Captives
['kæptɪv]
Examples
- Many captives were brought to me in this way. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And treat your women well, for they are with you as captives and prisoners; they have not power over anything as regards themselves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For many such purposes gangs of captives were cheaper and far more controllable than levies of the king's own people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But later many captives were spared to be slaves because they had exceptional gifts or peculiar arts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her decks were crowded with them as they pressed forward as far as discipline would permit to get a glimpse of their captives. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The taste for these combats grew rapidly, and the wars supplied an abundance of captives. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His daughter put her little prayer-book in her pocket--had she been praying for pity on all prisoners and captives! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I have a prize among the captives as lovely as thine own. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- They all, therefore, fell captives into our hands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Rosanne