Those hellish people that are seized and possessed by the devils of Egotism, are blinded in their self-delusion and giddiness; and are unbefriended by their fellows and friends, as they are unfriendly to others in this world.
The simpleton that is seized by the devil of Egoism, is made as fuel to the fire of hell (where he is doomed to burn with ceaseless torment).
The man that is seized by the voracious yaksha of his own mind, has no change of his release from his grasp, either by the lessons of the sastras or by the advice of his friends, relatives and preceptors.
As the enemy overran his territories and kingdom, and seized his royal palace and properties; he girt himself in his undergarb, and went away beyond the limits of his kingdom.
They then seized Lewis himself at Compiègne, and their hated step-mother Judith on the rock of Laon.
The boy was presently thrown into the river, the miller was seized by the throat, and compelled by threats of instant death to loose the ships.
The whole kingdom was seized with fear and trembling, which Pan Ch`ao took steps to allay by issuing a public proclamation.
Ch`iang having found a refuge in the hills, Ma Yuan made no attempt to force a battle, but seized all the favorable positions commanding supplies of water and forage.
A riot of banter seized upon all of them, and they began to laugh and destroy.
Loomis, beating the rising flame away, had seized the pistol from the shelf, and aimlessly fired into the night at Toussaint.
It is exactly for that reason I must speak with you," said she, firmly; and at the same instant she seized my arm and drew me into a room, of which she closed the door at once.
By this time, the contagion of terror had so completelyseized upon me that I yielded myself to the impulse of the moment, and, taking the direction they pointed out, I fled along the path beneath the garden wall at full speed.
Of what followed after the event detailed in my last chapter I can relate nothing, for I was seizedwith shivering and other signs of fever that same night, and for several weeks my life was despaired of.
That same night she was seized with fever; the benevolent but simple people about her knew not what to do; the nearest medical aid was many miles off; and when it did arrive, on the following morning, the malady had already attacked the brain.
In retaliation for this outrage, the Twightwees, * a body of Indians friendly to the English, seized some French traders, and sent them to Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Merrill seized her only feather-bed, ripped it open, and east the contents upon the fire.
Randolph was instantly seizedby the captain, when a number of his friends, who accompanied him, rescued him, and bore him to the wharf.
General Howe, while in Philadelphia, seized and kept for his own use Mary Pemberton's coach and horses, in which he used to ride about town.
Laborers were seized in the fields and work-shops, and large numbers were taken from the churches while engaged in their devotions, and hurried to the barracks without being allowed a parting embrace with their families.
On their way down they landed at Colonel Kirk-bride's farm, on the Pennsylvania side, burned his buildings, and seized considerable property.
Despair seizedthe troops, and every effort to rally them was, for a time, vain.
While some English traders were engaged in their vocation near the present site of Pittsburgh, they were seized by some French and Indians, and conveyed to Presque Isle, now the town of Erie, on the lake of that name.
These, the most prominent men among the Regulators, were seized and cast into Hillsborough jail.
How shall I find a name for that subtle feeling which seizedhold upon me this morning in the twilight of waking?
This afternoon a homicidal languorseized hold upon me--disgust, weariness of life, mortal sadness.
Well, suspect, come over here under the grating and let me take a good look at your face," and he seized Gaillard roughly by the arm.
Then with a tigerlike spring La Liberte dashed forward, seized Edme about the waist with one arm, while she endeavored to secure the parchment with her other hand.
Then, suddenly flinging aside the torn paper, she rushed forward and seized Edme's arm.
Springing from his horse he fastened him to a sapling by the wayside, seized his pistols from his holsters, and hurried forward on foot.
Under these instructions the provisional collector seized several bags of gold, in the house of a prominent enemy.
I cannot doubt, that, if a slave should be seized under process of the United States, he would be taken to Freedom, and not to Slavery, for the simple reason that the nation cannot own a slave.
At least three churches here in Washington have been seized and occupied for the same purpose.
Pretending amity, theyseized the teamsters' guns and fired upon their hosts.
Sirrine, who had had police experience in the East, was of large assistance to Brannan in San Francisco, where the rougher element for a time seized control, taking property at will and shooting down all who might disagree with their sway.
He leapt from his couch, seized his undutiful son by his yellow curls, and laid him lifeless upon the plain.
Then a great storm arose; the waves lashed up the shore to the blue stone on which Sadko sat, and great terror seized upon the heart of the minstrel so that he returned to Novgorod in haste and disquiet.
Then Prince Vladimir seized the occasion to make a great wedding-feast, which lasted with intervals for resting for the full space of three days.
Then he seized Nikitich by his right hand and Alyosha by his left and shouted in a heroic voice, "Why fight against each other, ye heroes of Holy Russia?
Then quiet Dunai took one light leap over the King's golden chair, seized one of the stout attendants by the heels, and using him as a club, began to slay the rest.
As soon as he was gone, Marina seized her dagger, and from the clay floor of the apartment she hacked out the footprints of Nikitich.
Then without more ado, he seized the fair Princess Zenira by the middle and flung her upon the bed of yew wood against the wall.
Without delay the pitiless headsmen bore down upon Dunai andseized him by the shoulders.
Then Whirlwind came forward and held out his arms to embrace the mother of Ivan, but with a quick movement the heroic youth stretched out his hand and seized his club.
Then Nikita seized her by the hair, and she was ready enough to make all kinds of promises to win her freedom.
But the two brothers ran forward, seized the linen, pulled it and tore it away.
We continued daily to gather mussels till the 5th, when several of the people being seized with fluxes, the surgeon desired that no more mussels might be brought into the ship.
A daring Revenue officer having suddenly come upon him, Jack and his companions seized the unfortunate man, and kept him fast bound until they had removed all their merchandise.
During the ascent one of the party was seized with a paralytic fit.
Captain Truck, who having seized an axe, followed by the rest of the crew, was cutting away at the stranger's bowsprit rigging.
No sooner did he hear Jack's voice than overboard he sprang, striking out towards our cousin, who was on the point of sinking, being seized with cramp.
The impulse seized me, and I could not resist it," I said.
The crew had seized their oars, and were already giving way.
In one instant the crew leapt on board, and, seized by a sudden impulse, I too sprang up the side, and slid down into the bottom of the boat.
Dick and me and the crew, while he himself seized the helm, making the helmsman throw himself flat on his back.
The opportunity was a grand one for Madam Becca, and she seized upon it.
Therefore, the only time to be seized upon was after six o'clock, when the Rose of Delhi was left to herself and her watchman for the night, and the dock-gates were shut.
She glided into the room behind Thomas and his big tea-tray, seized upon a cup at once, and stood with it as coolly as though she had never been away.
Leaping the gate into the lane, we reached the front-door, and seized the bell-handle.
Tom disclaimed all knowledge of it; and Stephen Radcliffe seized upon Francis, beating him shamefully.
All I can tell you is, that when his mother received that letter from William last month, saying his return was delayed, a sort of foreboding seized hold of me, an apprehension that he would never come.
But it doesn't come, and even the money I've expected from the 'Capital' for my story is seized by its creditors.
The surprising quickness with which he seized and assimilated any new form of dialect was a kind of dramatic capacity.
In San Francisco, especially, a kind of pleasant madness seized upon every newcomer.
The moment when this strange planet first swam into Bret Harte's ken seems to have been seizedand recorded with accuracy by his friend, Mr. Noah Brooks.
Where the grass was comparatively sparse a little lizard, upon whose bronze head the sunlight glistened, sighted on a chip a lumbering "March" fly dreaming of blood, and with a dash that almost eluded observationseized and shook it.
The leaf was seized close to the stalk, which was deftly inserted, then it was gripped a trifle farther back and pushed and re-gripped, the process being repeated rapidly until nothing but the tip remained visible.
