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Sentences starting with captured

Captured five years before and forgotten alike by the English and French Governments, he had apathetically pined and starved to these last days of his life. [11]

Sentences ending with captured

Under this pressure We thinned the line on the upper Potomac, until yesterday it was broken with heavy loss to us, and General Banks put in great peril, out of which he is not yet extricated, and may be actually captured. [7]
In ordinary times the thief and the horse would soon be captured. [5]
The army of the Bashaw was cut to pieces and he himself captured. [4]
By the help of soldier Gabord here you all were captured. [11]
On the evening of October 11 Seslavin came to the Aristovo headquarters with a French guardsman he had captured. [2]
But Mortier is not captured. [2]
One of the generals was reporting to him where the guns and prisoners had been captured. [2]
I shall never forget the impression made on me by the decorous luxury of that big house, standing amidst its old trees, halfway up the gentle slope that rose steadily from the historic highway where poor Andre was captured. [9]
It was a dangerous business I was set on, for I was sure that I would be hung without shrift if captured. [11]
Dyck was in a position where, with his inflammable nature, he could be captured. [11]

Short sentences using captured

He has captured Noble--. [5]
The third man captured us. [5]
Sevier was captured as narrated. [9]

Sentences containing captured two or more times

The cat plays with the captured mouse, and the cormorant with the captured fish. [1]
There was in her voice an abandon and tragic intensity, a wonderful resonance and power, which captured her hearers as they had never been captured before. [11]
He applied his gifts in politics, daringly unscrupulous, superficially persuasive, intellectually insinuating, to his wife; and she, who had been captured once by all these things, was not to be captured again. [11]
It is a fact that when the Mexicans captured Captain Thornton and his command, they found and captured them within another Mexican field. [7]

