians] Reference

But Hadria held that everybody was more or less subject to the thraldom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

But my real thraldom did not begin until I took the Pretty Lady's mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference

Then I got to thinking and moralizing and sitting in judgment on my thraldom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference

These were they which won his love, and secured his heart in a hopeless thraldom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference

Shall one man lead a life of thraldom, because his skin has darkened under a hotter sun?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference

Let them, then, be freed from this thraldom, and Scotland will have no reason to complain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

Political freedom they had, but there was no emancipation from the powerful thraldom of selfishness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference

But now the time has arrived once more when these also desire to emancipate themselves from thraldom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

Agitation in the wilderness was futile; it could not hasten emancipation from the thraldom of Martial Law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

I see no escape from our thraldom, but through soul expanse, and this is produced only through soul liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn] Reference

I left the chapel with a firm resolve to make one more effort to escape from a thraldom that everyday became more irksome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

T.e Manchester W.C.T. Association is also doing a good work among the young, and in rescuing women from the thraldom of drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada] Reference

It is a fearful thraldom to be encompassed with the wild hallucinations begotten through a life of dissipation and debauchery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference

Whips, thumbscrews, and manacles of iron were far less helpful to it than the thraldom of the intellects of its hapless victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

British, and released the blind old emperor, Shah Alim, from the long thraldom in which he had been held by the French and Mahrattas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference

They served to amuse the imprisoned intellect of Christendom in times of ecclesiastical thraldom, when learning knew no other vocation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

He was rebellious that it should be possible to cow other people, and the knowledge of the prevalent thraldom poured deep into young Lloyd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference

If Madeline were dead, of what avail was any effort to break from the olden thraldom -- for this is what had been in the mind of the scheming man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

In fine, strive to relieve yourself from all thraldom, from all natural instincts, affections, and sympathies as from so many fetters upon your liberty, your strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference