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

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

Her thoughts seemed to enchain the power of speech.

From The Mynns' Mystery by George Manville Fenn

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

Now, there is disorder in the world, disorder produced by the play of spontaneous forces which no power enchains: how can that be, if everything is the result of fate?

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

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

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 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

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

These are some specimens of the company's many devious instrumentalities for enchaining and plundering its thousands of workers.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus

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

"A novel of purpose as well as an enchaining romance."

From The Black Pearl by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

And all these marvelous changes imparted to love that sweet sadness which is beyond all words poetic and enchaining.

From The Man Between, an International Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr