had enchained
- past perfect of enchain.
Example Sentences
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That ascetic spirit was paramount, which had enchained the Christian world, that renunciation of secular affairs which explains the peculiar methods by which mediaeval views of life found expression.
From Christianity and Islam by Becker, C.H.
He had long ago ceased to care for la belle brune de Bordeaux, the beautiful girl who had enchained his early affections and thereby become a bar to his boundless ambition.
From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
He was obviously spinning it out, and the profound silence around told how completely he had enchained his hearers.
From Twice Bought by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
Many women he had known, Parisian, Viennese, Russian—and one, Vera Davydov, a musician, had enchained him until he had discovered that it was her violin and not her soul that had sung to him ...
From The Vagrant Duke by Gibbs, George
Not yet had he divined that the deluded Honourable George might go to the unspeakable length of a matrimonial alliance with the woman who had enchained him.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon
