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Example sentences for "bondage"

Lexicographically close words:
bonanza; bonas; bonbon; bonbons; bond; bonde; bonded; bonders; bondes; bondholder
  1. Out of the soul-bondage of a system of superstition and ignorance will come a new human consciousness of the worthiness of life and the high privilege of living.

  2. Men like San Martin and Bolivar deserve high honor for their work in breaking the bondage that held all life helpless.

  3. Yet Moses has never been called either a murderer or a cruel wretch for this act; and the bondage of the Israelites was light as a feather compared to the tyranny under which the people of France had groaned for ages.

  4. They protested that they were acting for the public good of the realm, pretending that they were freeing the Queen from the bondage and misery into which she had been reduced by the King's behaviour.

  5. Earl, chief author of the murther, to relieve others causelessly calumniated thereof, to put the Queen to freedom, forth of the bondage of that tyrant.

  6. In his "Bondage of the Will," he severely criticises the book.

  7. When their countrymen were in bondage they consoled them with the promise that God would liberate them.

  8. Mercenary art itself rises from the dust; and the bondage of the bodily, at its magic touch, falls off from the inanimate and animate.

  9. Anaximenes writing to Pythagoras, saith, "With what sense can I amuse my selfe in the secrets of the Starres, having continually death or bondage before mine eyes?

  10. They did not dare expect less than the revengeful hate of the beings they had laid the yoke of bondage upon; and verily they found themselves with "fears within, and fightings without.

  11. A great war for the emancipation of the colonies from the political bondage into which the British Parliament fain would precipitate them did not depreciate the market value of human flesh.

  12. The press and pulpit had contemplated this state of affairs until they, too, were the willing abettors in the most cruel system of bondage that history has recorded.

  13. Individual Negroes were held in bondage in Rhode Island from the time of the formation of the colonial government there, in May, 1647, down to the close of the eighteenth century.

  14. He was literally between two conditions, bondage and freedom.

  15. When they began to feel the British lion clutching at the throat of their own liberties, the bondage of the Negro stared them in the face.

  16. If left with her, the moment Kirsty appeared again, the child would fling from her whatever might be in her hand, and flee as to her deliverer from bondage and hard labour.

  17. Puny as it was, that might then begin to grow; it might become aware of the bondage to which it had been subjected, and begin to long for liberty.

  18. I shall tell you, said Morgan le Fay, it signifieth king Arthur and queen Guenever, and a knight that holdeth them both in bondage and servage.

  19. One generation has no right so to dominate over another as to keep it always in childlike bondage to a command for which no reason is given.

  20. If a man is reasonable and sees things as they were, he does not often fix on some particular act for which to blame himself when he deplores the past, for at times of clear vision, the soul escapes from the bondage of incident.

  21. It is perhaps a recognition of the fact that, though we live in time and suffer its conditions, we are immortal also and chafe under too strict a bondage to time.

  22. For if liberty is unaccompanied and unguided by knowledge, its degeneration into licence will be triumphantly used by the lovers of bondage as an argument against liberty itself.

  23. Thus do the Mormon people with their own hands rivet the chains which bind in a fearful bondage their bodies, their minds, and their souls.

  24. And yet this moral bondage is suffered in this land, which is famed for its light and liberty.

  25. If the nation would do these two things, that accursed system of bondage would disappear within the next decade, and the citizens of Utah would "be like the rest of us.

  26. The system of bondage in vogue in Utah can only be successfully maintained by its being isolated.

  27. Now, as that massacre was executed on account of the moral bondage of the Mormons to the priesthood, so also was the dastardly murder of Dr.

  28. If the majority of the people were Gentiles, pecuniarily it would be to the advantage of a man in every way to break loose from his bondage to the Mormon priesthood.

  29. It is not unusual for me to see the other one in New York whenever I am there, still under the bondage of her so-called husband, and for her to tell me that it is no use trying to escape.

  30. It behooves the sons and daughters of the brave men who freed the black slaves to rise in another and holier crusade to free the white slaves from a bondage blacker and more damning than any the world has yet known.

  31. On again beholding my poor shadow after so long a separation, and seeing it degraded to so vile a bondage at the very time that I was so unspeakably in want of it, my heart was ready to burst, and I wept bitterly.

  32. Not only were the Israelites a nation of slaves, according to their own record, but after their entry into Canaan they were six times reduced to bondage in their own land of promise.

  33. He was next commissioned to deliver his brethren from their bondage in Egypt, and was instructed to say that "I Am that I Am" had sent him (Ex.

  34. Then all perceive that he is in truth, as Lohengrin proclaims, the missing Godfrey of Brabant, released from bondage by the power of the Holy Grail.

  35. They sold men into bondage to sin, and presented teachings of human perfection (brass) attainable otherwise than through Christ.

  36. The groaning will not be in vain; for in the same passage the Apostle says the outcome will be that the groaning creation shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into a glorious liberty from sin and every evil thing.

  37. But the work of forming new movements away from papal bondage did not stop there.

  38. For the lower classes also (Tehaphnehes, in Lower Egypt), it shall be a dark day when God breaks the bondage imposed by worldly Christendom.

  39. Come, ye who are in bondage of sect captivity, and learn your way out of the wilderness unto the city that is set upon a hill, which hath foundations, and whose builder and maker is God.

  40. Conscious of their freedom from the bondage in which they had been held and that they had taken their stand on God alone, they were blessed with the Spirit of God upon them and their assemblies in a remarkable manner.

  41. It was a commission to lead Israel out of their bondage in Egypt into the land promised to their fathers.

  42. As to the second article, I think it would be impracticable to return to bondage the class of persons therein contemplated.

  43. George Herr has tasted the sweets of liberty in Christ and he loves to tell those in the terrible bondage of sin that there is an avenue of escape.

  44. George Herr says that the old life, with its bondage in sin and its darkness of evil, is a thing of the eliminated past.

  45. It probably is not generally known that the Negroes, who emerged from the House of Bondage in the 60's of the last century, had themselves given a name to their own peculiar form of verse.

  46. He repeated and sang his comic Folk Rhymes, danced, lived, and came out of the Night of Bondage comparatively strong.

  47. When Israel of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her father's God before her moved, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

  48. He, whose ear is everywhere, Who doth silent sorrow see, Will regard the captive's prayer, Will from bondage set him free.

  49. Let every vile and sinful yoke Of servile bondage and of fear, By mercy, love and truth be broke; And from each eye wipe every tear.

  50. Then answers Love: Hast thou no memory How I to lovers this great guerdon give, Free from all human bondage to endure?

  51. Here was a world born into existence under the certain sentence of death, and groaning in the bondage of corruption, without any hope of being delivered from it, by an immortal birth, "into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

  52. In this quotation, you perceive, that Paul represents the whole creation as groaning in travail pains, and declares that the whole creation shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

  53. Here, then, are six prisoners laboring under the law, and groaning in bondage with no hopes of deliverance.

  54. We left them in bondage under the sentence of the law with no hopes of deliverance.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bondage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.