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 Charles H. Brent

No classical belle was poor Norah--only a healthy, comely wench--just such an one as would be likely to enchain a man with no loftier aspirations than Glandore's.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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

From Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

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

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

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

He enchains the attention of his auditors from the first, and they hang upon his utterances with rapt eagerness until the close of the sermon.

From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe

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

But here we must follow the eight sides of the building, dove-tailing, and, so to speak, enchaining the stones, which will be a very difficult thing.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

Was there freedom, was there enchaining, was there even a height rising from higher.

From Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

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

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 Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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