insnare

On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

-- Many a trapp is set to insnare the feet of youth.

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 47: Matthew The Challoner Revision

_ Pray, Madam, do not thus suspend my doubtful Soul; but if you do design to insnare my Life, speak, speak freely: Or if the Constable be at the Door, let him shew his Staff of Authority, perhaps I may corrupt him with a Bribe.

The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris

Then the Pharisees going, consulted among themselves how to insnare him in his speech.

The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

"Those are the very wiles by which doll-faced stage women insnare our most desirable young men."

Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress George Randolph Chester 1896

"My enemy maun sen 'for an ootlandish speech and a heathen tongue to insnare ane o' the brethren!"

Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864

Mrs. Arnot did not intend that she should brood over Haldane until her vivid imagination should weave a net out of his misfortunes which might insnare her heart.

A Knight of the Nineteenth Century Edward Payson Roe 1863

Tresses fair, insnare, 326. like the morn, 246. whitening lip and fading, 636.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862