insnare
Americanverb (used with object)
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She would make great Advances to insnare Men, but without any manner of Scruple break off when there was no Provocation.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
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
These moments, which ought to be regarded by others with timid respect, are exactly those of which interested cunning makes use, to insnare the unguarded will.
From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
False Orthography.—None ever went sadd from Fingal.—He rejoiced over his sonn.—Clonar lies bleeding on the bedd of death.—Many a trapp is set to insnare the feet of youth.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Kirkham, Samuel
From that moment she found herself irrevocably insnared in a net which tightened day by day more around her, and held her a helpless captive.
From The Clique of Gold by Gaboriau, Émile
They tempted and insnared him; and even I urged him into the path of danger.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Vanity insnared the souls even of his pious parents, for while it led them to wish their son in a better condition, it led them to allow such indulgences as were unfit for his own.
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by More, Hannah
His vigilance had eluded or repelled the open and secret persecution of the emperor; but he was at length insnared by the captivity of his female companion.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Milman, Henry Hart
The old general, we suspect, has been insnared by a pardonable little stratagem on the part of the autograph collector.
From A Book of Autographs by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Many arise from indwelling corruption—many from an insnaring world—many from Satan's malice and devices.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew
Is our Venus to be the frail, insnaring Aphrodite, or the starry, divine Urania?
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
It is constructed of fine-meshed nets hung upon stakes, arranged so as to entrap and detain the fish without insnaring them in the meshes.
From New England Salmon Hatcheries and Salmon Fisheries in the Late 19th Century by Various
The command prohibiting conjunction with them and conversing, &c. is common both to magistrates and people, for the ground of it is common to both—The people's insnaring, helping of the ungodly, &c.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
This parent I here behold inhumanly stripped of the best solace of her declining years by the insnaring machinations of a profligate debauchee.
From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Foster, Hannah Webster
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