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Sentences starting with capture

Capture the admiral's ship and we can play the devil with the rest of them. [11]
Capture of Vicksburg confirmed by despatch from General Grant himself. [7]

Sentences ending with capture

Some of these, when the drafting came, had fled in bands to the mountain and defied capture. [9]
In the morning we broke camp and started off for the strange place which we hoped to capture. [9]
There was a small log raft there which they meant to capture. [5]
He tried the same experiment, in the open air, with a swallow and T. fimbria; but the large size of this moth probably interfered with its capture. [1]
He searched the pockets, but instead of the purse, found only a few large silver coins, which he knew he had not possessed at the time of his capture. [10]
Will you not, Miss Louisa, assist me in my capture? [5]
In our own marriages the "best man" seems originally to have been the chief abettor of the bridegroom in the act of capture. [1]
So the cannon-balls lay on the sandy plain before Fort Fisher after the capture. [4]
And I used it to good advantage in saving the drum from capture. [9]
He was seated in a little open space on the bank, apparently careless of capture. [9]

More example sentences with the word capture in them

The best capture wouldn't be worth a drachm if we could not say, 'Hurrah! [10]
Some of us would have been killed, but--" He then told what had been in his mind, and what might be the outcome-- the killing or capture of the whole group, and safety for all at Salem. [11]
The Cossack officers wished to take advantage of this chance to capture some horses, but one of the superior officers, who was acquainted with the higher authorities, reported the incident to a general on the staff. [2]
It was my whim to capture him and take him on a journey--such a journey as he would go but once. [11]
To capture her was an easy task. [10]
While ordering the waiter to bring him a mug of beer, Captain Allertssohn appeared with Junker von Warmond, who had taken part in the consultation at Peter Van der Werff's, and bravely earned his captain's sash two years before at the capture of Brill. [10]
While I am very anxious that any great disaster or capture of our men in great number shall be avoided, I know that these points are less likely to escape your attention than they would be mine. [7]
Everybody praised the valor and magnanimity of Sir Launcelot; and as for me, I was perfectly amazed, that one man, all by himself, should have been able to beat down and capture such battalions of practiced fighters. [5]
He intended to use this invention in the capture of St. Louis, exploding his torpedoes over the city, and raining destruction upon it until the army of occupation would gladly capitulate. [5]
The Commissioner was uncertain what to do, as the Crees were restless through want of food and the absence of game, and a force sent to capture Arrowhead, the chief who had committed the murder, might precipitate trouble. [11]
One of those two young ladies must certainly captivate and perhaps capture the Tutor. [6]
The burning of towns and villages, the retreats after battles, the blow dealt at Borodino and the renewed retreat, the burning of Moscow, the capture of marauders, the seizure of transports, and the guerrilla war were all departures from the rules. [2]
He had hoped to win the reward which was offered for the recovery of the fugitive, and had promised his colleague half the money if he would help him to capture the maiden. [10]
It was proposed to make a flank march to the left, cut off the Vice-King (Murat) and capture him. [2]
And he clung to her the more desperately--as though by crushing her peradventure he might capture it. [9]
He was determined to do it himself, because, being a superstitious gentleman, as well as a hunter, he had some foolish notion that this capture would propitiate a goddess whom he imagined required offerings of the kind. [11]
Did you expect to capture them from us? [10]
He was moved to capture the skiff, arguing that it might be considered a ship and therefore legitimate prey for a pirate, but he knew a thorough search would be made for it and that might end in revelations. [5]
You helped Clark to capture that country," and he waved his hand towards the northern shore; "why the devil don't you tell me about it? [9]
If they want to capture Salem, they'll not give alarm by firing on us, so if we ride on they'll think we haven't sensed them. [11]
I sent him to capture a 'tongue. [2]
Could it be Tipton and his men riding from Jonesboro to capture Sevier? [9]
Once a Frenchman Tikhon was trying to capture fired a pistol at him and shot him in the fleshy part of the back. [2]
He applied to these people, and offered a reward sufficient to set them at work to capture some of these animals, if such a thing were possible. [6]
In the meantime there was the public: to permit the other fellow to capture that was to be lacking in ordinary prudence; if its votes counted for nothing, its savings were desirable; and it was fast getting into a state of outrage against monopoly. [9]
In that case, theory suggests that, while the enemy concentrates at that point, advantages can be gained by crossing smaller forces at other points to cut off his lines, destroy his communication, and capture his rear-guards, outposts, etc. [7]
It was to their home that Buonespoir the pirate--faithful to his promise to the Queen that he would harry English ships no more came wounded, after an engagement with a French boat sent to capture him, carried thither by Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. [11]
He also remembered the time when, after a rich capture on the highway which had filled his purse, he had ridden to Nuremberg in magnificent new clothes at the carnival season in order, by his brothers' counsel, to win a wealthy bride. [10]
