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

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

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

Each French soldier before the enemy repeats the words of Joan of Arc, "You can enchain me, but you cannot enchain the fortunes of France."

From Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War, Volume 2 The Second Twelve Months of War by Raemaekers, Louis

Better than anyone do I know how irresistibly Arno could draw to himself those whom he wished to enchain.

From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

His eloquence enchains every heart; in burning words, he assails every soul.

From May Brooke by Dorsey, Anna Hanson

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 McCabe, James Dabney

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

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 Roby, John

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 Saintsbury, George

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 disfranchised conscience in a smooth, unresisting world, becomes an enchaining conversation, an all-narrating fable.

From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von

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 Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

The Electress, who preceded them, was wholly absorbed in conversation with Count Adam Schwarzenberg, who by his witty, fascinating powers of address succeeded in enchaining her attention.

From The Youth of the Great Elector by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

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

There was comfort in this—and Martley itself, house, gardens, woodlands, the lake, the vistas of the purple wolds of forest country, all contributed to her enchaining.

From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry