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

Had she not already learnt what it meant to be a good match, and to thus enchain the selfishness and calculations of every man with whom she came in contact?

From Partners A Novel. by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

To-day she appeared, to herself, so intellectually superior, could it be difficult for her to enchain an interesting man?

From Withered Leaves. Vol. II. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall

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

It would do as great things now, if it were divorced from the degrading and tyrannical connection that enchains it.

From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

The willing listen to him from delight, the unwilling and opposite minded because he enchains them.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace

The high altar, where Canova’s beautiful figure of the kneeling Pope always enchains the visitor, was, as usual, surrounded.

From Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting

Where Winter Scythia's waste enchains, And monstrous shapes roar to the ruthless storm, Not Phoebus' smile can cheer the dreadful plains, Or soil accursed with balmy life inform.

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan

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

As though by that monosyllable freed from an enchaining spell, Joan started, moved quickly to his side and held the goblet to his lips.

From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance

But the supple and treacherous city knew the secret of enchaining the will.

From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan

Hence it is that Beethoven broke deliberately several, though not indeed very many, of Bach's more enchaining rules, while Mozart, in his operas at least, had a large amount of Romance worked into his music.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

In it inheres a capacity for expression, and a quality of enchantment in the result, that music had not before exerted—an enchantment that invades the mind by stealth yet holds it with enchaining power.

From Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries by Lawrence Gilman

Le Loutre made no answer, for now events on the battlefield were enchaining every eye.

From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts