One cask of sixteen hundred measures is half lost; the plate and the linen are carried off.
Two children of that quarter have disappeared, carried off by gipsies, and the report is current that M.
At Laon, "the people have sworn to die rather than let their food be carried off.
Foulon is carried off; dragged across the square, and hung to the lamp post.
In the first campaign the Count of Montfort was made prisoner at the siege of Nantes, carried off to Paris, and shut up in the tower of the Louvre, whence he did not escape until three years were over.
It is said that the deed, in virtue of which you caused the worthy ecclesiastic's furniture to be carried off, is false, and you are blamed for having made the highest body of the State a stepping-stone to crime.
In the same year I found good fortune at Naples; at Florence I carried off a girl; and, the following year, I was to attend the Congress at Augsburg, charged with a commission from the King of Portugal.
A visit to a dancer, a brute professing to be a nobleman, who insults her in my presence, who wants to kill her, who allows her to be carried off in his very teeth, and whose only opposition is to give me an appointment!
Every night they stole into their camp, murdered officers in their tents, carried off horses, slew sentries, and kept the enemy in a perpetual state of watchfulness.
It wouldn't matter if we had a good steady old crew, but more than half of them have been pressed; many of them are landsmen who have been carried off just as you were.
I may be carried off to-morrow by the Plague, or my son may renew his attempt with success.
He had been kidnapped, carried off, taken out in a boat to some craft anchored in the river, and was now in the hold.
The accused person is carried off to prison, often without knowing the crime he is accused of, or his accusers.
Ernst trembled at the thought of again getting into the power of the priest, and kept carefully with his friends, lest by any chance he might be carried off.
Some Anabaptists or other heretics have been holding one of their assemblies in this house, and have all been seized, and are about to be carried off to prison," answered the sergeant of the guard.
Suppose however that one of these owners and his household is carried off by a god into a wilderness, where there are no freemen to help him--will he not be in an agony of terror?
And on similar grounds there should be a limit to the devastation of Hellenic territory--the houses should not be burnt, nor more than the annual produce carried off.
It was said to have belonged to the ancient Attic hero Academus, who, when the Dioscuri invaded Attica to recover their sister Helen, carried off by Theseus, revealed the place where she was hidden.
The troops were in good health, but one unfortunate man had been carried off by a crocodile while sitting on the vessel with his legs hanging over the side.
Many of the women and children had been carried off by a neighbouring tribe, called the Berri, on the east of the Nile.
The "Forty Thieves" did not require a fort, but the cattle might be carried off by a sudden rush that would induce a stampede unless they were well secured.
This did not seem very generous, but his cattle had been mostly carried off by the slave-hunters under Suleiman.
Some prefer it because the fumes of cooking can be carried off; but stoves properly arranged accomplish this equally well.
In the capillaries, too, the decayed matter is carried off faster, and then the stomach calls for more food to furnish new and pure blood.
The remainder is carried off by the kidneys and lower intestines.
He had an enchanted horse, made of wood, with which he carried off Valentine, Orson and Clerimond from the dungeon of Ferrăgus.
He singles out one, when an arrow from Love’s bow stretches him fainting on the ground, and he is carried off.
He carried off Una to the wilderness, but when the fauns and satyrs came to her rescue, he saved himself by flight.
It is probable that the old men were carried off by the plague, while the young, who had more strength, resisted its power, which circumstance would fully account for the active habits of the remaining subjects of Æacus.
The greatest part is carried off by the water: those whom the water spares, long fastings overcome, through scantiness of food.
If you should choose to compare the face and the manners of the two, she was the more worthy to be carried off.
The fair Ellen of Young Lochinvar' was willing to be carried off, and Odalite is not, which makes all the difference, you know!
And Odalite took off the two ladies and the three children to the warm dressing room to lay off their wraps, while Le carried off Roland to his own den, to brush his hair.
I ain't very good at writing," said the guest, allowing herself to be carried off by Wynnette.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carried off" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
