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
Her magnificent acting, combined with her superb vocalization, enchain through the entire opera.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
"Marriage is a great institution——" "Nay! 'tis an evil one, contrived out of malice by priests and old maids to enchain a woman who would rather be free to a man who speedily becomes bored."
From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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
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 E. Werner
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
What spell enchains her to this gentle care?
From French Classics by William Cleaver Wilkinson
It enchains him for life; I have seen it in too many cases—I am not mistaken.
From Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day by Robert J. C. Stead
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
The past is, by its ruthless critics, conceived not infrequently as enchaining or enslaving.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman
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
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
Le Loutre made no answer, for now events on the battlefield were enchaining every eye.
From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Princes seven, enchaining hands, Bear the live Head homeward.
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
