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
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 Charles H. Brent
Doth not soon some power transcending War's fierce flames in bounds enchain, What will unconsumed remain?
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
He was the most sagacious, most mysterious prince of his age; he had everything that enchains, corrupts, alarms, and attracts the world—arms, riches, glory, genius, religion.
From Holland, v. 1 (of 2) by Helen Zimmern
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
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
Yet enchains she not Others unto the like.
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
At the same time that it unchains princes and breaks for them the ties of the social pact, it enchains the minds and the hands of their oppressed subjects.
From Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense by Anna Knoop
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
A coughing and shuffling of the feet awakened him out of his enchaining dream, as it were.
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
"A novel of purpose as well as an enchaining romance."
From The Black Pearl by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
The question let loose in her heart and mind all that was emotional, at the same time enchaining her to the spot where she stood.
From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner
The Countess of Albany, by enchaining him in the bonds of what he called "worthy love," had saved him from any chance of fresh follies with these alarming "virtuous women."
From The Countess of Albany by Vernon Lee
A view of ten thousand roofs, inexpressibly enchaining....
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
