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"Unfree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had wrought out or purchased their freedom, but who, although personally free, and at liberty to go where and serve whom they pleased, were not free to attend the legislative assemblies. They were unfree of the Things, and hence their apparently contradictory designation. They, however, enjoyed the protection and civil rights imparted by the laws, and to their class belonged all the cottars on the land paying a rent in work on the farm of the bonder or udaller, ...
— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne
... put aside from him the pure lips of his wife and his little children, like a man unfree, and with his brave face bowed earthward sternly he waited till with such counsel as never mortal gave he might strengthen the hearts of the Fathers, and through his mourning friends go forth, a hero, into exile. Yet well he knew what things were being prepared for him at the hands of ...
— Letters to Dead Authors • Andrew Lang |
Words linked to "Unfree" : serflike, slaveholding, indentured, jailed, restricted, prisonlike, adscripted, captive, bound, imprisoned, adscript, confined, apprenticed, entangled, dependent, at bay, free, nonsovereign, articled, servile, trapped, cornered, treed, freedom, nonautonomous |
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