When Babbie was plucked off the hill, she thought as little as Gavin that her captor was Rob Dow.
In the first she thought Lord Rintoul had kidnapped her; but no sooner had her captor resolved himself into Dow, drunk with the events of the day and night, than in the earl's hands would have lain safety.
With the coming of dawn she hoped to learn more about the camp, but she was doomed to disappointment for her captor appeared and dropped the canvas fly which covered the front of the tiny tent.
The birds and deer desert the brakes And show the path my captor takes, And thus e’en now this royal bird Flew to mine aid by pity stirred.
Like sovereigns of celestial race Within the wood they came, Each pondering the means to trace, The captor of the dame.
But, though the persistence of this affection on Tommy's part had finally induced his captor to give him his liberty, Al could by no means feel sure that such liberty might not be more dangerous for his brother than captivity had been.
It is quite possible that his captor may weary of holding your son a prisoner during the coming winter and take him into one of the fur-trading posts along the Missouri River.
Among them, however, is no individual satisfying the description of the captor of your son Thomas, as given to me by your elder son.
But he was a bold fellow, too well used to danger to shrink from it, even in so terrible a form as this; and his fierce yellow eyes met the stern gaze of his captor without shrinking.
Seeing that she made no effort to free herself, or to speak, her captor removed his hand from her mouth; but not until they were well out of sight and hearing of her parents.
The only amendments which were ever made were those for the increase of the reward to the captor and it is significant that the first of these changes did not come until more than a generation later in 1835.
In the meantime the sheriff was authorized to hire out the fugitive and the wages thus received were to pay for the reward of the captor and the expenses incurred by the county officials.
Next, his captor clapped a cloth to his face, and Biff was stifled by a strong, pungent odor that completely overpowered him.
Biff's captor shoved him straight toward the leader of the safari, and the boy saw for the first time that the man in white wasn't Mr. Whitman.
With less trouble than he expected, the captor got his man sullenly on horseback, and gave him severely plain directions as to what not to do.
Nevertheless, the news of the appearance of Sassoon's captor spread.
Speke, who could scarcely breathe from the pain of the blow, asked a captor to tie his hands before, instead of behind, and begged a drop of water to relieve his excruciating thirst.
Although the other cub fought just as desperately, his captorseized him by the hind legs, dragged him backwards, occasionally swung him around his head, and kept him generally engaged until ropes were procured for binding him.
One of them made a fight so fierce and terrible that his nervouscaptor let him go, and that one is still on the Chilkoot.
Suddenly at midnight he was roughly awakened, muffled up as before, and carried away again by his captor on horseback.
When he arrived there, Willie addressed his captor in these words: "My hands are tied, but my tongue is free.
Here, however, Chumbley paused, and turned back to where his imperious captor was standing with flashing eyes.
Well, I am caught, but take care, my child, prisoners are dangerous sometimes, and rise and take the captor captive.
In accordance with the chivalrous spirit of that age, the captor and captive lived together on terms of the strictest friendship.
After a while his Captor was glad enough to sell him to a neighbour, who took him home and let his wings grow again.
At that moment, his captor carried him into a large chamber at the end of the corridor.
Walker, says his gallant comrade Lewis, made up his mind to be the captor of the wily old chief.
His captor bent close to the receiver as Tom replied, in order to overhear what was being said.
Tom's captor snatched the phone away and slammed it back on the hook.
He was wondering if he might persuade his captor to let him make a second call.
Evidently hiscaptor had not thought to remove it from the instrument.
He did not yield without a struggle; during which Gardenier, watching the action and the result, sprang forward, and with a blow from his spear leveled the captor to the dust and liberated his man.
It is a most interesting sight to see the excitement and flurry of the captor as it tries to drag along some huge prey to its nest.
Marco turned so that he could face his captor squarely as if he were going to say something in answer to her.
My hands were then full, for I had the bigger and stronger man to face--Pierre who had been my captor during the days when we wandered along the highway with the army of the King.
It was my only salvation, for once I could lose myself in the darkness of the woods my captor would have his own trouble in finding me.
My captor was beside himself from joy and bashfulness--joy, that he had been the lucky one to effect my capture, bashful, that he was made so much of by so great a person as De Marsac.
He seemed to be without a care in the world, but what amazed me most was that he was not naked, as I expected my captor to be, but fully clothed.
Before I drew half a dozen breaths I saw my captor rise to the surface far down the stream.
Surely I could make use of it, even if my captorhad his bow and arrows, if I chose a moment when he was off his guard.
Before the snow flies I shall be toasting my shins before the fire-place in your house," my captor boasted.
My captor had just shoved me across the threshold.
I held my breath so that no bubbles would arise and inform my captor where I was.
From where we had halted on the side of the road, my captor pointed at them with his finger.
It must be my captor who by some means that I could not puzzle out had lighted a fire.
One scheme after another came into my head, but I cast them all aside, for with his alertness and the quickness of his mind my captor had a hold on me as firm as chains.
In the tussle that followed, he kicked and writhed so vigorously that the cross-eyed captor howled with pain.
The swarthy captor dealt Hugh a hard thwack on the side of his head.
He did not know what her captor had revealed to her, and so never dreamed the truth, which was that Helen was thinking that for the second time he had fallen from the truth in his narrative.
My chief captor said it was an order, but that may have been a lie; and such wildly possible reasons that I can think of are so inherently improbable that it is difficult to entertain any of them.
Her gaze widened even more at Naginlta and Nalik'ideyu, and she deduced the bond which must exist between her captor and the beasts.
He felt she had expected another captor altogether and was astounded at the sight of him.
The outlaw, who had opened his eyes, looked with a scowl from his captor to the new-comer.
As the unfortunate Englishman hobbled away at the side of his captor a roar of laughter burst from both armies at the spectacle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "captor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
