Meanings of hold in thrall in английском

This is a production, lively and theatrical enough to hold in thrall the target audiences of hundreds at a time of other wise restless teenagers.

He seemed to be held in thrall by the sad immensity before them.

Was she anything like the one you were holding in thrall in Prague?

From the beginning they were vastly outnumbered by the systems held in thrall by the Emperor.

They watch with wide, absorbed eyes at the mystery, held in thrall by the sound of emotion.

He cannot bear to think that we were held in thrall by the Charon for so long.'

They had feared the conventions, and had been held in thrall by their own carefully nursed ideals of themselves.

Again they gazed, like creatures held in thrall by some magician, till she held out her hand and said,-

Slightly raised above the crowd, the Apostle, preaching with great power and persuasion concerning superstition, holds in thrall the assembled multitude.

Sir Tarquin could boast of no mean success;-threescoreknights and four, it is said, were held in thrall by this uncourteous chieftain.

At the field a heavy silence prevailed, overpowering motion like a ruthless, insensate spell holding in thrall the only beings who might break it.

"He will think I am his man, held in thrall by his promise to heal my face and make me rich," said Rokan.

"They say necromancers hold in thrall those whom they have brought back to life," he said, "but I never thought it would work this way."