Along the sides are grouped old Austrian banners, standards taken from the French, and horsetails and flags captured from the Turks.
Above them all, in a brighter air, I lift my forehead proud and bare, And the lengthened sweep of my forest-robe Trails down to the low and captured globe, Till its borders touch the dark green wave In whose soundless depths my feet I lave.
Criminals, or prisonerscaptured in war, are not considered fitting subjects.
This went on till daybreak, when he called out his neighbours, who captured the thief, and handed him over to the police.
Others reached the ships, and escaped by sea, or werecaptured and put to death.
A girl about twelve or thirteen years old was captured a few years ago in the Mysore State at the Oregam weekly market, and, on being searched, was found to have a small knife in her cheek.
Acting under the orders of the magistrates, the Manchester Yeomanry and the hussars, with drawn swords, dashed through the crowd in the direction of the temporary platform, where they captured Henry Hunt and others.
To get possession of this a sally was made, and after some smart fighting it was captured and dragged within the walls.
I captured the nearest one with the flashlight beam, went up to it and turned it on.
I told the Governor that his men would be capturedunless they were called back at once; and Smith, who undertook the duty in person, was just in time.
One Federal was captured and his horse given to the bruised man, who congratulated the rider on his promotion to a respectable service.
Having exhausted his powers of persuasion to no purpose, Major Brent threw some men ashore, surrounded a gang of negroes at work, captured the number necessary, and departed.
Jackson himself was engaged in forwarding captured stores to Staunton.
Walker rapidly advanced to the village of Richmond, midway between the Tensas and Mississippi, some twelve miles from each, where he surprised and captured a small Federal party.
On the 3d he captured the transport City Belle, on her way up to Alexandria, with the 120th Ohio regiment on board.
Longstreet and Hill fought into the night, held a large part of the field, and captured many prisoners (including General McCall) and guns, but their own loss was severe.
The enemy succeeded in crossing Grand Lake by means of rafts, and surprised and captured the garrison, consisting of about three hundred men.
The remainder of the crew had passed through the forest to the captured steamer below, embarked, and made off down river.
The senior general west of the Mississippi, Holmes, was in Arkansas, where he had accomplished nothing except to lose five thousand of his best troops, captured at Arkansas Post by General Sherman.
The towered clouds, Lofty, impregnable, are captured now-- Their turrets flame with banners.
At 6:45, the sound of cheering was heard amidst the din of the battle and a few moments later, the message was sent back that the American troops had captured the great German position.
On lower levels they have captured Gorizia, a feat unparalleled by any thus far accomplished by the English and French on the West.
He said the enemy had captured nine of our elephants at Allum Bagh.
Beyond a doubt, Henry thought, here was a hobby that had captured Harry as nothing else ever had.
They built the altar themselves, and among the captured soldiers are three French priests.
To-day we capturedso much ammunition that Russia would be in a bad way for more, were it not for America.
And as we left behind the last squalid house of Augustowo I saw a squad of smiling soldiers crowding around a captured Russian field kitchen.
Pages and cover of the English staff books captured at the battle of Mons.
It was a lay-out of actresses and bicycle riders and it struck you as incongruous until you remembered that the trench had been captured from the French.
In the captured fortresses at Namur, Luettich (Liege), and Antwerp, we found stores of French guns and ammunition.
On their heels for more than a mile, he finally attacked them, although outnumbered three to one, and captured them.
Never, not even in the captured French and Belgium cities that I later saw, did I gain the impression of such intense watchfulness as prevailed at Metz.
For I noticed that there were pictures of captured Russian guns, of General Hindenburg, of the victorious German troops entering Lodz.
Not two months before I had been riding down Fifth Avenue on the roof of a slumbering bus; to-day I was speeding in a German car through captured France.
The Romans held their fortress for five hundred years until Leovigild in 586 capturedit after a long and strenuous siege.
Reus, a railway centre a few miles inland, hascaptured a great deal of Tarragona's trade, and modern history repeats itself once more.
In the chapel of Santiago hangs a copy of the embroidered banner captured at the great fight of Las Navas de Tolosa, a victory which crippled and drove out the Infidel from the north.
The Emir of Cordova capturedit in 714 and Valencia remained a vassal state until the fall of the Omayeh dynasty.
But Tom Slade was not vain and it is doubtful if his stolid face, crowned by his shock of rebellious hair, would have shown the slightest symptom of excitement if he hadcaptured Hindenburg, or the Kaiser himself.
For upwards of an hour they remained close by, until the hogsheads had run dry, and then they set out through the woods for the captured village.
My impression is that he's in the army and hopes to get himself captured by his friends.
A warrior of mettle was Major von Piffinhoeffer, who deserved a more glorious fate than to be captured by an American dispatch-rider!
So if the feller expects to go to the front and get captured pretty soon, prob'ly he's in a special unit.
Old Piff nearly threw a fit, I heard, when he found out that he was captured by a kid in the messenger service," another added.
In a few moments he returned with such a glow on his countenance and such a satisfied air at having captured a rare but familiar specimen, whose name was on his lips, that we both felt "Surely here is a genuine naturalist.
He hadcaptured a rattlesnake, and, in trying to introduce it into a jar filled with alcohol, the snake managed to bite him on the hand.
Captured by Admiral Kirk in 1628, he refused to serve as an interpreter, and soon after escaped.
If we were captured by the Hiroquois, perhaps we would be obliged to suffer this ordeal, inasmuch as we live with the Montagnards, their enemies.
On the 19th, the snow being already very deep, the Savages capturedeight elks or moose.
He minutely examined one of these, as well as several village sites and earthworks, in the immediate neighborhood of St. Louis, at which town Brébeuf and Lalemant were captured in 1649.
Got the express money back, capturedone of the robbers, forced a confession out of him, and left him with the sheriff.
One of the robbers was captured and made a full confession.
It is said that the original copper plates of his works were captured by a British man-of-war during the Napoleonic conflict.
Nevertheless, he has captured the affections of the rebels and is their god.
He had a feeling for those formal gardens which have captured within their enclosure a moiety of nature's unstudied ease.
Here Billy amused us by catching Wiskajons in an old-fashioned springle that dated from the days when guns were unknown; but the captured birds came back fearlessly each time after being released.
The first time he threw he captured the big fellow.
Later hecaptured three smaller ones in the same place, but evidently there were no more.
He shot her dead; then captured the young and examined the nest; there were three young this time.
Neither, in my opinion, would to-day have been above the commonest walks of life unless I, or some one else, had captured him.
He did not wait for an answer, however, but stormed Pensacola, captured it, and then hastened to New Orleans, where he expected the next attack would be made.
When it was reported in the papers that the boat had been captured by pirates, Burr said, "No, no, she is indeed dead.
Indeed, the English hadcaptured that city already, and burned most of its public buildings.
Whilst accompanying a convoy of rifles presented by the Egyptian Government in 1886 to Sheikh Saleh of the friendly Kabbabish tribe, Neufeld had been captured by a party of dervishes.
The little paddle steamer captured from the dervishes during the 1896 Dongola Expedition, which had been repaired and sent to Dakhala, was continually carrying troops and stores from the east to the west bank.
A captured city in the Soudan not to be given over to the victorious troops to do with as they liked!
The Abyssinians, however, killed and captured over 200 of the dervish leader's followers, and returned in triumph with the captives and spoils.
For two days there was a sale of the loot captured by the army.
Neither of the horses was worth what I paid for their hire; it is true their master risked their being captured by the bands of robbers from whom I providentially escaped.
The grand defect of Gomez is not knowing how to take advantage of circumstances; after his defeat of Lopez he might have marched to Madrid and proclaimed Don Carlos there, and after sacking Cordova, he might have captured Seville.
Castile is at the present time in the hands of the Carlists, who have captured and plundered Valladolid, in much the same manner as they did Segovia.
In half a moment Abe Lincoln and Harry had got up and captured the man and the loosed horse.
For fear that he would be captured he clapped it into his mouth.
His fine manners and handsome form and face captured the little village, most of whose inhabitants had come from Kentucky.
One night Abe Lincoln and certain of his friends captured a shoe-maker who had beaten his wife and held him at the village pump while the aggrieved woman gave him a sound thrashing.
When the ship was captured he said: "I didn't want to be a pirate, but there was only one kind o' politics on that ship and the majority was so large I thought that the vote might as well be unanimous.
The fair Annabel knowing not the power that lay in her beauty had captured his young heart scarcely fifteen years of age.
But boldness breeds boldness, and shortly I plunged into a Vineyard, in the full light of the moon, and captured a gallon of superb grapes, not even minding the presence of a peasant who rode by on a mule.
Gibraltar has stood several protracted sieges, one of them of nearly four years' duration (it failed), and the English only captured it by stratagem.
A party of filibusters from Zorah and Eschol captured the place, and lived there in a free and easy way, worshiping gods of their own manufacture and stealing idols from their neighbors whenever they wore their own out.
It almost warrants the enthusiasm of the spies of that rabble of adventurers who captured Dan.
Spain chastised the Moors five or six years ago, about a disputed piece of property opposite Gibraltar, and captured the city of Tetouan.
The old Negro explained that Brown was an Abolitionist, and was captured here and later killed.
Instead of being given their liberty, some several hundred horses and ponies were captured to be used in transporting the Indians away from the valley.
He said it was captured and lived about four months in captivity but its wing never healed.
Malvina Gardner was not yet twelve years of age when she was captured by the Indians and was scarcely thirteen years of age when she became the mother of Joseph William, son of the uncivil Indian, "Buck".
An Indian called "Buck" captured her and by all the laws of the tribe was his own property.
That he is not a strict vegetarian appears to be proved by the fact that he is sometimes captured in rat-traps that have been baited with meat.
When captured it seldom makes any attempt at biting, though it will hiss freely and snap its jaws.
On being capturedthey are always ready to bite; but in a state of freedom the Viper is not the aggressive monster that is popularly supposed.
Formerly, it was not considered a native of Scotland, but in recent years several examples have been captured there.
It is so delicately organised that it has been found that detention in a trap for only a few minutes is fatal to it; and captured specimens that have been carried in the hand for a few hundred yards have died shortly after.
In this country it is occasionally captured in the act of robbing household stores, but in more northern regions, as in Norway and the Yukon, it is a constant inhabitant of houses.
The young are exceedingly pretty and are easily tamed; though a captured adult is savage and untameable.
We have reliable knowledge of one that was captured when about a foot in length (probably five or six years old), fifteen years ago, which is still healthy and active.
Doubleday, one of three captured at Leyton, Essex, in the same condition.
Prior to the year 1853 British specimens had been regarded as mere variations of the Grass Snake, but in that year it was captured by Mr. F.
British Bats, but on the strength of only two specimens capturedin this country, in the "thirties" of last century.
In spite of strong counter-attacks on the Briqueterie and Montauban, by midday on July 2 our troops had captured Fricourt, and in the afternoon and evening stormed Fricourt Wood and the farm to the north.
Near Huj a fine charge by some squadrons of the Worcester and Warwick Yeomanry captured 12 guns, and broke the resistance of a hostile rearguard.
But by about noon London troops had already advanced over two miles, and were swinging north-east to gain the Nablus-Jerusalem road; while the Yeomanry had captured the Beit Iksa spur, and were preparing for a further advance.
Tel el Saba was found strongly held by the enemy, and was not captured till late in the afternoon.
In the centre of our attack Bazentin-le-Grand village and wood were also gained, and our troops pushing northward captured Bazentin-le-Petit village and the cemetery to the east.
The London troops, after a severe engagement at Tel el Sheria, which they captured by a bayonet charge at 4 a.
On March 6 two divisions stormed the villages of Forges and Regnéville, and attacked the woods of Corbeaux on the Côte de l'Oie, which they captured on the 10th.
Arrow Head Copse, between the southern edge of Trones Wood and Guillemont, and Waterlot Farm on the Longueval-Guillemont road, were seized, and Delville Wood was captured and held against several hostile counterattacks.
To effect this, however, strong enemy positions had to be captured both by ourselves and by our allies.
On these dates, despite all the difficulties of ground, the French first reached and then captured the villages of Sailly-Saillisel, but the moment for decisive action was rapidly passing away, while the weather showed no signs of improvement.
The enemy's second main system of defense had beencaptured on a front of over three miles.
He was glad to get the meat and skin of the bear and also the two little cubs, which he easily captured alive.
Had the rebels advanced against Allahabad before the outbreak, they might have captured the fortress, and blocked out all reinforcements from Bengal.
A British expedition was sent to the Persian Gulf under Sir James Outram, and captured Bushire.
Altogether John Lawrence was convinced that Delhi must be captured at all hazards, and that it was absolutely necessary to retire from Peshawar.
The Nawab had captured the settlement at Calcutta; and a hundred and twenty-three English prisoners had been thrust into a barrack cell, and perished most miserably of heat and suffocation.
In 1738 Nadir Shah captured Candahar, invaded the Punjab, and entered Delhi in triumph.
They set fire to the native bazaar, and, after meeting obstinate resistance, they captured the batteries and breastworks in the avenues.
He overran the valley and captured the fortress of Attock; and he determined that whatever might happen, he would hold Peshawar for the future against Sikh or Englishman.
Other fugitive women and children had been captured by Nana Sahib, and 200 helpless beings had been imprisoned in the same building.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "captured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
