take prisoner
Example Sentences
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The Russians were easy to take prisoner, and some had served for little more than a month, according to their documents.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
In the first place he sent nine men well armed to take prisoner a bold cacique named Caonabo.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World by Dora Leigh
The young gentleman in question certainly made his flock obey him in a wonderful manner, his chief object being to take prisoner a pigeon from his neighbour’s flock.
From A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home by Laurence Oliphant
"But why should they take prisoner a wounded civilian?"
From The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade by Burton Egbert Stevenson
And he, at a tyme, by chaunge of fortune in bataile, was take prisoner into Cartage, being of gret age than.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
