He did a good deal of sight-seeing of his own kind, and once went up in a captive balloon.
He then attached the ends firmly to one of the upright beams of the barn, so as to prevent the captive from crawling away from the place.
The night was pitch-dark; but the moment the two ruffians with their captive entered the barn, a lantern in the hands of the Cracksman was suddenly made to throw a bright light forwards.
They fed me, housed me, invited me to their homes, and made the hours pass as a pleasant dream to a poor captive Frenchman.
Facts were as I have stated, and I found myself poor and a captivewith those three lives between me and a fortune.
Poor little towers in a land of airplanes and captive balloons!
They were very good to me, these warbound women, one of whom, I discovered, had an ulcerated tooth, the other two little boys captive in Belgium.
A captive in the land, A stranger and a youth, He heard the king's command, He saw that writing's truth.
In the woods of Powhattan, Still 'tis told by Indian fires How a daughter of their sires Saved a captive Englishman.
Lord Beichan he did marvel sore, The Moor's fair daughter there to see; But took her for some captive maid, Brought from some land in Christendie.
According to the account given in the fifth chapter of Daniel, Belshazzar was the last king of Babylon, and the son of the great king Nebuchadnezzar, who had destroyed Jerusalem and taken the Jewish people captive to Babylon.
The captive lifted his splendid head, kicked, and struggled to his feet, bewildered.
He would jump, and tug, and flop, and spring into the air, and almost wrench the captive toes from their sockets.
In this crisis, his backwoods understanding and sympathy suddenly went out toward the plucky but helpless captive in the sack on his back.
On its threshold he paused and scrutinized the captive with triumphant admiration.
He would have been drowned in a few seconds, in such water; but at last, in the twisting, the captive foot fell clear.
To all inquiries as to what he would do with his captive Ramsay would answer, "Sell him to circus, maybe.
This effective weapon he threw over the bird's head; and in a few moments the captive was so securely trussed up that he could do nothing but eye his captors with implacable and indomitable hate.
At the flash of the blade the captive looked up wonderingly from his bonds.
The prince always comes to thecaptive princess, the jail doors open in time, and the birds find some kind hand to set them free; but there seemed no hope of escape for this poor child.
It hurt her much, but she did not let go, and carried her captive back to its master, who thanked her, and begged her to come in and chain up the bad bird, for he was evidently rather afraid of it.
Octavius, to whom every thing relating to hiscaptive was minutely reported by her attendants, suspected her design.
It was with this view that Caesar brought Arsinoe from Egypt; and he had retained her as his captive at Rome until his conquests were completed and the time for his triumph arrived.
Sometimes men were employed in these combats--captive soldiers, that had been taken in war, and brought to Rome to fight in the amphitheaters there as gladiators.
His design was, in fact, to reserve her as a captive to grace his triumph.
This supposition in respect to the mode of her death is, in fact, confirmed by the action of Octavius himself on his return to Rome, which furnishes a strong indication of his opinion of the manner in which his captive at last eluded him.
I can not join thee, for I am a captive and a prisoner, and they will not let me die.
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered.
What gave him twenty thousand Crowns a year, But that which made me captive to Erminia, Almighty Love, of which thou say'st he is ignorant?
All that I have is so intirely thine, And such a Captive thou hast made my Will, Thou needst not be at the expence of wishing For what thou canst desire that I may grant; Why are thy Eyes declin'd?
Captive Israel are seated, in mute despondency, by the willowed banks of the streams of Babylon.
Like the captive in the dungeon longing to cool his fevered brow in the air of heaven, its sickly leaves seem to struggle and gasp for breath.
It is often apparently the sport and captive of opposing currents.
Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banished lover or some captive maid.
But now the captive fish found its strength failing.
Whatever Yoop happens to be, I'd much rather have him a captive than running around loose.
Give him repentance unto life, that he may recover himself out of the snare of the devil, who is taken captive by him at his will.
Frog-eye Fearsome drags the captive Prince and Princess to the Ogre's tower.
I'm to be the captive princess, and Keith will be my brother whom the witch changes into a dog.
What happiness is to the lover left Of peace bereft, What freedom for his captive heart remains Held in her chains?
The hearts of all Thy captive lovers stray Hither and thither driven by whims of Thine, Sometimes within the Kaaba courts to pray, Sometimes to worship at the Idols' Shrine.
Messhawa took leave of his young captivewith many expressions of esteem and friendship.
In this peril nothing was left, other than to sell their lives as dearly as possible; this they resolved to do, and advised the girl to escape to the Indians, and tell them she had been a captive to the scouts.
In the latter part of 1777, Kenton, having crossed the Ohio, on a horse-catching expedition, was overtaken and made captive by the Indians.
Though chagrined by the loss of their prisoner, the capture of one of his rescuers was a redeeming feature of the fray, and the latest captive was brought before the officers for the purpose of being interrogated.
Warsaw soon after surrendered, Stanislaus was sent as a captive to Russia, and the final partition of the kingdom was made.
The captive prince approached the victor without sullenness or pride.
When Sappho struck the quivering wire, The throbbing breast was all on fire; And when she raised the vocal lay, The captive soul was charm'd away!
The American captive is more inclined to utter the equivalent of 'nothing doing,'" remarked Jerry, one day when discussing the matter.
Still this information had to be carefully checked up before being acted on, as it would not do to run into danger as a result of what some Hun captive told.
When the attention is thus held captiveby the image, it approximates in character to an external impression in another way.
In this case, the attention is heldcaptive by the particular feeling of the moment.
For two whole days Frederick Graves had been held a captive in his unfurnished prison.
