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He fell captive to her charms.
The young girl was held captive by her father, who was upset because he felt he wasn't getting enough chances to see her since he and his wife divorced.
A Danish proverb tells us that it is better to be a free bird than a captive king.
All captive white tigers are descended from a male named Mohan, caught in northern India in 1951.
On February 14, 1979, the American Embassy in Iran was stormed by demonstrators, who held the Ambassador and staff captive for several hours.
Crombie has therefore our sympathies in the remark with which his summary of the gonidia controversy closes, in which he characterizes it as a “sensational romance of lichenology,” of the “unnatural union between a captive algal damsel and a tyrant fungal master.
The hydra made no attempt to convey the captive to its mouth, but held it tight until another Water Flea, a round merry little fellow (Chydorus sphæricus), came to the rescue, and assisted Canthocamptus to escape by tugging at her tail.
'I mind when one was captive in my father's castle who was a mere clown, and drank up the water that was meant to wash his fingers after meat.
Duke Sigismund turned and gazed at her in surprise, and an old herald who was waiting near observed, 'Is that the daughter of the captive King of Scotland?
' 'A captive has no choice save to listen,' returned Eleanor; 'but as to speaking of terms, my brothers-in-law, the Dauphin and the Duke of Brittany, may have something to say to them.
' 'The captive ladies may be secured from an injury if your lordship holds a parley, demands the amount of ransom, and, without pledging yourself, undertakes to consult the Dauphin and their other kinsmen on the matter.
The chivalrous King was delighted with the adventure, only wishing he had shared in the rescue of the captive princesses.
We boast ourselves that we have led captive our conquerors, and that we have made them into sons of the87 soil as faithful as ourselves.
For a moment his work seemed to89 have died with him; for some years Parliaments were still summoned which were not after the model of the great Assembly which answered to the writs of the captive Henry.
The sounding balloon, already mentioned, is one of the four principal types of aerial vehicle used in the study of the atmosphere, the others being the21 pilot balloon, the captive balloon, and the kite.
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