insnare
Americanverb (used with object)
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"My enemy maun sen' for an ootlandish speech and a heathen tongue to insnare ane o' the brethren!"
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
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 Samuel Kirkham
Nay, it is more apt to insnare because of the profession.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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
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
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 Émile Gaboriau
Equally incompetent were such little ones to comprehend the nature of that devil who existed in the conception of the magistrate when he asked whether the devil had insnared the witness and brother Andrew.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam
Confederacy with the Canaanites and other nations was forbidden on this ground, “that the people be not insnared, and learn not their works.”
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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
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
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
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
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
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