How To Use enchain In A Sentence
- It is easy to see -- and indeed to admire -- why Africans, snatched from their homeland, enchained in slavery and forced to become Christians, would take their newly imposed religion and turn it into a source of solace and strength. Clay Farris Naff: White Or Black, The Church Has Failed African Americans
- 'enchain' a rational conversation, but nothing could I get out of him but rhapsodies about you in the frightfullest English that I ever heard out of a human head! Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
- His graceful elocution enchained the senses of his hearers. The Last Man
- Yet man can enchain elephants and employ them, according to their own wishes. ' The Sultana's Dream
- But the skin beauty is not the firmest hold she has on Temple's affections; this was not the beauty that had attracted her lover and held him enchained in her service for seven years of waiting and suspense; this was not the only light leading him through dark days of doubt, almost of despair, constant, unwavering in his troth to her. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
- I suggested we descend an intermediate ridge, cut across the western cirque, climb the northwest buttress of Cloud Peak, circle around, and complete the entire enchainment in the reverse direction.
- She had a sweet, low voice, "that most excellent thing in woman;" while her light, silvery laughter rippled forth ever and anon, like a chime of well-tuned bells, enchaining me as would chords of Offenbach's champagne music. She and I, Volume 1
- He used to be enchained by his own self-consciousness.
- enchained demons strained in anger to gnaw on his bones
- It appears to me to be written with wonderful power of enchaining the attention. The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times