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The terrorists are believed to be holding their captives in the basement of a private residence somewhere near the airport.

Among the remainder of my tiny captives were two beautiful members of the Vorticella family, Epistylis and Carchesium.

On one or two former occasions I had been unfortunate enough to give my captives a squeeze too much, with the usual result of a rupture of their integuments and an escape of globules and fluids from the regions within.

You may keep us captives as you will, but you will not break our spirit.

' In the meantime the captives themselves were suffering, as may well be believed, agonies of suspense.

Evelyn describes how a gang of robbers succeeded in appropriating the taxes that had been collected in the northern counties, as the bags containing the money were being escorted through Hertfordshire, on their way to London: the highwaymen first stopped and secured all travellers in the immediate neighbourhood, placed them under guard in a field, and after killing the horses of their captives to prevent pursuit, attacked the escort, put them to flight, and captured the treasure.

Sufficient of this Hook guessed to persuade him that Peter at last lay at his mercy, but no word of the dark design that now formed in the subterranean caverns of his mind crossed his lips; he merely signed that the captives were to be conveyed to the ship, and that he would be alone.

The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prison-house of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.

Many captives were brought to me in this way.

While the island was owned at various times by each of the major European colonial powers active in West Africa, the LAT is wrong to describe it as the place "where millions of Africans ended their lives as free people and became captives of white men sending them across the ocean to an unknown future.

Only half the captives survived.

And must I say, finally, that Aurelian wished to send the captives into the desert lands of Etruria, and that Valentinian was forced to settle the Alamanni on the fertile banks of the Po?

It is thought that these captives were so numerous as to become an important element in the population of the eastern Delta, and even to modify the character of the Egyptian race in that quarter.

His Majesty made a great slaughter of them, an immense number of live captives was carried off by His Majesty.

In one of his most successful raids the slain were only three hundred and twelve, while the captives consisted of two hundred and five men, two hundred and fifty women, and two hundred and eighty-five children, or a total of seven hundred and forty, and the proportion in the others was similar.

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