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

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

For I, whom this man somewhat enchains and always did,—when I saw him among the trees, I knew he was very worldly and a trifle fat!

From The Day of His Youth by Alice Brown

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 George Saintsbury

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

Love has Fetters stronger far: By Bolts of Steel are Limbs confin'd, But cruel Love enchains the Mind.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Joseph Addison

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

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 present book is a romance of the sword, full of charming local color, true to life as it is in Japan, and full of deep and enchaining interest.

From Ticknor and Company Book Catalog (1887) by Ticknor and Company

The Russian literature, which is at present enchaining the attention of the civilized world, is a brilliant variation of this theme, an imaginative commentary on this text.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

‘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

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

"A novel of purpose as well as an enchaining romance."

From The Black Pearl by Mrs. Wilson Woodrow