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    1. seize the muscles in his calves, but Roman fought back, wiggling his toes


    2. will seize each other by the hand and


    3. languages of the nations, shall take hold, and will seize the skirt of a man, a Jew, saying, we will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you (Zechariah 8:23)


    4. I still was in the north field when guardsmen came to seize me


    5. Herold Seize an inevitability


    6. The first exploit of every new reign was commonly to seize the treasure of the preceding king, as the most essential measure for securing the succession


    7. The animals had become completely fix-ated on destroying one another, when they had just been keen to seize upon what had appeared an easy meal


    8. The path ahead was clear - for the moment - and they had to seize it while they could


    9. “Adem Highlander!” she said in tones that reminded him of his childhood when his mother would seize him by the ear for some measure of strife


    10. Relief washed over him, but as he turned back, he saw that the darkness still loomed just behind him, threatening to stretch its ebony fingers out to seize him once more

    11. So I’ll leave you with my final advice on this subject, be alert to opportunities and seize them


    12. In these large executions, the executioner in his frenzy would often seize an unsuspecting onlooker he had a grudge against, or had been bribed to remove, and the victim's head would be hacked off amid the plaudits of the onlookers


    13. President Bush‘s flawed Immigration Reform Bill providing ―conditional‖ amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens must be reassuring to 1) (Moderate) Republicans who would consider its passage a political opportunity to place the party in better stead with Hispanic Voters and the Business Community, 2) Corporations seeking to attract Cheap(er) Labor, 3) Democrats who, for the same reasons indicated above, are uncomfortable with the idea of controlling our nation‘s borders at the risk of alienating a sizeable voting bloc and (who) would otherwise seize the moment, for purely political reasons, to challenge Republican proposals that (surprise!) ―don‘t go far enough,‖ 4) Multiculturalists and Internationalists likely to embrace such ―reforms‖ as a (positive) first step towards achieving their (respective) Universalist Agenda, and 5) Shakers of Western Culture who would seek its destruction at any cost for its own sake and who would therefore (also) consider such measures as an appropriate step in the ―right‖ direction


    14. The whole world was open to them, if only they had the courage to seize it


    15. As he plunged through the shallow covering of snow, he cursed himself for his impetuosity, thinking that he might have better been served by staying with Jalesow and trying to somehow retrieve his Luger and seize the truck


    16. And those specially adapted arms of theirs can both seize and slash with fatal efficiency


    17. I thought Jeanine attacked the Abnegation to seize power, but she attacked them to steal information—information only they knew


    18. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize on it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months


    19. He felt the charge all through his bones, and his body began to seize, but he


    20. 3 When a stupor shall seize the inhabitants of the Earth,

    21. those things which the king of Assyria was devising, that is to come and seize him and destroy his people, the two and a half tribes


    22. circle around him, 2 commanded his spearbearers to seize every one of the Hebrews, and to compel them to taste pigs's flesh, and


    23. And the eternal God will tread on the Earth, even on Mount Sinai; And will appear from His camp; And will appear in the strength of His might from the Heaven of the heavens; And all shall be struck with fear; And the Watchers shall quake; And great fear and trembling shall seize them to the ends of the Earth


    24. And the word of his mouth kills all the sinners; And all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face; And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the mighty; And the exalted and those who hold the Earth; And they shall see and recognize How he sits on the throne of his glory; And righteousness is judged before him; And no lying word is spoken before him; Then shall pain come on them as on a woman in travail, and she has pain in bringing out when her child enters the mouth of the womb; And she has pain in bringing out; And one portion of them shall look on the other; And they shall be terrified; And they shall be downcast of countenance; And pain shall seize them; When they see that Son of Man Sitting on the throne of his glory; And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the Earth shall bless and glorify and extol Him who rules over all, who was hidden; For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden; And the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might; And revealed him to the elect


    25. your position, and seize any other collateral to which he is


    26. your positions and seize your collateral, giving rise to


    27. 5 And the Lord listened to the voice of the sons of Jacob, and the Lord caused great terror and confusion to seize the people of Bethchorin, and they fought among themselves the one with the other in the darkness of night, and struck each other in great numbers


    28. 40 And the sons of Jacob went into the wilderness to seize the beasts, and note a wolf came toward them, and they seized him, and brought him to their father, and they said to him, This is the first we have found, and we have brought him to you as you did command us, and your son's body we could not find


