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

Genuinely, tenderly, and with a pervasive charm impossible to describe, the author tells the story of the old love, which returns to the woman’s life after the fetters of a loveless marriage enchain her.

From Dolly's College Experiences by Mabel Cronise Jones

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

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

A weird kind of beauty, too, that enchains us, and transfixes us as that of the deadly beautiful Medusa.

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

With Thomson, now, o'er sylvan scenes we stray, Or seek the lone church-yard, with pensive Gray: On Pope's refin'd, or Dryden's lofty strains, Dwell, while their fire the lightest heart enchains.

From Poetic Sketches by Thomas Gent

They have indulged in a Platonic romance since their childhood; but I will give you the means of breaking the charm which enchains my daughter's spirit.

From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski

Du N. Are words denied the heart Of firmest mould, or what enchains my tongue?

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant

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

‘I am inclined,’ he says, ‘to write a good deal; for there can be nothing so remembrancing and enchaining as a good long letter, be it composed of what it may.’

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin

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

From Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

But the supple and treacherous city knew the secret of enchaining the will.

From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan

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

The past is, by its ruthless critics, conceived not infrequently as enchaining or enslaving.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman