insnare
Americanverb (used with object)
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Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear, Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
Trade and the streets insnare us, Our bodies are weak and worn, We plot and corrupt each other, And we despoil the unborn.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
Never losing sight of Prosper for a day, Raoul had exhausted every effort of his fertile mind to compromise his honor, to insnare him into some inextricable entanglement.
From File No. 113 by Gaboriau, Émile
Mrs. Arnot did not intend that she should brood over Haldane until her vivid imagination should weave a net out of his misfortunes which might insnare her heart.
From A Knight of the Nineteenth Century by Roe, Edward Payson
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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