    29. 11 And Joseph gave the written names of his brothers to him who was set over the open store, and he said to him, who ever shall come to you to buy corn, ask his name, and when men of these names shall come before you, seize them and send them, and they did so


    30. 39 And Joseph said to them, Seize this man and confine him in prison until his brothers come to him, and Joseph's valiant men hastened and they all laid hold of Simeon to bind him, and Simeon gave a loud and aweful shriek and the cry was heard at a distance

    31. Sean arranged a chauffeur for us, but I decided to seize this once in a life time chance and sit on the driver’s seat of this rare motor


    32. During that period, threats were made to seize 6,560 properties, and 3,721 condemnation filings or authorizations were recorded


    33. court judge ruled that city officials have the authority to seize seven properties for the project, including the former Chesapeake Restaurant, via eminent domain


    34. In April; the city of Baltimore filed suit to seize another property for the project, a historic theater that was already being restored


    35. seize absolute power! What will they get in


    36. Satan will always seize on this feeling


    37. And the eternal God will tread on the Earth even on Mount Sinai; And will appear from His camp; And will appear in the strength of His might from the Heaven of the heavens; And all shall be struck with fear; And the Watchers shall quake; And great fear and trembling shall seize them to the ends of the Earth


    38. And the word of his mouth kills all the sinners; And all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face; And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the mighty; And the exalted and those who hold the Earth; And they shall see and recognize How he sits on the throne of his glory; And righteousness is judged before him; And no lying word is spoken before him; Then shall pain come on them as on a woman in travail and she has pain in bringing out when her child enters the mouth of the womb; And she has pain in bringing out; And one portion of them shall look on the other; And they shall be terrified; And they shall be downcast of countenance; And pain shall seize them; When they see that Son of Man Sitting on the throne of his glory; And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the Earth shall bless and glorify and extol Him who rules over all who was hidden; For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden; And the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might; And revealed him to the elect


    39. Simplify and seize the joy!


    40. 5 And the Lord listened to the voice of the sons of Jacob and the Lord caused great terror and confusion to seize the people of Bethchorin and they fought among themselves the one with the other in the darkness of night and struck each other in great numbers

    41. 40 And the sons of Jacob went into the wilderness to seize the beasts and note a wolf came toward them and they seized him and brought him to their father and they said to him This is the first we have found and we have brought him to you as you did command us and your son's body we could not find


    42. 11 And Joseph gave the written names of his brothers to him who was set over the open store and he said to him who ever shall come to you to buy corn ask his name and when men of these names shall come before you seize them and send them and they did so


    43. 39 And Joseph said to them Seize this man and confine him in prison until his brothers come to him and Joseph's valiant men hastened and they all laid hold of Simeon to bind him and Simeon gave a loud and aweful shriek and the cry was heard at a distance


    44. government authorities shall seize the animals or the shipment, as well as the means of


    45. “When the chance comes, seize it


    46. Yours is the greatness of having the insight to recognize opportunity and the skill to seize it


    47. 3 When a stupor shall seize the inhabitants of the Earth and they shall fall into many tribulations and again when they shall fall into great torments; And it will come to pass when they say in their thoughts by reason of their much tribulation: "The Mighty 'One does no longer remember the Earth"? Yes it will come to pass when they abandon hope that the time will then awake


    48. 36 And many shall say to many at that time: "Where has the multitude of intelligence hidden itself and where has the multitude of wisdom removed itself?" 37 And whilst they are meditating these things; Then envy shall arise in those who had not thought anything of themselves and passion shall seize him who is peaceful; And many shall be stirred up in anger to injure many; And they shall rouse up armies in order to shed blood; And in the end they shall perish together with them


    49. 3 When moreover Hezekiah the king heard those things which the king of Assyria was devising that is to come and seize him and destroy his people the two and a half tribes which remained; no more he wished to overthrow Zion also; then Hezekiah trusted in his works and had hope in his righteousness and spoke with the Mighty One and said: 4 "Look because note! Sennacherib is prepared to destroy us and he will be boastful and exalted when he has destroyed Zion


    50. The screams and shouts of people fighting and dying around him tore into his understanding, sent it spinning into a vacuum he could not seize hold of











































    1. Panic seized his chest, crushing his heart


    2. My muscles have seized up after yesterday’s exertions and I am taking the easy way out


    3. So how could I, mere mortal that I am, resist? I was seized with an overwhelming need to float and drift


    4. Kirk seized the moment and gave him a nudge in the back


    5. fury of passion and anger, he seized his right foot with both of his


    6. She spun around and seized K’nada, unsheathed his blade and leaped through the air slicing thru imagined enemies swinging the blade with lightening speed


