THRALL in a Sentence

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For THRALL, below is one of 8 sentences:
Tom stood perfectly submissive; and yet Legree could not hide from himself that his power over his bond thrall was somehow gone.

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 Meanings and Examples of THRALL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thrall
 n.  slave; bondman; slavery; bondage
Classic Sentence:
1  Not his ascendancy alone, however, held me in thrall at present.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  Tom stood perfectly submissive; and yet Legree could not hide from himself that his power over his bond thrall was somehow gone.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  But had to follow, leaving Giles to welcome the approaching Manresa, who had him in thrall.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
4  He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping his feet on the bank, instead of which he was hard at work, a thrall to strange witchcraft, full of improving knowledge.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  He is not in thrall to the media.
2  You may recall that for years the chancellor was helplessly in thrall to Prudence.
3  For a long moment all she could do was stare back at him, his dark fathomless eyes holding her in thrall.
4  Her beauty held him in thrall; he never saw such a girl before.