The corporal passed from one to another of the captives till he came to Somers; thrusting the lantern into the face of each, so that the officer could scan his features.
It would have been impossible to distinguish between the captives and the captors; for the latter were extremely considerate, as they had probably been instructed to be by the captain of the company.
The risk will really be entirely mine, for I shall take charge of the captives we make at our rendezvous.
I want a place which will be at once lonely and far removed from other habitations, but it must be at the same time moderately comfortable, as the captives we take must have no reason to complain of their treatment while in my hands.
As they knew the direction in which the captives would be taken Geoffrey started before daybreak, and kept steadily along until he reached a spot where it was probable they would halt for the night.
She did not seem to heed the cries and threats with which the townspeople as usual assailed the newly-arrived captives, but kept her eyes fixed upon one of the captives who walked before her.
The traders and the two Arabs were sitting by the fire; the captives were lying extended on the ground.
He felt sure that no guard would be set, for any attempt on the part of the captives to escape would be nothing short of madness.
One day, however, they learned from the people who were running down to the shore to see the captives landed from a ship that had been brought in by the corsair during the night, that there were two or three women among the captives.
During the time that they had been captives some three or four vessels had been brought in by the corsair.
Perhaps Mrs. Lascelles proved most successful in the massacre of middle-aged adorers, while young boys and old gentlemen fell prostrate without effort, willing captives to the devilry and seductions of Miss Ross.
You see, they kept them long enough to make them unhappy, if they had no other motive, and then put them out of the way just as the captives were beginning to get attached to their conquerors.
This battle honour was conferred on the troops which, advancing from Kandahar under General Nott, aided in the release of the captives in Kabul, and in the punishment of the Afghans for the murder of our Envoy in 1841.
Armstrong, as the captives sat grouped together in the midst of the host on the first night of their camping out in the desert.
Here the captives were thrust into a small dark hut and left to their meditations, while a couple of Arab sentries guarded the door.
At the door of the public building the soldiers drew up and allowed the captives to pass in, guarded by two officers and the interpreter.
Then the captives all descended into the hole, which was not more than four feet deep, after which the Arab shut the trap, covered it as before with a little rubbish, and went away.
By this time the captives had learned from experience that if they wished to avoid the spear-points they must walk in advance of their captors at a very smart pace.
This man--towards whom all of them showed great deference--was engaged when the captives entered; they were therefore obliged to stand aside for a few minutes.
Alexander found in Susa all the captives of quality he had left there.
Behind the throne different captives are suffering death in various ways; some held by the executioner by the hair of their head; others dragged by chariots or slain by the arrow or the scimitar.
While trembling captives round the victor wait, Hang on his eye, and catch the word of fate, Zenobia's self must quail beneath his nod, A kneeling suppliant to the mimic god.
On the right wall are captives in chains, with their hands and genitals cut off, as marks of reproach for their cowardice.
To these deserted halls were brought the captives of Judæa.
After the memorable release of the captives at Camp Release, the scouts were very diligent in searching out and locating the numerous small bands of hostile Indians who were scattered through the country to the north and west of the camp.
Hendricks, knowing the customs of the country, put his horse into a trot, Crawford and Denis and the two boys imitating him, and thus the warriors and their captives appeared to be rushing forward eagerly towards the palace of the king.
The chief captives were carried to Byzantium, and brought before the emperor, who sat on a throne studded with emeralds, and wore a diadem of pearls embroidered with gold.
But there is the reign of a prophet on earth; receive his successor and you shall be our equals, refuse him and you, your wives and your children will be the captives of his sword.
All stood captives before their conquerors: and suffered that utmost misery of those once powerful: to be reduced to slavery, and then slaughtered.
These captives were not the victims of angry passions in men maddened by a furious conflict, but the avowed and justified reward of those who might, if slain in battle, have been martyrs, but instead were victorious.
A revolutionary tribunal was formed from among the armed ruffians themselves, who examined the registers of the prison, and summoned the captives individually to undergo the form of a trial.
The captives were carried in triumph to the convention, who, without admitting them to the bar, ordered them, as outlaws, for instant execution.
He went visiting once to a province and thought it would be pleasant to see how they disposed of criminals and captives in their crude, old-fashioned way, but there was no executioner on hand.
Sometimes when there were no captives on hand he would say, 'Well, never mind; bring out a carpenter.
He would go to the arena between times and have captives and wild beasts brought out and turned in together for his special enjoyment.
Those fairy islands we saw floating in the placid Sea of Marmora held many illustrious captives within the walls of its cloisters and convents.
And then comes endless misery, unchronicled and long-forgotten--the captives taken in the wars.
A Greek priest who went to visit the prisoners concealed under his garments a long piece of pack-thread, and by these means the captives gained their freedom.
Thus passes this glorious array--Emperors on horseback or in chariots, their guards and soldiery, captives and slaves both men and women, trophies and spoils of war.
Britons who followed as captives in the train of Theodosius, Normans who had camped outside the city walls under the banner of the Cross, Saxons and Danes who had met them in the field and on the ramparts with their battle-axes.
Among the captives big-limbed Slavs, and then more troops, some in the primitive costume of their native wilds, others in armour of all periods.
Two captives languished in the dungeons of a castle on the Black Sea.
The two captives were forced to lead the savages to their camps, which were deliberately plundered, one after the other, of everything in them.
The captives were but twenty-seven in number, some of the hunters not having returned to camp.
Many white captives were seriously crippled in this thrilling experience, and not a few lost their lives.
The most tractable captives were often taken into the families of the captors to supply the place of warriors killed in battle.
Each night the captives were made fast and closely watched.
Then awful Jove with sullen eye reproved 420 Mars, and the captives order'd to be moved To their dark caves; bid each fictitious spear Be straight recall'd, and all be as they were.
The souls of the two captives seemed to unite in one body.
The two captives entirely coincided with respect to the injustice of their captivity.
Among the books which employed the leisure of the two captives were some poems and also translations of Greek tragedies, and some dramatic pieces in French.
Freind was affected by this maxim, but he represented to them that the custom of burning captives at the stake, was degrading to worthy people; and that, with so much virtue, they should be less ferocious.
Among the captives was a maiden of unusual beauty, whom he had wrested from an inferior officer.
He certainly released all the captives of that faith, and restored them to their own country.
The Christians devastated the beautiful land of Andalusia, and carried off captives and booty, burning villages and threatening the towns.
By threats and slight torture, the captives were made to confess the hostile intentions of Powhatan and the other chiefs, which was to steal their weapons and then overpower the colony.
The captives were taken to Axopolis and all sold as slaves.
They come all of them for violence; their faces are set eagerly as the east wind; and they gather captives as the sand.
The captives became slaves laboring on the fortifications or straining at the oars.
They cast thousands of captives into dungeons and demanded heavy ransoms for their release.
Among the captives held for ransom were many Americans.
How bright the triumph none can tell, When the rebellious powers of hell That thousand souls had captive made, Were all in chains like captives led.
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