Example Sentences

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We come to Italy: look at the affectations with which the Virtuosi and Filosofi have enchained the free spirit of poetry.

From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by Black, William

This is the case even in the essay on Milton, who would have enchained him to criticism if anyone could.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh

Upon every face horror was now depicted, cheeks were pale, eyes dilated and staring, and fear with all its horrors seemed to have enchained the crowded salle.

From Fitz the Filibuster by Piffard, Harold

In this, your noble-hearted daughter shares my views, and that, too, with an ardour and animation that have enchained my soul irrevocably with her's, spite of every opposing or doubtful circumstance.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

A touch of ‘music for the general heart’ would have enchained him till morning.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various