Men stood on the street corners in the rain, reading of the capture of Camp Jackson, and of the riot, and thousands lifted up their voices to execrate the Foreign City below Market Street. [9]
When she heard the sequel of the story, the discomfiture and capture of Dick, she turned round for an instant, with a look of contempt and of something like triumph upon her face. [6]
The strategist and the nomarch used every means in their power to capture the robbers, but without the least success. [10]
And, besides, since the last great capture, in which the old man allowed me a share of my own, I, too, need not complain of poverty. [10]
Like most of the inhabitants of Haarlem, they were put to death by the Spanish destroyers at the capture of the noble, hapless city. [10]
At the capture the confederate had been shot. [11]
The news of the capture of their beloved Sevier had flown through the mountains like seeds on the autumn wind, and from north, south, east, and west the faithful were coming in, cursing Tipton and Carolina as they rode. [9]
Despite news of the capture of the fleches, Napoleon saw that this was not the same, not at all the same, as what had happened in his former battles. [2]
He had left the camp the day after the capture of Illora, and advanced thus far to receive the queen and escort her over the borders. [4]
How was it that the Russian army, which when numerically weaker than the French had given battle at Borodino, did not achieve its purpose when it had surrounded the French on three sides and when its aim was to capture them? [2]
The President regards that and the movement against East Tennessee as one of the most important movements of the war, and its occupation nearly as important as the capture of Richmond. [7]
Captain Silas H. Stringharn, now on the retired list, for distinguished services in the capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark. [7]
Since that the story of his noble deeds of daring, of his capture and escape, and a brief visit home before he was able to rejoin his regiment, had made his name familiar to many among us, myself among the number. [6]
It is his steady purpose to find the cave some time when he has leisure, and capture the chair, if it has not tumbled to pieces. [4]
This favored Venters's speedy capture of the horse, so, coiling his noose ready to throw, he hurried on. [13]
The general understanding seemed to be that the young lawyer who had followed her to the city was going to capture her. [6]
One of its schemes was to capture them and coop them up, on a neighboring island, under guard. [5]
But Detricand was safely hidden, and Fouche's men came too late to capture the Vendean chief or to forbid those formal acts which made Philip d'Avranche a prince. [11]
It began to run away only when suddenly seized by a panic caused by the capture of transport trains on the Smolensk road, and by the battle of Tarutino. [2]
Commander Stephen C. Rowan, for distinguished services in the waters of North Carolina, and particularly in the capture of Newbern, being in chief command of the naval forces. [7]
Can the Yankee regiments with their slouchy Dutchmen hope to capture it! [9]
Only when Virginia read to him the Northern account of the battles would he emerge from a calm sadness into excitement; and he clenched his fists and tried to rise when he heard of the capture of Jackson and the fall of Port Hudson. [9]
The news had reached him too that the sons of the desert were preparing for a new incursion, and he cried to Talib angrily but decidedly, as he turned his back upon Hermas, "You must ride alone to Klysma, and try to capture her. [10]
A little while previously to the capture of Feringhea's family, the British officer had captured Feringhea's foster-brother, leader of a gang of ten, and had tried the eleven and condemned them to be hanged. [5]
It is only possible to capture prisoners if they agree to be captured, just as it is only possible to catch a swallow if it settles on one's hand. [2]
In the first place, Captain Bowman's company, with a few scouts, of which Tom was one, set out that very afternoon for the capture of Cohos, or Cahokia, and this despite the fact that they had had no sleep for two nights. [9]
Edward would make pathetic attempts to capture the role Shivers had appropriated, to be the practical party himself, to convict Shivers of idealism. [9]
Then, in his own particular language, he began the account of the capture of the Jane, taking care in the pauses to see that my mug was full. [9]
O'Ryan deliberately left out several sentences, and gave a later cue, and the struggle for his capture was precipitated. [11]
Could it be otherwise, with what was behind her life--a husband who had ruined her youth, had committed homicide, had escaped capture, but who had not subsequently died, as the world believed he had done, so circumstantial was the evidence. [11]
They took each other prisoners at Seven Oaks, but the proofs of capture were so evenly balanced in favor of each, that a general army court had to be assembled to determine which one was properly the captor and which the captive. [5]
He was determined on an expedition to capture Fort Comfort, which had been abandoned by the great Company, and was now held by a great band of the Shunup Indians. [11]
The men and officers returning spoke of a brilliant victory, of the occupation of the town of Wischau and the capture of a whole French squadron. [2]
A shrewd British officer who knew the Indian character, took that characteristic into account in laying his plans for the capture of Eugene Sue's famous Feringhea. [5]
Many rewards were offered for the capture of these painters, but nobody applied. [5]
The original line of the Russian forces along the river Kolocha had been dislocated by the capture of the Shevardino Redoubt on the twenty-fourth, and part of the line--the left flank--had been drawn back. [2]
