Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Bound
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
America is as much a black country as a white one. The lives and destinies of the white American are bound up inextricably with those of the black American.
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship – that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.