insnare
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- insnarement noun
- insnarer noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander
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