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Enthral   /ɛnθrˈɔl/   Listen
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Enthrall  v. t.  (Written also enthral)  To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall. "The bars survive the captive they enthrall."



Inthrall  v. t.  (past & past part. inthralled; pres. part. inthralling)  (Written also inthral, enthral, and enthrall)  To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave. "She soothes, but never can inthrall my mind."






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"Enthral" Quotes from Famous Books



... me, I adore Some twenty or more, And love them most dearly; but yet, Though my heart they enthral, I'd abandon them all, Did they act like your ...
— Byron's Poetical Works, Vol. 1 • Byron

... signal, Brangaena! O give the signal! Tread out the torch's trembling gleam, that night may envelop all with her veil. Already her peace reigns o'er hill and hall, her rapturous awe the heart does enthral; allow then the light to fall! Let but its dread lustre die! let my ...
— Tristan and Isolda - Opera in Three Acts • Richard Wagner

... fit to see her first; no day too long to gaze on her from here, and mark fresh beauties as the shadows change. Here we would lie and marvel at the scene, then let the dreams of days gone by—the days that wove the long romance of Oxford—enthral us till we hardly know ...
— Oxford • Frederick Douglas How

... more in those dear arms, Nor thy life's comfort call me, O these are but too powerful charms, And do but more enthral me! But see how patient I am grown In all this coil about thee: Come, nice thing, let my heart alone, I cannot live ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various

... of queens; and therewithal Some wood-born wonder's sweet simplicity; A glance like water brimming with the sky Or hyacinth-light where forest shadows fall; Such thrilling pallor of cheek as doth enthral The heart; a mouth whose passionate forms imply All music and all silence held thereby; Deep golden locks, her sovereign coronal; A round reared neck, meet column of Love's shrine To cling to when the heart takes sanctuary; Hands which ...
— Master of the Vineyard • Myrtle Reed



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