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

He seated himself on the piano-bench she vacated, and 144 played a few strains absently; there was that in the low, sweet chords among which his fingers strayed that could not but enchain.

From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting

Better than anyone do I know how irresistibly Arno could draw to himself those whom he wished to enchain.

From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Rousseau enchains passion in its service, as Madame de la Fayette, as even Prévost, had not been able to do before.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

He was the most sagacious, most mysterious prince of his age; he had everything that enchains, corrupts, alarms, and attracts the world—arms, riches, glory, genius, religion.

From Holland, v. 1 (of 2) by Helen Zimmern

Du N. Are words denied the heart Of firmest mould, or what enchains my tongue?

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant

A voice less austere meanwhile enchains the captive ear of the poet.

From International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850 by Various

The king saw nothing; he heard the bullets hiss past him, the thunder of the cannon around him; but the varied living picture was wanting that enchains the mind with trembling excitement.

From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding

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

The world gained as a result of the Great War a freedom from the menace of organized militarist imperialism without which all peoples sooner or later would have been enchained in bondage and vassalage.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

"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

At the last pair De Lara looks not, the first enchaining his attention.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

Hence its enchaining, ever fresher, and younger charm.

From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot

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

From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan

Princes seven, enchaining hands,   Bear the live Head homeward.

From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various