insnare
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- insnarement noun
- insnarer noun
Example Sentences
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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 Roe, Edward Payson
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 Ward, Nathaniel
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 Chambers, William
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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
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