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 Willard W. Glazier
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
"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
There was now a chance that the American submarine might move alongside and take prisoner the German birdmen in the damaged machine.
From The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet by James R. [pseud.] Driscoll
