enchained demons strained in anger to gnaw on his bones. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : to be enchained by ignorance and superstition. From Dictionary.com.
His graceful elocution enchained the senses of his hearers. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
Then her lord speaks, enchained by Love the immortal. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
By the powers of Chaos enchained, and the powers of three, I summon you. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
They never knew the Dark Age that held man enchained for a thousand years. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition to Earth]
Next diverse diseases approach him while he is enchained by his previous acts. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
A touch of 'music for the general heart' would have enchained him till morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
First his words and his works drew them, then he himself enchained their hearts. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
The drama proceeded to its close, and held the spectators enchained in the customary manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
John listened, at first, in obedience to her request, but he soon became enchained by the speaker. From Wordnik.com. [Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick] Reference
I do not desire to afflict an enlightened person like thee by keeping him in an enchained condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Nor must we shelter the free man from folly, for then he or she is no longer free, but is enchained. From Wordnik.com. [ANYone who would vote for Sarah Palin is not an American] Reference
Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of enchained authority is condensed. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
So, in a noble library, the visitor is enchained to reverence and courtesy by the genius of the place. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
And keeping women powerless and enchained by religious edicts has kept the whole absurd business going. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Slater: "Morality" is What Right-Wingers Call Misogyny] Reference
“Proceed,” said Madame; but my hand was fettered, my ear enchained, my thoughts were carried off captive. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
His greatest desire is to see you as he saw you now: beautiful and enchained, a fair prisoner, unable to escape. From Wordnik.com. [Orphans of Chaos] Reference
They feared shadows that had come with the All but which were supposed to be enchained irrevocably in other worlds. From Wordnik.com. [Doomstalker]
But Vera's eye, enchained to the spectacle, saw that it was not thin and flexible, but a solid, sharp piece of steel. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
He is stirred to emulate him, but finds himself still enchained by his incontinence and preoccupation with worldly affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
Here I found a young Pangeran (who came from Sambas with Mr. Hupé, a German missionary) enchained in the delights of opium. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
I saw the brow of Idris clouded; I again felt, that we were enchained to the car of fate, over whose coursers we had no control. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
Listen to me, O thou of sweet face, how also a mind of ill-regulated features becomes enchained by ill-regulated or evil thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Let it here be said, that occasionally you look with something like indignation on the volume which enchained you in your boyish days. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
Molly, in the doorway, painfully enchained just then to her stocking - darning, first sighted the trio, and announced in an excited whisper. From Wordnik.com. [Sara, a Princess] Reference
More than four hours was the audience enchained by the matchless eloquence of this remarkable man, which was received with thunders of applause. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
There they lie, completely enchained by indolence … Business tires him; reading fatigues him; the public service interferes with his pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [The trouble with boys] Reference
We were quite tempted to go and hear what the service would be, but the sound of the breakers on the bar enchained us to stop and listen to them. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
There is only one here and there of all the hosts that are enchained and cursed who succeeds in breaking the bonds which bind body, soul and spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
The young man to whom she had made signals did not lose sight of her, and his whole soul seemed enchained to the life presence and breath of this woman. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Wildly there arose a thought of flight; but she was spellbound, her limbs were paralyzed, and the dark, luminous eyes of the horror enchained her own gaze. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
There was something in her appearance, her attitude, her manner, and her voice, which enchained the General's attention, and was nothing less than fascination. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Then something -- a sound sweet as song -- yet without the vibratory passion of a human voice -- seemed to float out of the darkness and hold his ear enchained like a spell. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
There is but one black sheep in the 2nd Life Guards, and that, in the eyes of the coal black colonel (him of the collieries), is the soft, enchanted, and enchained Mr. Heald. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
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