Whatever of political restlessness there may be existing among the upper classes of the Tzar's subjects is traceable in its origin to this freeing of the peasantry of the country.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The work of pounding snow from the dogs and freeing the sledges brought to our faces beads of perspiration which rolled off and froze in lines of ice on our furs.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
"First you must shoot me with them," he said, and clung so firmly to my arm, that I saw no possibility of freeing myself from his grasp without using force.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse