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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of inthrall.

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Examples

  • I am thankful for fear's fleeting nature, yet still inthralled by it's presence when it is here.

    Tales of an Alderwoman: Living with fear Mindy Glover 2009

  • I am thankful for fear's fleeting nature, yet still inthralled by it's presence when it is here.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Mindy Glover 2009

  • This was very baffling to his suit; but then these slumbers were accompanied by agreeable dreams, which completely inthralled the senses of the drowsy lover, so he continued to dream on, while all Granada scoffed at his infatuation, and groaned at the treasures lavished for a song.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • This was very baffling to his suit; but then these slumbers were accompanied by agreeable dreams, which completely inthralled the senses of the drowsy lover, so he continued to dream on, while all Granada scoffed at his infatuation, and groaned at the treasures lavished for a song.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • If they are redeemed, then are they delivered from all misery, virtually or actually, whereunto they were inthralled, and that by the intervention of a ransom.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • A price is paid for all, yet few delivered; the redemption of all consummated, yet few of them redeemed; the judge satisfied, the jailer conquered, and yet the prisoner inthralled!

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

  • Instead of justifying the expectations he had aroused by vigorously enforcing the principles of his letter of acceptance and inaugural address, the President, as if inthralled by some mysterious spell, had discredited his professions by his performances.

    A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

  • Near the entrance he came upon the Rosetta Stone, and stood inthralled.

    Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

  • And, Mary, inthralled, enrapt, adoring her father, and seeing every picture conjured up by his sonorous rhythm or quaint phrase, was much more familiar with the deeds and gossip of King

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

  • I stood inthralled until, even as he was talking, the clock struck three, when he rose up, and moving slowly across the floor, barely visible, murmured regretfully that he must be off, with which he faded away down the back stairs.

    Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others John Kendrick Bangs 1892

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