During the early 1840s, Smith unfolded a theology of family relations called the "New and Everlasting Covenant" that superseded all earthly bonds.

Some 63 years later, one of his countrymen, Maj. Yuri A. Gagarin, using just such a machine, became the first person to break free of earthly bonds.

It was the calm, comprehending gaze of a soul half loosed from its earthly bonds; it was evident she saw, felt, and appreciated, the difference between the two.

But others would win through, and man, blindly groping, always outward, to break his earthly bonds, at last would be on the pathway to the stars.

If she can't break free from those attachments, she will never be able to be truly free from earthly bonds.

What I'm doing with Julio transcends earthly bonds.

But the death of Amberdrake, as a punishment for murder... that would break at least the earthly bonds of marriage, leaving the way clear for Shalaman.

I see thy place of triumph, whence, released from earthly bonds, thou shah take flight to heaven.

Now he was free of earthly bonds, spirit-walking without physical ailments and limitations, without boundaries.

If not, the puir lamb might ha' slippit her earthly bonds and gone happy to God.