insnare
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
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
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 Margaret Fuller
We are soon alongside, and our captain boards her, to examine her 'papers' once again, and to insnare, if possible, our wily enemy.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 by William Chambers
To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Want of prudence, as well as piety, hath brought men into great inconveniencys; but he that is well stored with both, seldom is so insnared.
From Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell
The Misses Pound were also there, conveying in their looks their profound pity for a young man so sadly insnared.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 by Various
They tempted and insnared him; and even I urged him into the path of danger.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
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
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
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
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
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
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