More example sentences with the word captured in them

There were handsome young fellows on the Pontine coast, and we captured them. [10]
Six months ago you had a prisoner here, captured on the New England border. [11]
I will send you a rebel flag captured by our troops in driving the enemy back. [7]
But the one witness to McGilveray's adventure was dead, and that was why no man knew wherefore it was that McGilveray took an oath to drink no more till they captured Quebec. [11]
The baker Carcaud, who, with Olivier Delagarde, betrayed the country into the hands of Rullecour years ago, had, with a French confederate of Mattingley's, been captured in attempting to steal Jean Touzel's boat, the Hardi Biaou. [11]
Augustine, p. 246) where he recounts having captured one hundred Sarmatian virgins, and unmaidened ten of them in one night, together with the happenings subsequent thereto. [5]
I'll tell you what he said to me only--" But fortunately at this juncture Miss Trevor was captured again, and Miss Thorn put her hand over her mouth. [9]
Among those who were not afraid to stand and fight, and who would not be captured, was our Giuseppe. [4]
When the armies were encamped near each other at Raza and Argish, Rodoll cut off the heads of parties he captured going to the Turkish camp, and threw them into the enemy's trenches. [4]
Among these prisoners was the grinning corporal who had captured McGilveray and then released him. [11]
Gang after gang was captured, tried, and punished. [5]
Some of Junot's wagons also had been captured or abandoned. [2]
Everyone believed the victory to have been complete, and some even spoke of Napoleon's having been captured, of his deposition, and of the choice of a new ruler for France. [2]
A pleasant green valley lay to the north, and to the south, far off, was the wall of rosy hills that hid the captured town. [11]
The Second and Twenty-fourth Corps captured forts, guns, and prisoners from the enemy, but I cannot tell the numbers. [7]
In their terror, twenty brave rebels of two hours ago were to be captured by a single British officer of infantry speaking bad French. [11]
For example, General Trimble, captured fighting us at Gettysburg, is, without recanting his treason, a legal voter by the laws of Maryland. [7]
I am glad to see an Indiana regiment on this day able to present the captured flag to the Governor of Indiana. [7]
When they began to keep me close, and carried me off at last into the country, where we were captured by the English, I could not see her, and my heart aches for her. [11]
Only a short time before he had learned that his two messengers had been captured and failed to reach their destination. [10]
Forcing my way through the doors, I captured a salesman, and from a state bordering on nervous collapse he became galvanized into an intense alertness and respect when he understood my desires. [9]
He had only thought it was not the treasure, however--he had not known that it wasn't--and so the suggestion of a captured bundle was too much for his self-possession. [5]
When he came this morning he said he had captured Miss X; that Lord Roberts and Kipling were going to take hold and see if they could do monographs worthy of the book. [5]
Before Smith's advent they had captured the important city of Caniza, and just as he reached the ground they had besieged the town of Olumpagh, with two thousand men. [4]
At eleven o'clock they brought him news that the fleches captured by the French had been retaken, but that Prince Bagration was wounded. [2]
This man's career, the work he was set to do, the ideal before him, the vision of a land redeemed, captured her, carried her panting into a resolve which, however she might modify her speech or action, must be an influence in her life hereafter. [11]
The army of the Vendee, under Detricand Comte de Tournay, had made a last dash at a small town held by a section of the Republican army, and captured it. [11]
For many of the sailors were captured and carried bodily to the "Rose and Crown" and the "Three Blue Balls," where they became properly drunk on Jamaica rum; others made good their escape on board. [9]
Some Cossacks on the prowl for booty fell in with the Emperor and very nearly captured him. [2]
He captured all the inhabitants, but was finally conquered and condemned to his death. [5]
Twice, also, in the garden of his old home he had seen her, when she came to visit Faith, who had captured her heart at once. [11]
It almost warrants the enthusiasm of the spies of that rabble of adventurers who captured Dan. [5]
Sherman's army captured that, and so, even in death, the bold navigator partly fulfilled his contract. [5]
The pirate protested that he did not know the position of the army--it might be at Taenarum, whence the captured ship came. [10]
In the fight that had ensued, four Indians were captured, and the main body chased four miles, but nobody killed. [5]
Five weeks before she was captured in the battle of Compiegne, her Voices told her what was coming. [5]
Gibraltar has stood several protracted sieges, one of them of nearly four years' duration (it failed), and the English only captured it by stratagem. [5]
She went to see her folks half a year after she was married, and on her way back, on a Saturday evening, the Indians captured her within five miles of this place, and she's never been heard of since. [5]
In it Nicholson says that "they fell in with and captured the admiral's ship, and killed him. [4]
An English citizen said: "In the early part of this century Mauritius was used by the French as a basis from which to operate against England's Indian merchantmen; so England captured the island and also the neighbor, Bourbon, to stop that annoyance. [5]
It is also said his supposed desertion is comprised in an absence commencing with his falling behind last winter, being captured and paroled by the enemy, and then going home. [7]
Her great heart rose, and suddenly the mother in her as well as the woman in her was captured by his wooing. [11]
All along the road groups of French prisoners captured that day (there were seven thousand of them) were crowding to warm themselves at campfires. [2]
Proceeding up the River Tockwogh, the latter Indians received them with friendship, because they had the weapons which they supposed had been captured in a fight with the Massawomeks. [4]
There was great rejoicing when the captured frigate Macedonian was brought into New York, and was visited by the curious as she lay wind-bound above Hell Gate. [4]
He did not regain consciousness till late in the day, when with other wounded and captured Russian officers he was carried to the hospital. [2]
More men of rank run at him, and he is finally captured and borne away; and we all breathe freer that the danger to royalty is averted. [4]
Had the Cossacks pursued the French, without heeding what was behind and around them, they would have captured Murat and everything there. [2]
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]
It may possibly pay for the barrel of beef that Sherman's soldiers captured, if you can get a relief bill through Congress making an appropriation for that purpose; but it will not pay for the twenty-nine barrels the Indians ate. [5]
We captured and paroled 300 or 400 men. [7]
You were captured out of uniform You know enough of war to appreciate the risk you ran. [9]
