Verb (used with object) : to be enchained by ignorance and superstition. From Dictionary.com.
'enchain' a rational conversation, but nothing could I get out of him but rhapsodies about you in the frightfullest English that I ever heard out of a human head!. From Wordnik.com. [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
For the middle class pleasures where they would enchain you. From Wordnik.com. [The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann] Reference
Throw off the earthly fetters which enchain, thee, O my love, and follow me!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Kirke strives with all her arts and blandishments to enchain him, to keep him. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Yet man can enchain elephants and employ them, according to their own wishes. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Sultana's Dream] Reference
Apt phrases and beautiful figures of speech seize the imagination and enchain the fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
He knew himself to be grave and quiet; there was nothing about him to enchain her to him. From Wordnik.com. [Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance] Reference
"Do you suppose I could ever love a man who had the paltry, ungenerous instinct to enchain me?". From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Ideal more credible than the Actual: to enchain our hearts, to command our hopes, our regrets, our tears, for a mere brain-born. From Wordnik.com. [Novels by Eminent Hands] Reference
It is one of the great difficulties of the dramatist that he must capture and enchain the attention of an audience thus composed. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
There is the actor, haggard, jaded, toiling for hours at a single passage, that he may interpret its meaning and enchain his audience. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Priest's Keepsake] Reference
On account of their want of variety, they do not enchain a listener, but they constitute a delightful part in the woodland melodies of morn. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
Nor is it only the songs of Beddoes that ought to keep his memory alive among us, if his dramas are too long to enchain our fickle attention. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Once it was love; now it had grown to something more, it had become a frenzy; and the more she yielded to its overmastering power, the more did that power enchain her. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
I can enchain the plague in limits, and set a term to the misery it would occasion; courage, forbearance, and watchfulness, are the forces I bring towards this great work. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
Sleep, sermons, and draughts could no longer enchain!. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories] Reference
Whilst hand with hand and arm with arm about their necks enchain. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Whilst hand with hand and arm with arm about their necks enchain. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference
Let us not seek to define it too closely; that were but to enchain it. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom and Destiny] Reference
Crolles, with the wintry sunset behind it, failed to enchain her attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days] Reference
And, anxious to elude her, he pressed on to enchain my aunt Dorothy's attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
"And who," asked Apollonius superbly, "would bail a man whom no one can enchain?". From Wordnik.com. [Imperial Purple] Reference
A sensation of absolute rest and total indifference seemed to enchain all his faculties. From Wordnik.com. [Twice Bought] Reference
Letters can enchain hearts; it was by letters that these two found themselves imperceptibly betrothed. From Wordnik.com. [White Lies] Reference
Her heart desires to enchain man permanently, while she herself is ever subject to the desire for change. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Furs] Reference
He is an orator, -- affluent in diction, graceful in manner, with all the rare and rich gifts which attract and enchain an audience. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
And this was not all; for the memory of the terrified nurse recalls with a secret shudder those mysterious melodies which now enchain her ear. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish] Reference
Ah, with her last glance she would forever enchain that noble and beautiful face -- with her extended arms she would forever retain that majestic form. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of an Empress] Reference
You make a public example of me as a for whom women may have a caprice, but that is all; he cannot enchain them; he fascinates passingly; they fall off. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
'Had an evil genius cast a spell at my birth; or a demon stalked out of chaos, to perplex my understanding, and enchain my will, with delusive prejudices?'. From Wordnik.com. [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
Readers will also find that in its entirety it is a work of absorbing and enduring interest that will enchain the attention more effectually than any novel. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers] Reference
Here are solitudes seldom visited by man, where are treasured sublimities that enchain the mind, and inspire a feeling of devotion in the heart of the beholder. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830] Reference
The drinking of the pure well-water as wine is among the fatal signs of fire in the cup, showing Nature at work rather to enchain the victim than bid her daughter go. From Wordnik.com. [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference
You were glad she had chosen that color because she was going for a walk with him; and green would enchain the eye out on the sere ground and under the stripped trees. From Wordnik.com. [Bride of the Mistletoe] Reference
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