142 examples of enthral in sentences

And while her heart was fixed on one, her charms no less enthralled The heart of this brave cavalier, Celin Andalla called.

Myrtle had begged them to see that she was called at five o'clock, that she might have ample time to get to the depot for her train, but no one called her and the poor child was so weary and worn with her trip that the soft bed enthralled her for many hours after daybreak.

She so charmed and enthralled not only him but all the rest who had any influence with him that she conceived the hope of ruling the Romans, and made her greatest vow, whenever she took any oath, that of dispensing justice on the Capitol.

He spoke lightly and yet he glimpsed a soul really stirred; saw that for the moment, if for no longer, the great solitudes held her enthralled.

This determination of partisanship by temper has its worst effects in the career of the public man, who is always in danger of getting so enthralled by his own words that he looks into facts and questions not to get rectifying knowledge, but to get evidence that will justify his actual attitude which was assumed under an impulse dependent on something else than knowledge.

" Inachus and Pineus, and how many loving rivers can I reckon up, whom beauty hath enthralled!

As well may witness their intolerable covetousness, strange forgeries, fopperies, fooleries, unrighteous subtleties, impostures, illusions, new doctrines, paradoxes, traditions, false miracles, which they have still forged, to enthral, circumvent and subjugate them, to maintain their own estates.

Yet, now I think of it, how completely did Clodagh enthral me!

There is something in his way of regarding the world and of reproducing its aspects which dominates our fancy, does violence to our sense of harmony and beauty, leaves us broken and bewildered, resentful and at the same moment enthralled.

The captive linnet which enthral?

could I e'en be born again, Thou doubly would'st enthral me.

Her auditor listened like a being enthralled.

They long their fellow-subjects to enthral, Their patron's promise into question call, And vainly think he meant to make them lords of all.

A yoke is hung over the victor's neck, And fetters enthral the strong, And manhood's pride like a fearful wreck, Lies the breakers of care among; And the gleams of hope, overshadow'd, seem The phantoms of some distemper'd dream.

Standing before this picture in the Uffizzi, we feel that the Church, while hoping to adorn her cherished dogmas with aesthetic beauty, had encouraged a power antagonistic to her own, a power that liberated the spirit she sought to enthral, restoring to mankind the earthly paradise from which monasticism had expelled it.

She was leaning forward on the rail of the box, her chin in her hand, her eyes looking steadily ahead, enthralled by the music.

The captive linnet which enthral?

Sinful and yet desiring to be helped, Enthralled of sin, yet seeking after God!

Cairns was enthralled and mystified.

Her voice enthralled Bedient.

Sitting carelessly on his pine-bottomed chairit was one from the Kelcey houseone hand in his pocket, his heavy hair tossed back and his lips smiling, Brown's splendid tones rang through the room and held his listeners enthralled.

One day as I sat teaching my scholars, he entered and listened attentively, while I by chance had in hand a passage which, while I was explaining, suggested to me a simile from the circensian races, not without a jibe at those who were enthralled by that folly.

Into the drawing of the first I threw all the passion of my nature, striving to paint the Ideal in colours which should enthral and fascinate, so that love and desire to realise might stir man to effort.

ye enthral, so that we forget that the sun goes down, and the moon rises.

Then, suddenly and without any preluding, he began to make music, and from the first note Nino sat enthralled and fascinated, losing himself in the wild sport of the tones.

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