taking captive
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A patriotic judge fined Farmer MacMillan $13 for violating the Federal law against taking captive the National Bird.
From Time Magazine Archive
And thus ended our hope to save the Maid by taking captive the Duke of Burgundy.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
Though dead politically, there now occurred the unusual spectacle of "captive Greece taking captive her rude conqueror," and spreading Greek art, literature, philosophy, science, and Greek ideas throughout the Mediterranean world.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
Hellenizing first the Eastern Mediterranean, and then taking captive her rude conqueror, the Hellenization of the Roman and early Christian world was the result.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
He succeeded in taking captive the whole body.
From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
