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With their bondage, their love of bondage will go.— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Once out of its tin bondage, the little creature seemed too frightened to move, and suddenly curled down under the protecting table-cover, to restore its ruffled fur, with many a piteous mew The girls gathered around to pet and soothe it Keep away, girls.— Cricket at the Seashore
Hundreds who arrived in Van Diemen's Land in bondage, and many who quitted it without leave, became by a few days spoil, masters of from one hundred to a thousand pounds On the 16th December (1851), a series of resolutions were passed by the legislature of South Australia on the motion of Mr. Hall. Thus, three colonies, by a unanimous vote, pronounced the doom of transportation.— The History of Tasmania, Volume I
People imagine that they are free when they are delivered from religious and political tyrants that persecute and oppress them; but their greatest bondage, and the one that makes the others possible, is the hereditary and acquired prejudice, bias, bigotry and ignorance within themselves.— To Infidelity and Back
I would not desire a believer’s soul to be in a better posture here away,(170) than this,—to be looking upon sin indwelling as his bondage, and redemption from it as freedom; to account himself in so far free, as the free Spirit of Christ enters and writes that free law of love and obedience in his heart, and blots out these base characters of the law of sin.— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning

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