inthral
Americanverb (used with object)
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Every lovely face, On which I gaze, A phantom seems to me, That vainly strives to copy thee, Of all the graces that our souls inthral, Sole fount, divine original!
From The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Frederick Townsend
But thou thy freedom did recall, That if thou might elsewhere inthral; And then how could I but disdain A captive's captive to remain?
From Tudor and Stuart Love Songs by John Potter Briscoe
Who would trust His fame to what fleet ruin must inthral?
From Vacation Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
Near the entrance he came upon the Rosetta Stone, and stood inthralled.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson
They who had once beheld its splendor were inthralled with an unutterable yearning to possess it.
From The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I see the great hall full of people, attentive—more than attentive—every moment more inthralled.
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
At the desk stood the lecturer and read his manuscript, and all but the boys sat silent and inthralled by the musical spell.
From From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 by George William Curtis
He should never see again the dark southern loveliness that had so inthralled his imagination; and the idea was maddening to him.
From Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey
It is not impossible that you may regard as very nice people or even as quite fascinating and inthralling people, certain people whom I regard as intensely disagreeable.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various
Cupid," Venus went a-calling, "Is a rosy little youth, But his beauty is inthralling.
From Second Book of Verse by Eugene Field
It was all a strange, unusual, inthralling romance to them.
From Wayside Courtships by Hamlin Garland
Such tempting suspense, such strange discoveries, such wild fancies, such inthralling terrors, all belonged to that life.
From The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins
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