The most superb, captivating creature that ever ensnared the hearts of the sons of Adam.

And pray, what had she done?" "She had been guilty of attempting to ensnare the affection of my son" began John Heron.

I have been out of Town, so did not meet with your Paper dated September the 28th, wherein you, to my Hearts Desire, expose that cursed Vice of ensnaring poor young Girls, and drawing them from their Friends.

When we are overcome by such soft Insinuations and ensnaring Compliances, we gladly recompense the Artifices that are made use of to blind our Reason, and which triumph over the Weaknesses of our Temper and Inclinations.

At last the King was brought to agree to a plan for ensnaring the great man who so often jeoparded his life and his substance in the defence of his country and religion.

Wise persons do not hunt lions with these contraptions: for it is the nature of a rat-trap, fair cousin, to ensnare not the beast which imperiously desires and takes in daylight, but the tinier and the filthier beast that covets meanly and attacks under the cover of darknessas do you and your seven skulkers!"

Nevertheless, the voice alone had ensnared the connoisseur; it was, by the test of the pipe which he carried on all his quests, D in alt, and would thus complete the major chord of a chime which he had long been building up.

Believe indeed that He is the likeness of God's glory, and the express image of God's person, and you will be safe from the dark dreams with which they ensnare diseased and superstitious consciences.

" "Suppose," said I, "he should resolve to ensnare a poor young creature and ruin her, would you assist him in such wickedness?

She has set out deliberately to ensnare my poor Euty," said the mother, with an incisive drawing in of her expressively thin lips.

Upon which I contrived many ways to ensnare the goats, and see if I could catch them alive, particularly a she-goat with young.

Hence Fenton, in his Epistle to Mr. Lambard: "By long experience, D'Urfey may no doubt Ensnare a gudgeon, or sometimes a trout; Yet Dryden once exclaimed, in partial spite, 'He fish!'because the man attempts to write.

"Had we travelled as became our condition, this brigand would never have ensnared us hither.

At first I frequently ensnared many a sunny hour into working a long design.

With cruel craft those foes surround them, Ensnaring hundreds in a day, Indifferent if they tear and wound them, Proud only of the heaps they slay.

A southern wife, if she is prodigally furnished with dollars to "go shopping," apparently considers it no drawback to her happiness if some brilliant mulatto or quadroon woman ensnares her husband.

Sempronia is a good Lady, who supports herself in an affluent Condition, by contracting Friendship with rich young Widows and Maids of plentiful Fortunes at their own Disposal, and bestowing her Friends upon worthless indigent Fellows; on the other Side, she ensnares inconsiderate and rash Youths of great Estates into the Arms of vitious Women.

It was amazing how unlike was this Di to the Di who had ensnared Bobby Larkin.

You grimacing baby, do you think to ensnare a lion with such a flimsy rat-trap?

Think how he ensnared La Molethink on his numberless victims.

Thirty-six elaborate articles were furnished whereby everyone was instructed how to ensnare his neighbor.

Moreover, she had the sweetest of voices, and every charm of conversation, so that she was likely to ensnare even the most obdurate and elderly man.

These charming ladies just ensnare the big people, make them chatter, and then get together, as they did to-day, and compare the locks of hair they have snipped from their Samsons.

His was the voice to burst forth in the rich melodies of that equivocal piecehe was the gentleman who, if ruined by excess, could become the highwaymanhis was the dashing, manly style to ensnare either a Polly or a Lucy.

Then one day I became righteously mad with anger that the medicine-man should thus ensnare my father's soul.