The other day I happened on one which had seized a fish about four inches long, and seemed to be greedily sucking it to death.
When you give them the horn, they are seized with the belief that you are trying to play the prelude to "Lohengrin," and they run up and down in front of the car in extreme agitation.
Dropping his heavy suitcase anyways, he seized my hand within his own huge paw and squeezed it till the tears came to my eyes.
Then it seized a pair of shears and set to work clipping solid pages from books and magazines.
Seven ladies in the parquette were grasping the arms of their chairs, and three women in the upper balcony had seized the arms of their escorts, as the brasses crashed once and died out.
The city and the day's task have seized upon them and passed them through the same set of rollers and pressed out their differences and transformed them into a single mass of weary human material.
Cannon planted both of his feet on the medium's left foot and seized his left hand in both his own.
First it seized a pair of paint brushes and began to paint all the white objects in the room black and all the black objects white.
With that last sentence Philip has seized me hip and thigh and hurled me into an emotional whirlpool, where chills and thrills rapidly succeed each other.
He sprang up, seized Richard's photograph, which stood on the escritoire in a frame, and brought it close to the light of the shaded lamp.
Yet in the midst of her planning and scheming a sudden disgust of herself and what she was going to do seized her, and shattered with one blow the whole fabric of intended deception.
He seized the picture, blew the dust off it adjusted his easel, laughing and chuckling to himself.
He looked round him bewildered, like one who had been walking in his sleep, seized his hat, and rushed out of the room.
In the coupe, as she sat beside him, another attack of terrorseized her.
Seized with fright, she first thought of going down to Fraeulein von Schwertfeger.
Confronted by this abominable farce, enacted solely with the object of deceiving her, Lilly was seized with such mad, accusing fury that she was rendered almost senseless.
They cannot bear to pain either of us by absenting themselves," And she seized and patted the hands of the girls sitting on either side of her, and all three exchanged looks of rapturous affection.
She was againseized with laughter as with an illness.
In a few seconds he came up with her, seized her bridle, and with a dexterous jerk brought both horses to a standstill.
Then she felt herself roughly seized by his hands.
It was all in vain; my back was to the cowardly crew when they rose; but even then I should have seized a laggard had I sprung a few hairs higher, for the tip of my muzzle actually touched his cold webbed foot.
A few seconds later I saw the other otter glide noiselessly away, and then a great fear seized me as I realized that I was left alone with the hound.
Rising close to him, I seized his neck through the thick coat of feathers that protected it, and hung on.
Before this I was on the point of bolting; but now fear seized my limbs and I could not rise, could only crouch closer and closer to the earth like my sisters.
In all my experiences I have only once witnessed anything that took me more by surprise; and from that night I have never swum across to the island without fear of being seized by the grim monster which I now knew tenanted the pool.
On the few occasions when I was on the point of succeeding she seized me between her velvety lips and put me back in my place between my two little sisters.
Springing forward, I seizedthe rifle he had dropped.
When we had chatted for upwards of an hour I bade him good-night, and went below to my cabin to fall asleep and dream that Fernandez had seized the boat and was going to make me walk the plank at daylight.
At the thought an icy pang of apprehension and fear seized her, and her heart almost stopped beating.
She was not conscious of it at the time--only of the dull ache, and feverish longing, and utter apathy that seized her by turns.
That first wave of fear which had seized upon the nobles had swept many of them out of France to Turin, to Frankfort, to Metz, to Coblentz, and to London.
But though she smiled, a curious foreboding and a sort of fearseized upon her.
Sheridan "went in" with his usual impetuosity, and seized Five Forks.
It was first violated by the rebels, who failed to sound the notes of indignation when Bishop General Polk marched his army into the state and seized upon Hickman and Columbus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: affected; ascertained; assumed; comprehended; conceived; realized; recognized; understood