Jameson, and those other knights of adventure, were captured by the forces of "Oom Paul," and some of them barely escaped execution. [5]
A sacristan commanded one party which captured several hundred prisoners in the course of a month; and there was Vasilisa, the wife of a village elder, who slew hundreds of the French. [2]
Slade was captured, once, by a party of men who intended to lynch him. [5]
Suddenly she wheeled on him, and her big eyes captured him. [11]
On the shabby old belfry-tower is the gilt dragon which Philip van Artevelde captured, and brought in triumph from Bruges. [4]
Presently, from an officer who had been captured as he was setting free a fire-raft upon the river to run among the boats of our fleet, I heard that Doltaire had been confined in the Intendance from a wound given by a stupid sentry. [11]
In the fulness of time Slade's myrmidons captured his ancient enemy Jules, whom they found in a well-chosen hiding-place in the remote fastnesses of the mountains, gaining a precarious livelihood with his rifle. [5]
Sleeman captured some of these Thugs and proceeded to examine them separately, and with proper precautions against collusion; for he would not believe any Indian's unsupported word. [5]
For instance, many of their friends had been devoured by sharks; the sharks, in their turn, were caught and eaten by other men; later, these men were captured in war, and eaten by the enemy. [5]
Several times parts of the Pavlograd regiment had exchanged shots with the enemy, had taken prisoners, and once had even captured Marshal Oudinot's carriages. [2]
Berthier, his chief of staff, dropped behind to question a Russian prisoner captured by the cavalry. [2]
Off the island of Planoca it was overpowered and captured by a little picaroon, with lateen sails and a couple of guns, and a most villainous crew, in poverty-stricken garments, rusty cutlasses in their hands and stilettos and pistols stuck in their waistbands. [4]
In the solitude of her own room--the room above the hallway, from which she had gone to be captured by Bucklaw--she had misgivings. [11]
Some English people of consequence (the German of whom I have spoken was with them) had been captured, and it had cost them a heavy ransom. [4]
You had the odds with you, but she has captured them like a born soldier. [11]
I certainly did not care very much whether the Celebrity was captured or not, and yet, with the prospect of getting him over the border, I had not thought of breakfast. [9]
What was the new thing in her carriage which captured his eye? [11]
No one found more opportunities for attacking, no one captured or killed more Frenchmen, and consequently he was made the buffoon of all the Cossacks and hussars and willingly accepted that role. [2]
None, indeed, seemed more cheerful than a recently captured group I saw later, who were actually building the barbed-wire fence that was to confine them. [9]
Spain chastised the Moors five or six years ago, about a disputed piece of property opposite Gibraltar, and captured the city of Tetouan. [5]
I saw Marshall, months afterward, and although he had plenty of money he did not claim to have captured an entire million. [5]
He captured two men who had stolen overland stock, and with his own hands he hanged them. [5]
Of the four men who had captured Garrett Enderby at Enderby House, three had been killed in battle, and the other had deserted. [11]
Admiral Saunders received me with great cordiality, thanked me for the dispatches, heard with applause of my adventures with the convoy, and at once, with dry humour, said he would be glad, if General Wolfe consented, to make my captured schooner one of his fleet. [11]
About that time Major Sleeman captured Eugene Sue's Thug-chief, "Feringhea," and got him to turn King's evidence. [5]
When, two years later, Don John captured Tunis, the exploit could no longer increase his renown. [10]
Wasn't Souther captured last week, and that rash letter of Puss Russell's to Jack Brinsmade published in the Democrat? [9]
Fay, however, captured Lassiter the moment he first laid eyes on her. [13]
Half the wagons laden with hardtack that had traveled the first stages with them had been captured by Cossacks, the other half had gone on ahead. [2]
Yet, Jasmine, I know that you are mine; that you were mine long ago, even when you did not know, and were captured by opportunity to do what, with me, you felt you could not do. [11]
He had captured John Grier as quickly and as securely as a night fisherman spears a sturgeon in the flare at the bow of the boat. [11]
Jethro knew, when Jake Wheeler failed to bring him a message back from Clovelly, that the war had begun, and that Isaac D. Worthington, commander of the railroad forces in the field, had captured his pawn, the hill-Rajah. [9]
We infer that it was this pass that the earl captured by a stratagem, and carrying his army through it, began the siege of Regall in the plain. [4]
Now and then it captured a pilot who was 'out of luck,' and added him to its list; and these later additions were very valuable, for they were good pilots; the incompetent ones had all been absorbed before. [5]
Malaish, if the infidel Inglesi was not conquered to-day, he should be beaten and captured and should die to-morrow! [11]
You will not in any case detain the crew of a captured neutral vessel or any other subject of a neutral power on board such vessel, as prisoners of war or otherwise, except the small number necessary as witnesses in the prize court. [7]
Napoleon led six hundred thousand men into Russia and captured Moscow; then he suddenly ran away from Moscow, and the Emperor Alexander, helped by the advice of Stein and others, united Europe to arm against the disturber of its peace. [2]
By and by, however, in the sweet quiet of the night and the somnolent light of the moon, sleep captured her. [11]
On the way, however, he told himself that it was unfair to blame the bird which had just been captured for fluttering. [10]
Altomaris gives a horrid case; and Fincelius mentions one occurring as late as 1541, the subject of which was captured, still insisting that he was a wolf, only that the hair of his hide was turned in! [6]
He had had his high moment with the French admiral, had given his commands to the fleet and had arranged the disposition of the captured French ships. [11]
It happened to him to be captured in one of his self-appointed expeditions, but the federal colonel released him, after a short examination, satisfied that he could most injure the confederate forces opposed to the Unionists by returning him to his regiment. [5]
When he captured him he would make him atone for having caused Pharaoh and his queen to tremble before him and shed so many tears on his account. [10]
His look devoured her, her song captured him. [11]
He had captured her young imagination, and had fastened his image on her heart. [11]
If Pocahontas gave her age correctly, as it appears upon her London portrait in 1616, aged twenty-one, she must have been eighteen years of age when she was captured in 1613 This would make her about twelve at the time of Smith's captivity in 1607-8. [4]
The next morning he was captured, no doubt by Tory treachery, and taken to Howe's headquarters, the mansion of James Beekman, situated at (the present) Fiftieth Street and First Avenue. [4]

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