insnaring

Many arise from indwelling corruption -- many from an insnaring world -- many from Satan's malice and devices.

Sermons on Various Important Subjects Andrew Lee

Without imputing, however, to this Anne Hathaway any thing so hateful as a settled plot for insnaring him, it was easy enough for a mature woman, armed with such inevitable advantages of experience and of self-possession, to draw onward a blushing novice; and, without directly creating opportunities, to place him in the way of turning to account such as naturally offered.

Biographical Essays Thomas De Quincey 1822

He defended his honor, as well as his life, against the insnaring subtleties of the eunuchs, who endeavored to extort some declaration of his sentiments; and whilst he cautiously suppressed his grief and resentment, he nobly disdained to flatter the tyrant, by any seeming approbation of his brother's murder.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

He defended his honor, as well as his life, against the insnaring subtleties of the eunuchs, who endeavored to extort some declaration of his sentiments; and whilst he cautiously suppressed his grief and resentment, he nobly disdained to flatter the tyrant, by any seeming approbation of his brother's murder.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

Parliamentary accusation gives the prisoner fair notice to prepare himself upon all points: whereas there seems something insnaring in the proceedings upon indictment, which, fixing the specification of a day certain for the treason or felony as absolutely necessary in the charge, gives notice for preparation only on _that day_, whilst the prosecutor has the whole range of time antecedent to the indictment to allege and give evidence of facts against the prisoner.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

Now, is not the company of, and communion with ungodly men, of the same general profession, but mockers and haters of the power thereof, as infectious and insnaring?

The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

Hardly any device, which the ingemiky of man has dis covered for insnaring or destroying wild animals, was un - known to the Americans.

The history of America 1812

His anger and resentment are inflamed; and indignant that the unworthy engines of a vile usurper should be thought capable of insnaring him, he confounds them, by shewing them he had discovered their in - tentions, and overwhelms them with the su - percilious dignity of his displeasure.

Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters: With an Illustration of ... 1812

The minister Joseph Bellamy of Connecticut, another leader of the Great Awakening and one of the Founding Fathers’ principal clerical allies, preached against “the pernicious and insnaring practice of dancing.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

It is impossible to regard without indignation and disgust the system of artifice and intrigue which he contrived for the purpose of insnaring the persecuted and therefore disaffected catholics; and while due credit is given to his unwearied diligence and remarkable sagacity in detecting dangerous conspiracies, it cannot be doubted that the extraordinary encouragements held out by him to spies and informers, -- those pests of a commonwealth, -- must in numberless instances have rendered himself the dupe, and innocent persons the victims, of designing villany.

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822