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Example sentences for "thrall"

Lexicographically close words:
thrae; thrain; thral; thraldom; thraldome; thralldom; thralled; thralls; thrang; thrapple
  1. He also knows that Apollo was made thrall to Laomedon, and built the city wall of Troy, but was defrauded of his reward (xxi.

  2. Thomas Haynes Bayly Fairy Song Leigh Hunt Dream Song Richard Middleton Fairy Song John Keats Queen Mab Thomas Hood The Fairies of the Caldon-Low Mary Howitt The Fairies William Allingham The Fairy Thrall Mary C.

  3. If you were thrall to sorrow, And I were page to joy, We'd play for lives and seasons With loving looks and treasons And tears of night and morrow And laughs of maid and boy; If you were thrall to sorrow, And I were page to joy.

  4. Thrall of my darkling day, I vassalage fulfil: Seeking the myrtle and the bay, (They thrive when hearts are chill!

  5. They had feared the conventions, and had been held in thrall by their own carefully nursed ideals of themselves.

  6. Shut their ears to it as they will, they cannot wholly keep out the clamor of those trumpets, but whether in thrall to love or to religion, to custom or to old ideals of self-obliterating duty, they are stirred.

  7. The weight had grown beyond our strength to bear, Thy Love alone the woful thrall can break, Thy Love, reborn into this world of care, Alone can life remake.

  8. That thought of self had held in thrall His soul, and shrunk it mean and small?

  9. The thrall had a house of his own and was rather villein or serf than slave, having rights and a legal price by law.

  10. I shut my eyes, and see no more The hurrying throng of city ways And call to life that dream of yore, And feel the thrall of bygone days.

  11. The slumbering thrall tossed about as if in pain and the earl wakened him, asking of what he had dreamt.

  12. The angry thrall pursued him till he was driven off the estate, Haakon looking on with grim mirth.

  13. Again the thrall fell asleep and again he seemed to dream.

  14. God make up to the haughty, wilful darling in some other way for missing the passing sweetness of the thrall she held her lovers in!

  15. So from that time forward I have lived in this land, and been the thrall of the Lady; and I remember my life here day by day, and no part of it has fallen into the dimness of dreams.

  16. She said: "Yea, that is not ill thought of; but we may not always keep our thrall in mind.

  17. For the moment she felt herself in the thrall of a very real sorrow.

  18. Then is no slave's load heavier than a crown And such a thrall no bondman as a king.

  19. Then Grettir ordered the thrall to search the shore for fuel.

  20. On the way they also slew the thrall Glaum.

  21. The thrall replied that he loathed the life he led; and that it seemed it was not enough to Grettir that he should keep him there as a prisoner, he must also maltreat him.

  22. Grettir and Illugi spent their days in clambering among the rocks, and rifling nests, and the occupation of the thrall was to collect drift timber and keep up the fire in the hut.

  23. Thus I, blindly and recklessly, under the sway and thrall of that terrific and overpowering temptation.

  24. The weather was perfect; the thrall of the sea was upon them.

  25. He was, indeed, thrall to the human voice, especially to the low voice in woman, and he was that best of all critics, a good listener.

  26. The philosopher was said to be more and more under her thrall every day, as I was informed by Mr. Fleisch whom I invited to several of my receptions.

  27. If by the exercise of sympathy and counsel I could regenerate a man of strong individuality and striking natural gifts from the thrall of self-indulgence, a fig for the idle voice of gossip!

  28. Wert thou thrall or free before that day, damsel?

  29. For look to it, that thy war-taken thrall my be mine by the same title.

  30. Hallbjorn went to stay with Otkell, and so did his thrall Malcolm.

  31. No farther than here," says Gunnar, "and my errand hither is to tell thee about that bad mishap, how it arose from the plotting of my wife and that thrall whom I bought from thee.

  32. Otkell often said outright to Hallbjorn, that he thought the thrall did little work; and he told Otkell that there was worse in him yet to come.

  33. Otkell was kind to him, and gave him a knife and belt, and a full suit of clothes, but the thrall turned his hand to any work that Otkell wished.

  34. The thrall was always saying that he should think himself happy if Otkell owned him.

  35. Shall I take upbraiding from thee, runaway thrall as thou art?

  36. That was the end of Earl Hacon, that Kark the thrall cut his throat at Rimul in Gaulardale.

  37. Dejection holds my heart in thrall Till thou art here, my all-in-all.

  38. Laughing under shady lashes, Dusky fringed, like clouds of night, And with sudden rainbow flashes, They can hold your heart in thrall With one sudden radiant glance; They can realize all visions And all dreams of old romance.

  39. He knows not if in heaven or earth he be; Nor from his victory reaps other gain, Than yielding up himself a thrall to her, (He knows not why) who was his prisoner.

  40. Gurth, a mere swineherd, born thrall of Cedric the Saxon, tended pigs in the wood, and did get some parings of the pork.

  41. Thou art the thrall not of Cedric the Saxon, but of thy own brutal appetites, and this scoured dish of liquor.

  42. But no man is, or can henceforth be, the brass- collar thrall of any man; you will have to bind him by other, far nobler and cunninger methods.

  43. Gurth, born thrall of Cedric the Saxon: Liberty a divine thing; but 'liberty to die by starvation' not so divine.

  44. Gurth born thrall of Cedric the Saxon has been greatly pitied by Dryasdust and others.

  45. The thrall in person may be free in soul.

  46. Man is for ever the born thrall of certain men, born master of certain other men, born equal of certain others, let him acknowledge the fact or not.

  47. Sir Tarquin could boast of no mean success;--threescore knights and four, it is said, were held in thrall by this uncourteous chieftain.

  48. Simec was gazing at the speaker with half-closed eyes; the others, in thrall of his words, were staring at the table or at one another.

  49. O thou thrall of the Lord of the Kingdom!

  50. British troops, fighting valiantly, struggled to protect their native land, which they determined should never fall under the thrall of the invader.

  51. At eight o'clock that morning the town of Willow Creek was in the thrall of the circus.

  52. The thrall of the night caught him again.


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