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
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
He seated himself on the piano-bench she vacated, and 144 played a few strains absently; there was that in the low, sweet chords among which his fingers strayed that could not but enchain.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
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
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
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 Charles Dudley Warner
I have one of those souls I have described; I see it clearly; but the empire of the senses enchains my will, and I have ever been and ever shall be bad.
From The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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
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
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
Hence its enchaining, ever fresher, and younger charm.
From The Parables of Our Lord by William Arnot
A view of ten thousand roofs, inexpressibly enchaining....
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
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
He can as truly deliver the body from the most persistent and enchaining habit, as he can wholly convert the mind and heart.
From The Wonders of Prayer A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer by D. W. (Daniel Webster) Whittle
