O that God would arise and break the yoke of oppression!

But they chafed under it, and watched for a chance to break the yoke.

They were trying only to break the yoke of a crushing trade embargo imposed on them for invading China.

So they emancipate themselves, break the yoke of the architect, and take themselves off, each one in its own direction.

At the death of his father, Bayadour, many of the subjugated clans endeavored to break the yoke of the boy prince.

When the war broke out, Richard girded on his knapsack and went to help Uncle Sam humble Richmond and break the yoke.

Those unfortunates are quite incapable of breaking the yoke of dependency.

Has he broken the yoke of superstition and priest-craft?

She has bent the tyrant's rod, she has broken the yoke of slavery, she stands to-day redeemed.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

'Thou hast broken the yoke of wood, but I will make a yoke of iron.

It was he who broke the yoke of the Philistines which Saul had weakened, and slew in fight their gigantic champion.

"We can't live so," he often reminded his confederates; "we must break the yoke."

Like most moral causes, it operates slowly; but it operates surely, and gradually weakens the power and breaks the yoke of profligacy and sin.

"'So will I break the yoke of the king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.'"

19:4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor.