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

Mrs. Dormer-Smith's interest in the deceased Martin Bransby was too slight to enchain her attention.

From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 by Frances Eleanor Trollope

Scant teguments the mighty Son enchain, Whom thou thyself not wholly dost contain.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

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

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 Louise Vescelius-Sheldon

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

Rousseau enchains passion in its service, as Madame de la Fayette, as even Prévost, had not been able to do before.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury

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

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

Yet Berger's children of enchained emotions project their fancy into a world of living color, an incarnation of their wildest dreams.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

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 Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

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

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

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