By the act of the 5th of August last Congress authorized the President to instruct the commanders of suitable vessels to defend themselves against and to capture pirates. [7]
Denisov was out of sorts both because of the rain and also from hunger (none of them had eaten anything since morning), and yet more because he still had no news from Dolokhov and the man sent to capture a "tongue" had not returned. [2]
All that he now wanted to know was what troops these were and to learn that he had to capture a "tongue"--that is, a man from the enemy column. [2]
His return to New York with the news of the capture of the Hudson's Bay posts brought consternation. [11]
He said that Murat was spending the night less than a mile from where they were, and that if they would let him have a convoy of a hundred men he would capture him alive. [2]
And Worthington's first move in the game would be to attempt to capture for his faction the support of the Administration itself. [9]
If Mrs. and Miss Llyn come back that way, they will be in greater danger than were we, for the Maroons were coming here to capture the ladies and hold them as hostages; and they would not let them pass. [11]
He had not met Iberville since his capture, but now, on entering the prison, he saw his enemy not a dozen paces from the door, pale and stern. [11]
So that the meeting should not be composed only of the roughest elements, they privately urged all responsible citizens to attend, and if possible capture the meeting for law and order and legitimate agitation. [11]
My master will meet her at the Town Hall tonight, and if the scrawny little squirrel I saw three years ago has really grown up into such a beauty, if he does not get on her track and capture her, my name isn't Biberli. [10]
In the foothills, many miles away from Slow Down Ranch and Tralee, there lived a herd of wild ponies, and it had been the ambition of a dozen ranchmen and broncho-busters thereabouts to capture one or many. [11]
While Psamtik was making every preparation for the capture of Phanes, Croesus, accompanied by his followers, had embarked on board a royal bark, and was on his way down the Nile to spend the evening with Rhodopis. [10]
To avoid misunderstanding, let me say that to attempt to fight the enemy slowly back into his entrenchments at Richmond, and then to capture him, is an idea I have been trying to repudiate for quite a year. [7]
He did not know that Erris Boyne was set to capture him for the rebel cause. [11]
His brain was inventive, and, seeing that the fault for which he would least easily be forgiven was the failure to capture Melissa, he tried to screen himself by a lie. [10]
Your army is in the field, and if you return to your family, then will the giant help your enemies; they will defeat you, will capture your capital, and possibly something evil might befall your mother. [10]
Orion's capture was in fact already decided on, when the Senator Justinus and some other friends had hinted a warning which he had acted on just in time. [10]
I was indeed in an unenviable plight, by no means sure that I would not be slain out of hand when they became sufficiently sober to capture me. [9]
I saw that if this thing went on I should lose my supremacy, this fellow would capture my following, I should be left out in the cold. [5]
It was as if this one precious woman I had so desperately pursued had, in the capture, lost her identity, had mysteriously become just woman, in all her significance, yes, and helplessness. [9]
It was as if the Ute Indians had sought to capture Washington and conduct the government. [9]
The latter, the history of whose capture with Cassius Clay you well know, had not arrived here when that vote was given; but, as I understand, he stands ready to give just such a vote whenever an occasion shall present. [7]
The expedition burned his house, but did not capture the fugitive. [4]
The abbe lifted his fingers in admonition once or twice, but his eyes flashed as Iberville spoke of an attempt to capture the admiral on his own ship. [11]
We shall capture him and his family to-morrow. [10]
But you--yes, you, Hermon--are the next person whom she means to capture. [10]
But we have hereto deal with a specific manifestation; we have to capture a stronghold, the possession of which will put us in much better position to treat in detail the general evil. [4]
If they capture her, I'll guarantee nothing, you 'King of kings! [10]
Fourthly, it would have been senseless to wish to take captive the Emperor, kings, and dukes--whose capture would have been in the highest degree embarrassing for the Russians, as the most adroit diplomatists of the time (Joseph de Maistre and others) recognized. [2]
Their convention had hardly adjourned when the capture of Atlanta gave a new aspect to the military situation. [7]
Austrian troops that had escaped capture at Ulm and had joined Kutuzov at Braunau now separated from the Russian army, and Kutuzov was left with only his own weak and exhausted forces. [2]
These dominant bankers had contrived to gain control of the savings of thousands and thousands of fellow-citizens who had deposited them in banks or paid them into insurance companies, and with the power thus accumulated had sallied forth to capture railroads and industries. [9]
The rascal had gone, and Smith, sending twenty soldiers to follow and capture him, started alone from the Glass house to return to the fort. [4]
He used to go on the highway and rob rich wayfarers; and other times he would swoop down from his high castle on the hills of the Neckar and capture passing cargoes of merchandise. [5]
But what a glorious victory was Grant's capture of Vicksburg, on the Fourth of July! [9]
He had not given the alarm, but had followed, to make the capture by himself. [11]

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