thrown off

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. Herbert Spencer

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough. Laurie Halse Anderson

There is no suffering for him who has finished his journey, and abandoned grief, who has freed him self on all sides, and thrown off all fetters. Annie Besant

I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it. John Stuart Mill

They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me? Madeleine Stowe

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