    7. There was one crossroads where the traffic completely seized up for about ten minutes because everyone was sitting in their line of traffic right across the junction (no yellow boxes over here!) and not giving way to anything at all


    8. Kirk seized the moment and gave him a nudge


    9. As had been foreseen, the defenders in the stronghold soon crossed over to the great chief's side, and the dark mountain was finally seized without a cruel fight


    10. In a flash the Knight had seized

    11. 2He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan,


    12. There was a second of hesitation from Johnson and Roman seized it, kicking the


    13. In her anger she grabbed Rapunzel's beautiful hair, wrapped them twice round her left hand, seized a pair of scissors with the right, and snip, snap, they were cut off, and the lovely braids lay on the ground


    14. seized and sold on to someone more honest


    15. Aladdin was seized by a desire to see her face, which was hard to do, as she always went veiled


    16. guards had seized him and declared that he was to be


    17. One bent her long neck down and seized his spear with her sharp teeth


    18. “The bullock they seized along with my family’s farm


    19. He’d seen Andrastus on that day when they seized the farm and took Atlas


    20. I had the only weapon, since Circe had seized all of the men’s

    21. There was a familiarity in it that seized him cold


    22. They must have been freshly seized and hastily prepared for their loathsome journey


    23. She seized Ben and pinched his cheeks leaving a red mark


    24. Carius seemed too preoccupied and too weary to notice right away, and the Breton seized upon the opportunity


    25. ” Saying this, she seized his quivering cock, inserted the head of it into the recesses of her crotch and carefully, strangely, sat down upon it


    26. She waited, giving him some time to accomplish a penetration, but when she was certain he was not going to be successful in this respect, she seized his cock and aimed it at her hole


    27. He cried out and seized her hips with his hands and began a quick, furtive fucking movement against her butt


    28. He had pulled his cock out of her again, so once more she seized it and steered it into her cunt while he thrust hard and entered her deeply, wonderfully


    29. if any person lay any wool, not entered as aforesaid, within fifteen miles of the sea, it must be seized and forfeited ; and if, after such seizure, any person shall claim the same, he must give security to the exchequer, that if he is cast upon trial he shall pay treble costs, besides all other penalties


    30. And so, if we had succeeded in drawing the attention of the crew of that British naval ship we, very likely, would have been taken prisoner and all of our possessions, as likely, would have been seized

    31. Drake seized the


    32. seized, and the hope of their use by the Confederates vanished


    33. As he brought it up for another shot, Jacob seized the wrist bearing the revolver in


    34. With his right hand, his left restraining the arm still futilely clutching the gun, Jacob seized


    35. He seized the Power; lava and ice flooded his veins to mix with taint


    36. Carl seized the Power


    37. Wil seized the Power and unleashed a blast of golden flames that tore through the dark wedges of demons


    38. of scrubber units—and partly because of the tension that seemed to have seized them all


    39. It seemed to be something akin to an arms race much as had been the case between the East and West (before the Nine seized control); either side nudging ahead in their cold war


    40. Excitement grew to fever pitch as he muttered mysterious incantations; but at last, the poison beginning to act, the poor woman screamed in fearful agony as the pains seized her

    41. The seized spoil was deposited in a heap outside Headquarters, and soon formed a large pile, a great portion of the articles being of the most common-place description


    42. The burial was marked by another scene of bloodshed, and more victims were chosen and executed, one of the mourners being sometimes seized and killed, if it suited the priest's caprice to further amuse the crowd


    43. Suddenly he stood transfixed, and muttered something, upon which a grey-haired patriarch was seized, in spite of his vigorous protestations, and rushed to the front


    44. There was not a candle in the house, but Hetty seized a brand from the


    45. "My father's money! Oh, Hetty!" was all she could say, and she seized a chair to keep from falling, while Hetty was nearly wild, and talked


    46. Then each chaplain seized a spade and filled the grave


    47. "The same conviction seized upon us both


    48. Scovel promptly punched back and was immediately seized


    49. seized the shoe, and, opening the door, hurried out to place it on the


    50. Yet when federal facility after facility was seized by Confederates, and they formed and declared their new government, Buchanan still did nothing












































    1. ---> Do not be afraid that seizes this place, of the


    2. “And that anyone who tampers with or otherwise seizes information kept within said documents, including by surrepti-tious viewing, is subject to punishment by the codes governing espionage


