inthral
Americanverb (used with object)
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Who would trust His fame to what fleet ruin must inthral?
From Vacation Verse by W. M. MacKeracher
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
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
This indifference of hers was but an additional charm for those whom her beauty had at once inthralled.
From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Ren? de Pont-Jest
And are men and women so inthralled by the molasses of sentimentalism in life?
From Unicorns by James Huneker
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
"Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt; Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm, Shall in the happy trial prove most glory."
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
With the opening spring, when the forests are budding into leaf, and the prairies gemmed with flowers; when a warm, faint haze rests upon the landscape,—then heart and senses are inthralled with luxurious beauty.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
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
It was all a strange, unusual, inthralling romance to them.
From Wayside Courtships by Hamlin Garland
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
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