hold captive
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It also said the Taliban should free 1,000 government personnel, including military men, they hold captive.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 25, 2020
We will credit him with no desire to capture and hold captive the native coolies, but with a longing while still in sight of India's coral strand for the boar and tiger haunts.
From My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt
The foes whom we hold captive / fain would leave straightway, And long for lasting friendship / with all my men and me.
From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by George Henry Needler
Yet we will turn from them all, from the victory and sorrow alike, to this faintly gleaming bubble of glass that will hold captive the phantasm of a fragrance of the soul.
From Aspects of Literature by J. Middleton Murry
There are three powers, three powers alone, able to conquer and to hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their happiness—those forces are miracle, mystery and authority.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
