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He had no control of his own powers, and he'd not yet been tested in a confrontation with the man who enslaved him.
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How did he survive fifteen years enslaved in the catacombs by a madman?
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Never considered myself enslaved to my cause.
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You're not treating me like some enslaved woman with no brain.
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The Church of France was isolated from the papacy by the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438) only to be exploited and enslaved by royalty.
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He was an able man, with a special talent for finance, free from all taint of personal corruption, and sincerely solicitous for the honour of Athens, but enslaved to popularity, and without principles of policy.
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The Indians were enslaved, and their welfare was wholly subordinated to.
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They originated in the agglomerations of Turkish stems which in the region north of the Altai reached some degree of culture between the 4th and the 8th centuries, but were subdued and enslaved by the Mongols.
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According to Amari's happy expression, "it was already independent by sea, while still enslaved on land."
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Such a treaty as the one proposed would simply have enslaved the Free State to the Transvaal, and it was rejected by the Free State volksraad.
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The first Spanish adventurers came, not to colonize, but to satisfy as rapidly as possible and by the labour of the enslaved aborigines, their thirst for silver and gold.
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He'd been enslaved the day of the Schism, and Damian would never speak of what happened to their home.
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The people who are so enslaved do not know what they are doing for they have never tasted another life.
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Pensive, he swallowed hard and finally admitted that he didn't want her to be his by obligation, the way he'd been enslaved to past-Deidre.
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Damian had taken his place when betrayal rendered Darian near-dead then enslaved to a madman for thousands of years.
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The Others told me he was enslaved by a Black God.
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As late as the accession of Assur-bani-pal and Samas-sum-yukin we find the Babylonians appealing to their city laws that groups of aliens to the number of twenty at a time were free to enter the city, that foreign women once married to Babylonian husbands could not be enslaved and that not even a dog that entered the city could be put to death untried.
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During their season of ascendancy Pisa was enslaved, and Florence gained the access to the sea.
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After some six weeks' siege the place was stormed, and its exhausted garrison were killed or enslaved.
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Natives enjoying tribal government were not enslaved, but nothing could exceed in ferocity the measures taken to reduce recalcitrant tribes to submission.
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It left Syracuse the one great Hellenic city of Sicily, which, however enslaved at home, was at least independent of the barbarian.
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The extent to which his practice was influenced by this and other a priori conceptions prevents us from classing Sydenham as a pure empiric; but he had the rare merit of never permitting himself to be enslaved even by his own theories.
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She, however, made them her enemies by delivering up the office of justiciary of London and the sheriffwick to her partisan Geoffrey, earl of Essex, and attempting to reduce the citizens to the enslaved condition of the rest of the country.
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In this case "the Synagogue of the Libertines" is the assembly of "the Freedmen" from Rome, descendants of the Jews enslaved by Pompey after his conquest of Judaea 63 B.C. If, however, we take Ac13EpTLvwv Kai Kvprivaiwv Kai AXE avbpLov closely together, the first name must denote the people of some city or district.
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Below the freemen were the slaves, who were war-captives, persons enslaved for punishment, or children sold by their parents.
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Adverse weather drove them to Ireland, where they were enslaved.
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Some scholars suppose them to have been of Achaean race, but they were more probably the aborigines of Laconia who had been enslaved by the Achaeans before the Dorian conquest.
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They were divided into freemen and serfs (Sarmatae Limigantes), the latter of whom had a different manner of life and were probably an older settled population enslaved by nomad masters.
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In the days of a king of Egypt named Timaeus the land was suddenly invaded from the east by men of ignoble race, who conquered it without a struggle, destroyed cities and temples, and slew or enslaved the inhabitants.
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A recently published inscription of Sennacherib (of 694 B.C.) mentions enslaved peoples from Philistia and Tyre, but does not name Judah.
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In 58, however, fresh cause for anxiety appeared, when Nero was enslaved by Poppaea Sabina, a woman of a very different stamp from her predecessor.
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The Italians of the 14th century, more precocious than the other European races, were ripe for this emancipation of enslaved intelligence.
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One of the freest states in the world, they encouraged a despotic misrule in which falsely-called free citizens were enslaved.
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In 1821 it was burned to the ground during a fight between the Turks and the Greeks, and a large number of its Greek population killed or enslaved.
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The Tudor sovereigns had rightfully asserted the principle that in a well-ordered nation only one supreme power can be allowed to exist; but in so doing they had enslaved religion.
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During the 8th century a large band of women, under a certain Vlasta, carried on war against the duke of Bohemia, and enslaved or put to death all men who fell into their hands.
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The visions in her head were dark and brutal, the memories of a man enslaved by the sadistic Black God for thousands of years.
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Darian had spent thousands of years enslaved to the Black God before the Oracle freed him, and Jule couldn't imagine how deeply that experience must have scarred the Grey God's soul.
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He couldn't flush away the dark memories from his time after the Schism when he'd been enslaved by humans intent on using his god-powers, but he could protect her from a similar fate.
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His mate was allegedly no longer dying of a tumor, even if he couldn't figure out what secrets she hid, and his newfound independence left him wary of the Immortal Laws but no longer enslaved by them.
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The Code enslaved me as an everyday Immortal.
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I remember every time she visited to donate more blood to keep me enslaved.
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Neither I nor Tiyan will be enslaved by such evil.
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But he also takes the dominance of Lee - he wields a bullwhip and has his women enslaved by his power.
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But it was only a dream; his passions still enslaved him.
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And then thirdly he says, " not enslaved, nor enslaved to much wine.
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One of the freest states in the world, they encouraged a despotic misrule in which falsely called free citizens were enslaved.
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Haneke chronicles a family enslaved to the structures they have created, operating in a morass of emotional vacuity.
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But later on, to fit what had occurred, the historians provided cunningly devised evidence of the foresight and genius of the generals who, of all the blind tools of history were the most enslaved and involuntary.
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A Christian debt management service may state that it wishes to help consumers with all of their financial worries about money so they have more time to focus on God instead of being enslaved by their debt.
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After the Ancients but still thousands of years ago, the system was taken over by the Goa'uld, a race of evil parasites who enslaved humanity.
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He chooses the red pill and discovers a bleak and barren earth controlled entirely by the machines that rebelled and enslaved humanity.
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Memories of a time spent in a black hell while his mate helped the Black God keep him enslaved.
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Sadly, he realized his old friend truly had died when he became enslaved by the Black God.
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Moya was the prisoner of the Peacekeepers, enslaved to their will until she was freed from their control collar.
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Darian didn't remember it any more than he remembered much of the thousands of years he spend enslaved by Jonny's predecessor.
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He'd love a battle with the god that enslaved him.
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The criminal laws were of extreme severity, even petty theft being punished by the thief being enslaved to the person he had robbed, while to steal a tobacco pouch or twenty ears of corn was death; he who pilfered in the market was then and there beaten to death, and he who insulted Xipe, the god of the goldand silversmiths, by stealing his precious metal, was skinned alive and sacrificed to the offended deity.
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These ships were not provided in time, and the Jews who were thus unable to depart were enslaved, 1 In the north, which had been relatively immune from wars agriculture was more prosperous and the peasants more tenacious of their land; hence the continuance of peasant proprietorship and the rarity of African types between the Douro and the Minho.
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