insnared

Many such pools of light, gifts, and profession, have we seen utterly dried up, when they have come into age, or been insnared by the temptations of the world.

Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965

Therefore I know not whether I should grieve most for those who were slain, or for those whom the devil insnared into the eternal pains of hell, where they will be chained like him.

The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

The infinite number of rats that all the voyage had been our plague, we now were glad to make our prey to feed on; and as they were insnared and taken a well grown rat was sold for sixteen shillings as a market rate.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

Want of prudence, as well as piety, hath brought men into great inconveniencys; but he that is well stored with both, seldom is so insnared.

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918 1890

This was the history of the hoop skirt and the Grecian bend, and has been that of most of the extremes which have marked the past, and we can readily believe that in no other way could womanhood have been insnared by such supreme and criminal folly as has characterized fashion's caprices in unnumbered instances.

The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 Various 1888

Want of prudence, as well as piety, hath brought men into great inconveniencys; but he that is well stored with both, seldom is so insnared.

Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878

After some years of dolorous wandering in this palace of despair, -- for ` hope of rest to solace there is none, nor e'en of milder pang, 'save the poisonous anodyne of drink, -- most of those insnared to-night will perish, some of them in horrible torture.

Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

For though he saw that an engagement with the cavalry would be without any danger to his chosen legion, yet he did not think proper to engage, lest, after the enemy were routed, it might be said that they had been insnared by him under the sanction of a conference.

Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books attributed to Hirtius. 1869

By what hellish witchcraft had she been insnared into the degrading alliance recorded in this miserable scrap of paper?

Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

The fellow had not a little vanity, and was insnared, his suspicions quieted for the time.

What Can She Do? Edward Payson Roe 1863