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
It was my good fortune to take prisoner Lieutenant Powell, the officer in command, and to receive as my own a fine silver-mounted revolver, which he reluctantly placed in my hand.
From Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Glazier, Willard W.
They carried clubs, and they looked, as I heard, for no less than to take prisoner the Duke of Burgundy himself.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
“You are the last man I wanted to take prisoner under such circumstances.”
From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester
And sithen the lord Faucomberge take prisoner by subtile undew meanys of a cautel taken under safconduct of youre adversarie at Pountelarge the xv day of Maij, the yere of Crist Ml.iiijcxlix.
From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown
