insnare
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- insnarement noun
- insnarer noun
Example Sentences
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Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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 Addison, Joseph
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
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 Gaboriau, Émile
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
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