enchain

As Johnson wrote, “to enchain syllables, and to lash the wind, are equally the undertakings of pride, unwilling to measure its desires by its strength.”

From Slate ● May 31, 2012

At every approach of horseman, cart, or carriage, I turned fearfully, certain I should see some minister of injustice come to enchain us.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Tie your knots, she sang again and again, enchain! — enchain! — enchain me!

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Few writers of the day have the power of Mr. Marshall to enchain interest and yet to disregard conventional devices.”—Bystander.

From Psyche by Louis Couperus

Personality will enchain attention when the most interesting intellectual, moral and spiritual concerns will fail to attract.

From With God in the World A Series of Papers by Charles H. Brent

There is nothing that so fascinates and enchains the imagination of men as power in another man.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Charles Dudley Warner

For I, whom this man somewhat enchains and always did,—when I saw him among the trees, I knew he was very worldly and a trifle fat!

From The Day of His Youth by Alice Brown

I have one of those souls I have described; I see it clearly; but the empire of the senses enchains my will, and I have ever been and ever shall be bad.

From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The lord of those etherial domains, Once wing-maimed, pitiless fate to the dull earth enchains.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890 by Various

Homer, too, especially in his Odyssey, charms and enchains us with his beautiful descriptions of family felicity and family purity.

From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh

When we first encounter the character, enchained in the dungeon at the opening of Act II, Florestan rises from exhaustion and cries out, “Gott! welch’ Dunkel hier!”

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2017

“With regard to black people, I think they are tired of seeing themselves enchained and downtrodden.”

From New York Times ● May 18, 2016

If my imagination weren't enchained by so much witless tradition and conformity, I might tag this segment to some more majestic and impromptu pattern of my own devising, one that reaches clear across the ecliptic.

From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2012

Yet Berger's children of enchained emotions project their fancy into a world of living color, an incarnation of their wildest dreams.

From Time Magazine Archive

Eisman was enchained, however, by FrontPoint Partners and, by extension, Morgan Stanley.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Baltic had the gift of enchaining his hearers, and the audience hung upon his speech with breathless attention.

From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume

There was comfort in this—and Martley itself, house, gardens, woodlands, the lake, the vistas of the purple wolds of forest country, all contributed to her enchaining.

From Love and Lucy by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Around them he grouped hostile, enchaining circumstances, which they confront fearlessly and, for a time perhaps, master, until the hour comes when they can no longer conquer.

From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne

"Mr. Chillingworth had something to relate to him or to propose, of a nature which, perchance, has had the effect of enchaining all his attention—he called him from the room."

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

A view of ten thousand roofs, inexpressibly enchaining....

From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance