insnare
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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
It stands not with our Queens honour to weare an Apron, much lesse her Husband, in the strings; that were to insnare both him and her self in many unsafeties.
From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward
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 Joseph Addison
To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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 Alexander Pope
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
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
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
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
Shakspeare himself, looking back on this part of his youthful history from his maturest years, breathes forth pathetic counsels against the errors into which his own inexperience had been insnared.
From Biographical Essays by Thomas De Quincey
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
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
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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