take captive
Example Sentences
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Though the enemy be many they shall turn their backs in flight before the weak man, and one shall take captive a thousand.
From The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
There Barak is not summoned against his will; on the contrary, he has a personal motive for taking up arms: "Arise, Barak; take captive thy captors, thou son of Ahinoam."
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
For these he may take captive without danger to himself.
From The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Howard Pyle
How admirably contrived is every part of the structure of this system to take captive the imagination.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese) Morse
"And now," she said, "ye must have arms; but use them not rashly; take captive, but save life; let the law have its own—he must speak ere he die."
From The Junior Classics — Volume 5 by William Patten
