insnare
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
But it was the young whose acquaintance he chiefly courted; as their minds, ductile and unsettled from their age, were easily insnared by his stratagems.
From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by John Selby Watson
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
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
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
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
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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