That hitherto neglected Book enchained her attention, and she became a most diligent searcher into its hidden truths.

"My attachment is fixed, my election is made, And when hearts are enchained 'tis in vain to upbraid.

Deeply corporealised, and enchained hopelessly in the grovelling fetters of externality, must be the mind, to which, in its better moments, the image of the high-souled, high-intelligenced Quixotethe errant Star of Knighthood, made more tender by eclipsehas never presented itself, divested from the unhallowed accompaniment of a Sancho, or a rabblement at the heels of Rosinante.

I know that she placed on view in her parlor for the first time a crayon portrait of Potts in his early manhood, one made ere life had broken so many of its promises to him, the portrait of one who might conceivably have enchained the fancy of even a superior woman.

Their eyes met and were enchained for a moment, which seemed an eternity; then the blood flew to his face, leaving it the next moment paler than before.

A distant line of undulating blue hills seems to be its boundary, while all the soft intervening landscape lies in a manner enchained in the silver links of the Avon.

This momentous decision inaugurated a millennium in which reason was enchained, thought was enslaved, and knowledge made no progress.

In the period, then, in which the Church exercised its greatest influence, reason was enchained in the prison which Christianity had built around the human mind.

When the individual is distraught by cares or pleasantry, or tortured by the violence of his wishes and desires, the genius in him is enchained and cannot move.

Its existence obviously dates from the time when people used their fists more than their heads, when priestcraft had enchained the human intellect, the much bepraised Middle Age, with its system of chivalry.

One merely accepted it, enchained by that uplifted finger and "Leave it to me!"

Let it here be said, that occasionally you look with something like indignation on the volume which enchained you in your boyish days.

That ascetic spirit was paramount, which had enchained the Christian world, that renunciation of secular affairs which explains the peculiar methods by which mediaeval views of life found expression.

He took me and kissed me impetuously, as though my utterance had broken a spell which enchained him.

She advised me to prosecute my victories, and time would certainly bring me a captive who might deserve the honour of being enchained for ever.

We have the captive, jealous in honour, susceptible and exasperatingly Quixotic, doubly enchained by his word and the charms of his fair wardress; the lady's conspicuous ill-treatment of him at the first, a slight mystery, some escapes and counterplots, and on the appointed page the matrimonial finish that hardly the most pessimistic reader can ever have felt as other than assured.

The terrible nature of the drinks and drugs consumed by the Natives, I have already had occasion to describe, as also the increasingly large number of those who are becoming enchained by the habit.

Little by little his voice swelled until it was full, sonorous, richly warm and compelling, the words pouring from him with a fluency that enchained.

But I suppose the weary, aching body has the soul pretty well enchained.

But though her tongue could mock him, all the rest of her was enchained.

In the midst thereof was seen the tall, lank figure of a man, whose extraordinary appearance enchained the attention of the multitude, and excited afresh their shouts and derisive laughter.

All these new and unaccustomed feelings only enchained him the more closely, and made him consider the possession of her as the most desirable and only worthy object of his life.

He has resolved all doubt; I am still enchained to a fate that drags me on and on into ... into what?

The evil thing had her enchained.

"To love and to suffer; but, loving once"again the count was speaking, and his voice enchained her by its sweetness"to love forever.