enchain
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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
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
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
It is the desire of my soul that in the future you may enjoy happier days than those which now enchain you to a fatal union.'
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
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
Joyously they march along, Lights are flashing through the panes, In the streets a busy throng Curiosity enchains.
From The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete by Georg Ebers
A new novel by a new writer, which enchains our attention from the very first sentence of the first page, is a pleasant surprise.
From Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green
With Thomson, now, o'er sylvan scenes we stray, Or seek the lone church-yard, with pensive Gray: On Pope's refin'd, or Dryden's lofty strains, Dwell, while their fire the lightest heart enchains.
From Poetic Sketches by Thomas Gent
Yet enchains she not Others unto the like.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
At a later period of Hellenic civilisation we find Aristotle warning the young men of Athens against "the excess of conjugal tenderness and feminine tyranny which enchains a man to his wife."
From The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
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
The Electress, who preceded them, was wholly absorbed in conversation with Count Adam Schwarzenberg, who by his witty, fascinating powers of address succeeded in enchaining her attention.
From The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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
Before he can give utterance to the first, a cry comes down from the cliff, which arrests the attention of all; soon as understood, enchaining it.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
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
As the dance went on and she grew more and more like an untamed wood-nymph, even the caballeros became vaguely uneasy, hotly as they admired the beautiful wild thing enchaining their gaze.
From The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
