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

Personality will enchain attention when the most interesting intellectual, moral and spiritual concerns will fail to attract.

From With God in the World A Series of Papers by Brent, Charles H.

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 Jones, Mabel Cronise

To be sure, you have no conception of that burning fiendish passion, which enchains and makes a man powerless--so surrounds him with its bonds, that for its sake he forgets and sacrifices everything.

From Riven Bonds. Vol. I. A Novel, in Two Volumes by Werner, E.

It would do as great things now, if it were divorced from the degrading and tyrannical connection that enchains it.

From Coningsby by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

What is that power which enchains men and women for a season when death itself would be preferable to the bitter sweetness which fills the soul.

From An I.D.B. in South Africa by Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise

There is nothing that so fascinates and enchains the imagination of men as power in another man.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

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 Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

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

In The Golden Bough, Sir James Frazer describes how a tribesman chosen to be king must be enchained and thrashed before his coronation.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

After having been one of the chief authors of reform, he sought to give it stability by enchaining faction.

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by Mignet, M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)

Hence it is that Beethoven broke deliberately several, though not indeed very many, of Bach's more enchaining rules, while Mozart, in his operas at least, had a large amount of Romance worked into his music.

From War Letters of a Public-School Boy by Jones, Henry Paul Mainwaring

Baltic had the gift of enchaining his hearers, and the audience hung upon his speech with breathless attention.

From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus

Notwithstanding, the bright little town ends by enchaining us completely.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa