I have, moreover, dipped into treatises on agriculture and on needlework, all of which I have found very profitable in aiding me to seize the great scheme of the Canon itself.
Hidden, vacuous--all day long he looked but could not see it, listened but could not hear it, grasped at but could not seize it.
With the help of two ships of war, lent him by the Crown, the Duke organized an expedition to seize the island.
The first is that the people have long been taught that Occidentals desire to seize and possess their land.
However, let us take no notice: he is here surrounded by his countrymen, who, if we were to seize him, might perhaps take his part.
At the expiration of that period I received information that my proceedings were known in Segovia, in which province Abades is situated, and that an order was about to be sent to the alcalde to seize all books in my possession.
Is it any crime, after a shipwreck, to seize whatever means or instrument of safety one can lay hold of, without regard to former limitations of property?
No, I have been thinking of that, and I have come to the conclusion that our best plan would be to seize him and hold a dagger to his heart, and threaten to kill him instantly if he did not accompany us.
Seize her also on a charge of harbouring an enemy of the state!
The simplest thing in the world, namely, that we should seize one of the leaders of these villains and compel him to sign an order for their release.
I have been terribly anxious, thinking that they might seizeyou too, and that would have been dreadful.
Could I not take Victor's place and help you to seize Marat?
I have chosen, as worthy of commemoration, the moment when and the method by which the Governor meant to seize the Treasury at Washington.
With that, he advanced a step towards me, and raised a hand to seize my arm, while the others followed behind.
They seemed, before my eyes, to seize upon the poor yellow fibres which were trying to imitate their own glow, and, winding themselves round them, I saw the shuttle gather these rays of sunlight into the meshes of its work.
O haste: for while your beauty flies I seize your full delight.
When I see childhood on the threshold seize The prize of life from age and likelihood, I mourn time's change that will not be withstood, Thinking how Christ said Be like one of these.
Her fainting strength forsook her; on her knees Down by the bed she sank; the shameless knife Fell flashing, and her heart took thought to seize Its desperate haft, and end her wicked life.
The information reached Dermot too late to enable him to seize the man on the tea-estate.
Already the great beast's uncurled trunk was stretched out to seize its prey.
Before he himself knew it he was standing on the overhang and had shifted his hold to seize the fellow about the waist; then, lifting him clear of the deck, and aided by a lurch of the cat-boat, he cast him bodily into the dory.
Let the nation put that reflection in its pipe and smoke it day by day; for only so shall we emerge from a bad dream and seize again on our birthright.
We must seize on this one precious chance of restoring the land and guaranteeing our future.
Seeing her disappearing the tiger thought to seize her, but as she kept her eyes on him he could only say "Hullo, what is the matter?
The fawn did not move and he managed to seize it and pulling it out of the mud, he rubbed it clean and put his bow string round its neck and took it home.
How eagerly will the poetic imaginationseize on a word like "control," which gives scope by its very vagueness, and is fettered by no partiality of association.
All means and modes offered them by language they seize on greedily, and shape them to this one end; they ransack the vocabulary of new sciences, and appropriate or invent strange jargons.
He had arrived, too, in the nick of time, to seize and place on his own brows the wreath that had been twined for him by the Lost Legion and their leader.
It is no great service you ask; and if they seize upon me as an escaped slave, and condemn me to the cross, what then?
The vessels found there should be destroyed; and as the enemy usually leave at Conanicut Island a body of from six to fifteen hundred men, we might easily seize it, and make our land rendezvous there.
But in the company of such happy people I felt that my anxious spirit was out of place, and I tried to cast off my forebodings and to seize from the image of Mona present in my memory a portion of her own cheer and hope.
For some years she defied the Islamites; but at last Zeid, one of the principal Moslem leaders, was despatched to seize her castle.
The latter made himself so troublesome to the Parliament that they determined to seize Wardour Castle, his mansion.
I seize upon that story again to threaten him with, if he does not tell where he got the money.
Maybe I can surprise them while they eat and rush in and seize one.
A great shark had seen him and had thrown himself on his back to seize him in his rows of sharp teeth, but was prevented reaching him by the shallowness of the water.
It is our mission to seize the mind, soul, countenance of things and beings.
These reflections in the writers of the transactions of the times, seize the noddles of such as were not born to have thoughts of their own, and consequently lay a weight upon everything which they read in print.
Some weeks after, an officer of justice, in attempting to seize the criminal, fired upon him, as did the criminal upon the officer.
Leaving them, Sully rode to the Bastille, which he took possession of, and sent out soldiers to seize and carry off all the bread that could be found in the market and at the shops of the bakers.
It was pretty well fortified, and likely to prove a point of danger to the district if the enemy should seize it and make it a centre of their plundering raids.
