Shanghais

So as you see, when the sun comes out, Linda and Cheryl try to take the poor, poor cripple out, who then shanghais them into a Colonial Experience seriously, for a beer, and a $8 mixed drink, this is the best ride in town! ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2009)

If she shanghais the guy into it, he may love the child. ❋ Sherry Argov (2006)

He immediately shanghais the kid from the circus in the Batmobile, away from all the authorities that probably would have some small amount of concern about a recently-orphaned child: ❋ Unknown (2005)

Home was, alas! no longer the snug nest in which she was safe from the slings and shanghais of the world. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Hannah was standing on the step of the porch, holding a tin pan of chicken food in her hands, and feeding two pet bantams that she kept separate from the shanghais, which beat them cruelly whenever they got a chance. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)

My favorite scene was the one in which a lovely young widow, Alex (Patricia Wayne, also known as Patricia Cutts), shanghais Adam into attending church, and then is pleasantly surprised to find Adam can sing along without the need to look at the hymnal. ❋ Laura (2010)

Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Nat shanghais his reluctant son into driving him cross-country for experimental medical treatment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Amazon's reader is a brilliant device that shanghais book buyers and the book industry into accepting a radically diminished marketplace for published works. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Elisa grabs the younger Mr. Templeton and shanghais him into the other room as Jack tries to sneak out. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I shall bring some friends from The Heritage Foundation and the Hoover Institution -- Ph. D.s. Perhaps we can plot how to re-reform welfare after the Obama administration shanghais the poor back into the welfare trap.

Amplifying the enterprising doctor's frustrations and anxieties, his practical genius and ethical dread, the music sighs and whines like the surgical instruments Dr. Marsh shanghais from the NHS. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The woman Lisa Miller who shanghais the child to Virginia, because that state has a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and she thinks in a so-called "family friendly" state where she can find legal sympathy from a Virginia judge if need be inspite of rulings to the contrary by Vermont judges in favor of her ex Janet Jenkins, claims she is no longer a lesbian and and hires Liberty Counsel an antigay conservative right-wing legal outfit to take up her cause of getting sole custody of the child, and is likely poisoning her child's mind against Janet and will soon be poisoning her child's mind against gay people in general. ❋ Unknown (2009)

          "Bully for Seabrooke; he shanghais me and then expects my enthusiastic support. ❋ Anderson, Poul (1970)

I wish the shanghais would swallow you! "cried Hannah, speaking first to Ishmael as she cast her arms around his neck; and next to the bantams that had flown up to her shoulders. ❋ Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1859)