Seizes
[si:ziz]
Examples
- He has been so horribly frightened in the short interval that his terror seizes the other, who makes a rush at him and asks loudly, What's the matter? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Fight labor's demands to the last ditch and there will come a time when it seizes the whole of power, makes itself sovereign, and takes what it used to ask. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A ghastly terror seizes him, while on the Negro's face (it is Mesrour again in another costume) appears a ghastly joy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He seizes a stick, which he observes there, kills Oldacre, and departs after burning the body. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He seizes her, and she, snatching up the nearest object, which happens to be this knife, strikes at him in order to make him let go his hold. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The savage who seizes hold of a broken bough is in possession of the _lever_, the uses of which he learns by the facility it affords in moving other objects. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I fed like a wild beast, which seizes its food only when stung by intolerable hunger. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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