Definition of Captiving
1. captive [v] - See also: captive
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Literary usage of Captiving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Original Narratives of Early American History by John Franklin Jameson, American Historical Association (1913)
"Wherefore, the day following, they Surrendered the Fort, upon Capitulations for
Life and Liberty; which yet the Indians broke, by Butchering and captiving ..."
2. Elizabethan Sonnets by Sidney Lee (1904)
"Too feeble I t' abide the brunt so strong, Was forced to yield myself into their
hands; Who, me captiving straight with rigorous wrong, Have ever since me ..."
3. Resolves, Divine, Moral and Political by Owen Felltham (1840)
"To see the countenance, (through which perhaps there shined a lovely majesty,
even to the captiving of admirable souls) now altered to a frightful paleness, ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... and captiving one another, the which was a great helpe unto the Spaniards,
for to subject that Country with so great ease unto the King, and called them ..."
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