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

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

In the cold one of her adopted parents lay no charm which should be able to enchain her destiny; but a mother's every silent wish must become a blessing.

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

Genuinely, tenderly, and with a pervasive charm impossible to describe, the author tells the story of the old love, which returns to the woman’s life after the fetters of a loveless marriage enchain her.

From Dolly's College Experiences by Mabel Cronise Jones

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

His eloquence enchains every heart; in burning words, he assails every soul.

From May Brooke by Anna Hanson Dorsey

It enchains him for life; I have seen it in too many cases—I am not mistaken.

From Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day by Robert J. C. Stead

A weird kind of beauty, too, that enchains us, and transfixes us as that of the deadly beautiful Medusa.

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

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

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

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

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

From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance

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

If he could but get rid of his present standard of what is right and good in thought and language, and preach them with the enchaining fire with which he preached them once!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various