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
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
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
I was also constantly to patrol the lines of the native regiments, to confine the sepoys to their huts, and to take prisoner any who ventured outside.
From A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 by Griffiths, Charles John
"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 Stevenson, Burton Egbert
