ensnaring

Example Sentences

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Is our Venus to be the frail, insnaring Aphrodite, or the starry, divine Urania?

From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

It is constructed of fine-meshed nets hung upon stakes, arranged so as to entrap and detain the fish without insnaring them in the meshes.

From New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century by Various

This parent I here behold inhumanly stripped of the best solace of her declining years by the insnaring machinations of a profligate debauchee.

From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Foster, Hannah Webster

The command prohibiting conjunction with them and conversing, &c. is common both to magistrates and people, for the ground of it is common to both—The people's insnaring, helping of the ungodly, &c.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Many arise from indwelling corruption—many from an insnaring world—many from Satan's malice and devices.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew