insnare
Americanverb (used with object)
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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 Émile Gaboriau
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 James Parton
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 Edward Payson Roe
To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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 Samuel Kirkham
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 Henry Hart Milman
How the old gentleman was drawn to Circus Street; how he was surrounded, insnared, intoxicated, and finally made a husband—all that you know but too well, M. Champcey.
From The Clique of Gold by Émile Gaboriau
The fellow had not a little vanity, and was insnared, his suspicions quieted for the time.
From What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe
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 Hannah More
Of all the objects of compassion that the universe can furnish, there is none more truly affecting, than that of an artless and unsuspecting mind insnared by involuntary guilt.
From Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian by William Godwin
Many arise from indwelling corruption—many from an insnaring world—many from Satan's malice and devices.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
Is our Venus to be the frail, insnaring Aphrodite, or the starry, divine Urania?
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
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 Hannah Webster Foster
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 Hugh Binning
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