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Example sentences for "set free"

  • Everything is a turning and returning and we ourselves are bound upon the wheel, carried down or up and finally to be set free, only by the acceptance of a certain discipline of life.

  • The apparently dumb may speak, the apparently paralyzed rise from their beds, the shell-shocked pull themselves together and those under the bondage of their fears and their pains be set free.

  • There is no evidence against this woman, let her be set free," exclaimed Benoni.

  • At a meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia in 1693 the prevailing opinion was that none should buy except to set free.

  • I am not complaining of the owners of slaves--I do not doubt that the slaves are happier than they could be if set free in this country,' declares an apologist, even in Massachusetts!

  • I do not doubt that masters treat their slaves with kindness, nor that the slaves are happier than they could be if set free in this country.

  • Augustus, who was dining with Pollio that day, was so indignant that he ordered the slave to be set free, and every crystal vase in the house to be broken.

  • Confess, and you shall not only be set free, but rewarded.

  • Set free at last from the dreadful cellar, the baroness came with some trepidation into the enemy's camp; but the only look she saw upon any face was one of sympathy.

  • The oxygen which forms the base of this gas is absorbed by, and enters into, combination with the burning body, while the caloric and light are set free.

  • Till the ransom was paid not one soul could be set free, and therefore the hymn says, ‘Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy blood.

  • Is it unjust that such persons should never be set free?

  • But they love the old sins, and the old ways, and the old habits, and they have no wish to be set free.

  • But when the redemption takes place, as predicted in this verse, the body itself will be set free.

  • To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.

  • Defn: To take from, or set free from, a cart; to unload.

  • To set free, to release from confinement, imprisonment, or bondage; to liberate; to emancipate.

  • If set free it immediately attacks the containing material, so that it was not isolated until 1886.

  • At the extremity of one galvanic wire, placed into a drop of water, oxygen is always liberated; and at the end of the other, necessary to complete the circuit with the battery, hydrogen is set free.

  • Now, if this pint of water is connected with the wires of a galvanic battery, although their extremities may be some inches apart, for every atom of oxygen liberated at one pole, an atom of hydrogen is set free at the other.

  • By the compression of atmospheric air this may be shown, and with a small condensing syringe a sufficient quantity of heat may be set free to fire the Boletus igniarius, which, impregnated with nitre, is known as amadou.

  • By friction, two pieces of ice may be made to melt each other; and could we, by mechanical pressure, force water into a solid state, an immense quantity of heat would be set free.

  • In diluting, the acid must always be poured into the water slowly and with stirring, not water into the acid, since, as H2O is lighter than H2SO4, heat enough may be set free at the surface of contact to cause an explosion.

  • In the outer flame the temperature is high enough to burn entirely the gaseous compounds of C and H together, so that no solid C is set free, and hence no light is given except the faint blue.

  • The H, having nothing to unite with, is set free as a gas, and collected over water.

  • There is not enough O here for complete combustion; at this temperature H burns before C, and the latter is set free.

  • It is an earth, whose oxygen has converted itself with a portion of its carbon into acid and been set free; a salt halved upon the basic side.

  • Just because it is the first sense, through which the animal is set free, so must that which is liberated be at once perceived in the moment of liberation, and thus in immediate contact.

  • The members or limbs are the members of the trunk, or ribs that have opened in front; they are the thorax that has opened in front; and hence are nothing new, but only something emancipated or set free.

  • I came here to-night to give myself up to justice so that she might be set free.

  • I congratulated him on knowing what his crime had been, and told him that he would be set free in a week, and would be requested to spend six months in the Bressian.

  • On being informed that I should be set free on the feast-day of my patron saint, and thinking that my informant ought to know for certain what he told me, I felt glad to have a patron-saint.

  • The gas which is set free in coal mines contains a good deal of nitrogen, some carbonic anhydride, and a large quantity of marsh gas.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    destroy slavery; existent being; her lips were parted; horizontal plane; made about; other languages; say the; set aside; set fire; set free; set him; set himself; set his; set the; sets forth; setting apart; setting aside; setting fire; setting forth; settle down; settled himself; settled right; settlement work; settling down; thine heart; will love