insnare
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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
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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
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
To smear with birdlime; to catch with birdlime; to insnare.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
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
The old general, we suspect, has been insnared by a pardonable little stratagem on the part of the autograph collector.
From A Book of Autographs by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
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
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