One pays for it in bondage of some kind or other.
She smiled her slow, blossoming smile at Perry and thereby reduced him to hopeless bondage.
" Her soul suddenly escaped from the bondage of Aunt Elizabeth's stuffy feather-bed and gloomy canopy and sealed windows.
Then a purely feminine touch was given to the hair that waved back from the face,—a touch that rescued little crests and wavelets from bondage and set them free to take a new color in the sun.
They had boasted their strength loudly when they reclaimed me from love and its bondage, but upon my demanding deeds, not words, some evidence of better comfort, some experience of a relieved life—Freedom excused himself, as for the present impoverished and disabled to assist; and Renovation never spoke; he had died in the night suddenly.
And this tyrant I was to compel into bondage, and make it improvise a theme, on a school estrade, between a Mathilde and a Coralie, under the eye of a Madame Beck, for the pleasure, and to the inspiration of a bourgeois of Labassecour!
" He stood up: in the port of his head, the carriage of his figure, in his beaming eye and mien, there revealed itself a liberty which was more than ease—a mood which was disdain of his past bondage.
"It will probably end in still more bitter bondage for her.
" Bob's tongue was now evidently loosed from its unwonted bondage, and might even be in danger of doing more work than was required of it.
Since yesterday, that inward vision of her which perpetually made part of his consciousness, had been half screened by the image of Philip Wakem, which came across it like a blot; there was some attachment between her and Philip; at least there was an attachment on his side, which made her feel in some bondage.
The passion that held Strickland in bondage was no less tyrannical than love.
You think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbearable kind of bondage.
Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.
I longed to run about and play with the rest, but I was unable to break loose from my bondage.
-----Maugham, Of Human Bondage.
-----Maugham, Of Human Bondage.
With the young of both sexes, Poetry is, like love, a passion; but, for much the greater part of those who have been proud of its power over their minds, a necessity soon arises of breaking the pleasing bondage; or it relaxes of itself; —the thoughts being occupied in domestic cares, or the time engrossed by business.
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air - An armful of white blossoms, A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies, Biting the air with its black beak?
The Silken Tent --Robert Frost She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when a sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent, So that in guys it gently sways at ease , ,, ,, , Sand its supporting central cedar pole, That is its pinnacle to heavenward And signifies the sureness of its soul Seems to owe naught to any single cord, ,, , , , But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on eart
With a quick yank, I pulled it free from its bondage.
