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Example sentences for "ensnaring"

Lexicographically close words:
enslaver; enslaves; enslaving; ensnare; ensnared; ensorcelled; ensouled; ensue; ensued; ensueing
  1. One is that in Proverbs, where Solomon is counselling of young men to beware of strange, that is, of wanton, light, and ensnaring women.

  2. He gave a strong and beautiful proof of the dread with which God inspired him as to ensnaring company; and I cannot pass it over.

  3. Oh how many wasted hours, how much of unprofitable labor, what wrong to my fellow-creatures, what robbery of God, must I refer to this ensnaring book.

  4. It would not be an easy matter duly to estimate the ensnaring influences of such objects, or the immense difficulty of throwing them overboard.

  5. We have not to cry against burning incense to Baal, and worshiping the host of heaven, but we have something far more ensnaring and dangerous.

  6. But there is another very ensnaring and dangerous resource presented by the enemy of the Bible, and alas!

  7. His own practice, however, had in this material point varied from his principles, since, as we have seen, he twice knitted for himself this dangerous and ensnaring entanglement.

  8. A connection with any of the families of the Canaanites would have been at once ensnaring to the household of Abraham and injurious in its influence upon the heart of Isaac.

  9. There was the resort to a sensible representation,--some image probably used as a symbol of the true God at first, but certainly ensnaring the heart, and ending in idolatry.

  10. Tis Lawful for People to use Recreations; but in the Evening of the Lords Day, or the Morning of any Day, how Ensnaring are they!

  11. I see another law in my members fighting against the law of my mind and ensnaring me in the law of sin.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. His graceful bow and ensnaring address led many good-natured people into a belief that he was really an honest man and a gentleman!

  15. Of these ensnaring engines levelled to these ends, some have been more patent and open, others more latent and hidden; both have made a pray of people, the last chiefly.

  16. With wise insight she realized the hopelessness of endeavoring to free her husband from the ensnaring power of Diana, and so she artfully made his favorite her friend, and seemingly acquiesced in the ascendency of her rival.

  17. Money most certainly is one of the most ensnaring and heart-changing of possessions.

  18. At one time he speaks as one penetrated and inspired by the highest and purest ideas of love, and filled with aversion and scorn for the coarser forms of passion--for what is ensnaring and treacherous, as well as for what is odious and foul.

  19. Sir Guyon, after conquering many foes of goodness, is the destroyer of the most perilous of them all, Acrasia, licentiousness, and her ensnaring Bower of Bliss.


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