Had poor Sir Brian Newcome's seizure occurred at an earlier period of the autumn, his illness no doubt would have kept him for some months confined at Baden; but as he was pretty nearly the last of Dr.
In 1911 Italian ambitions similarly provoked a dangerous threat to international peace by the seizure from the Ottoman empire of what is now Libya.
The circumstances of his seizure and escape from death are better described in his own words.
Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine Worth seizure do we seize into our hands, Till thou canst quit thee by thy brother's mouth Of what we think against thee.
O, that her hand, In whose comparison all whites are ink Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure The cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of sense Hard as the palm of ploughman!
In 1914 the continued insurrectionary conditions in Mexico led to the seizure of the custom house at Vera Cruz by a United States fleet, resulting in an American loss of eighteen marines killed and seventy wounded.
Seizure of the girdle of the queen of the Amazons.
A writ to authorize the seizure of a defendant’s person (legal).
This led to a naval demonstration on the part of the Venetians, who secured better terms for their trade, and to the seizure of Egyptian vessels by the king of Aragon and the prince of Catalonia.
On the seizure of Deira by AEthelfrith of Bernicia (probably 605), Edwin was expelled and is said to have taken refuge with Cadfan, king of Gwynedd.
The plan of operations contemplated the seizure of Ismailia as the base for an advance on Cairo, Alexandria and its suburbs to be held defensively, and the Egyptian forces in the neighbourhood to be occupied by demonstrations.
The reasons that existed elsewhere for seizure do not exist with us.
Their successful seizureof West Florida had fired their ambition and their cupidity.
We take the brief history of his seizure from Peter's own narrative.
This view was sustained by the enemy's seizure of Newport, in December of the same year, so that the Americans were perplexed at finding themselves threatened from this quarter, until the enemy's plans were fully developed.
The prompt seizure of the lake fortresses had a marked effect upon the wavering Canadians.
Thus having escaped from seizure and dispersion, this noble collection remained in the hands of those who priced it as a valueless incumbrance, and yet seem to have respected the object of the enterprise, for they preserved it entire.
The Governor on the next day allowed Cuffe to anchor in the harbor but could not secure him againstseizure by a man-of-war.
The curse of a long line of ancestors will be upon you if you tamely submit--not make these Americans suffer for their seizure of this, our rightful land--our beautiful California!
Here follows a repetition of the facts with regard to the seizure of the Navy by the Federal authorities, and the establishment of the blockade of the Southern ports, already stated in my letter to the Governor of Cienfuegos.
This correspondence between the Governor and the Duke had not yet been made public, and it was supposed that the seizure had been made by order of Lord John Russell.
The seizure of the Surprise was a mere blind, intended to satisfy England.
The conduct of the campaign by Japan against Kiao-chou occasioned strong protests by Germany against the landing of troops in Shantung outside the Kiao-chou zone, and also against the seizure of the German railroad in the Province.
Protests were made by the Federal Government against the seizure of grain cargoes destined for Swiss use and against an alleged violation of Swiss territory during the air raid on Friedrichshafen (Nov.
At the end of the year the United States Government made a temperate protest against the British detention of American ships and seizure of cargo on them (Dec.
Some temporary difficulty arose in October through the seizure by British cruisers of ships belonging to the Standard Oil Corporation.
Long before the First Lord's speech the danger of a seizure of the guns and stores had been pointed out, and the operation was purely protective, and was over.
As for instance, in 1659, the seizureof a Dutch ship called the Vrede by a French captain under the pretense of a Swedish commission.
It may have seemed to Downing that there was less excuse for the seizure of Cape Verde than for the other places.
Finally he seized the Dutch factory at Anta, on the ground that it was commanded by the former captain of the "Christiana," one of the Dutch ships designated for seizure in the king's instructions.
To be sure, his piratical seizureof free Negroes broke all the rules of honorable dealing long recognized on the African coast.
The seizure of ships by the Dutch had been a matter of much apprehension to all the traders on the coast, but from now on it mainly concerned the Royal Adventurers.
After the seizure and trial of the Duc d' Enghien, some doubts existed with Napoleon whether even the soldiers of his Italian guard would fire at this Prince.
In a pecuniary point of view alone our citizens have sustained heavy losses from theseizure and closing of the transit route by the San Juan between the two oceans.
Heretofore a seizure of the capital by a military chieftain has been generally followed by at least the nominal submission of the country to his rule for a brief period, but not so at the present crisis of Mexican affairs.
The seizure of this property, from all appearances, has been purely aggressive, and not in resistance to any attempt to coerce a State or States to remain in the Union.
Vessels of the United States have been seized without law, and a consular officer who protested against such seizure has been fined and imprisoned for disrespect to the authorities.
This was evinced in the seizure of a dozen or two cotton handkerchiefs, which, unknown to myself, happened to bear the stamp of the 'masonic carpet.
The seizure of Brille had not been authorised by William of Orange, who was not yet prepared for active operations, nor was it intended at first to be more than a temporary raid.
It is well understood that the seizureof the Florida was wrong only with respect to Brazil, and not with respect to the Rebel enemy.
In the seizure of their books and papers, which are still detained, although regarded by their eminent counsel as important to their defence.
Though she lost the best of her faculties, Mrs. Ray did not succumb to the paralytic seizure occasioned by the twofold shock which she had experienced.
He had also learned something of the paralytic seizurewhich the disaster had occasioned.
Then there was the certainty that conviction on such a charge would include the seizure of the property.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seizure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
