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
His imagination could bear them to a giddy hight on its elastic wing, or he could enchain their judgment by the strong links of his logic.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton
Her thoughts seemed to enchain the power of speech.
From The Mynns' Mystery by George Manville Fenn
Still less of a metaphor is it to declare that Macbeth enchains himself anew with every fresh crime.
From Wisdom and Destiny by Alfred Sutro
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
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
Not worse when we have learnt to see so clearly, and most of us acknowledge that It is our will Which thus enchains us to permitted ill!
From Ideala by Sarah Grand
But in these dramas we rarely miss the interest and charm of a dramatic story, which provokes the curiosity and enchains the attention.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
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
But the supple and treacherous city knew the secret of enchaining the will.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
The Labour Statutes proved as ineffective as of old in enchaining labour or reducing its price.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green
A view of ten thousand roofs, inexpressibly enchaining....
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
The disfranchised conscience in a smooth, unresisting world, becomes an enchaining conversation, an all-narrating fable.
From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Friedrich von Hardenberg
"A novel of purpose as well as an enchaining romance."
From The Black Pearl by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
