Disencumbers

Our mode of expression disencumbers the argument of an extraneous element of debate, and so far places the sceptical cavil of Hume simply beside the question. ❋ 1823-1886 (1855)

Face to face with infinities, man disencumbers himself. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

Fixing his mind on the Idea of two human beings, a man and a woman who trespass from the law of the great moral powers ordering the Universe (Man along with it) and are overtaken in that trespass and punished, Shakespeare disencumbers it of all that is trivial, irrelevant, non-essential. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

In verse the German disencumbers himself of that gruesome clumsiness which almost always besets him in the art he learnt so late, and never learnt to any perfection. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

But the first time I hinted to him about an investment, he turns on me and disencumbers himself of the following terms and expressions. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

It detects not only in Christianity but in any religion to which it adverts the play of usually obsolete conventions, and it disencumbers every religious claim and representation of its absolute character. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Do you not see how his consciousness rises in elevation, as he clears himself of his humiliating bondage; how his soul finds springs of joy opening in herself, as the good of condition falls off and perishes; how every loss disencumbers him; how every toil, and fasting, and fight, as it clears him more of the notion or thought of happiness, lifts him into a joy as much more ennobled as it is more sovereign? ❋ 1802-1876 (1876)

An assassin disencumbers himself of anything that is likely to impede him, especially when he is going to struggle with a man as young as himself.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

An assassin disencumbers himself of anything that is likely to impede him, especially when he is going to struggle with a man as young as himself. " ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)