    3. seizes the officers and crew while the pirate’s cannon are trained upon them, steals whatever is valuable, applies the match and destroys the ship


    4. We get out, and Zeke seizes his mother’s hand to steady her as she shuffles through the snow


    5. fix the hamster’s wheel when it seizes up


    6. He seizes the limb and rips it from the dog’s devouring teeth


    7. 18 and wherever it seizes him it throws him down and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and wastes away


    8. This time, Ralph is nearer and he seizes the weapon


    9. By Mitra, Valannus sees and seizes the opportunity! He has driven their wing before him, and he leads his knights toward that defile


    10. “to catch”: it seizes the animal (the bird) without killing it

    11. one who seizes the


    12. So, if man seizes this life, he will earn a great win, whereas if he devotes himself to this life and to its garnish, he will lose a great loss


    13. The Almighty says: “Such is the Seizure of your Provider when He seizes the townships that have become wrongful


    14. As the hearer becomes engrossed in this state of absorption which is associated with a lack of awareness of Al’lah, and as his spirit’s rays are connecting with this singer, who in reality is a magician, Satan seizes this opportunity because he is, in fact, blind, but he can just smell the evilness


    15. That Duchess who had wanted her eldest son to marry Judith tapped Ingeborg on the arm with her umbrella as she passed her followed by her daughter and said: "Little pale child, little pale child," and shook her head at her and frowned and smiled, and whispered to Pamela that it looked very like jealousy; and Pamela said Nonsense to that, and tried to linger and talk to Ingeborg, but her mother, filled with the passion for refreshment that seizes all persons who go to parties, dragged her along with her to where it could be found, and on the way she was seen by the Bishop, who at once left the old lady who was talking to him to enfold Lady Pamela in his care and compass her about with a cloud of little attentions--chairs, ices, fruit; for not only had he confirmed her but he felt a peculiar interest in her particular kind of clean-limbed intelligent beauty


    16. He was in the fever to begin that seizes the artist after idleness, the fever to get away, to be off back to the real concern of life--the fierce fever of creation


    17. He seizes her mouth with his own, gobbling up any new expletives, drinking her in


    18. He seizes it as evidence


    19. The search for information never seizes and the lust they have for knowledge never ends,


    20. And it is necessary for him to have that intuitive power that seizes instinctively on those variations of form that are expressive of this inner man

    21. Such is the grip of your Lord when He seizes the towns in the midst of their sins


    22. And do not touch her with harm, lest the punishment of a great day seizes you


    23. of the immense compassion that seizes his heart, a heart that is softened


    24. The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner, The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,


    25. (Such a deed seizes upon the hearts of the whole race of men,


    26. "Quicksilver!" said Don Quixote, "aye and what is more, a legion of devils, folk that can travel and make others travel without being weary, exactly as the whim seizes them


    27. This being so, thou must remember that I am now labouring under that infirmity which women sometimes suffer from, when the craving seizes them to eat clay, plaster, charcoal, and things even worse, disgusting to look at, much more to eat; so that it will be necessary to have recourse to some artifice to cure me; and this can be easily effected if only thou wilt make a beginning, even though it be in a lukewarm and make-believe fashion, to pay court to Camilla, who will not be so yielding that her virtue will give way at the first attack: with this mere attempt I shall rest satisfied, and thou wilt have done what our friendship binds thee to do, not only in giving me life, but in persuading me not to discard my honour


    28. But you see how compassionate heaven sends aid in our sorest need; Don Gaiferos advances, and without minding whether the rich petticoat is torn or not, he seizes her and by force brings her to the ground, and then with one jerk places her on the haunches of his horse, astraddle like a man, and bids her hold on tight and clasp her arms round his neck, crossing them on his breast so as not to fall, for the lady Melisendra was not used to that style of riding


    29. But they must go nagging at me at every step--'Sancho said it, Sancho did it, Sancho here, Sancho there,' as if Sancho was nobody at all, and not that same Sancho Panza that's now going all over the world in books, so Samson Carrasco told me, and he's at any rate one that's a bachelor of Salamanca; and people of that sort can't lie, except when the whim seizes them or they have some very good reason for it


    30. snorting and foaming with lust and rage, he renews his attack, seizes me,

    31. pleased at its condition, and, smiling loves and graces, seizes one of my


    32. The usual guide from the hotel having followed them, they had paid two conductors, nor is it possible, at Rome, to avoid this abundant supply of guides; besides the ordinary cicerone, who seizes upon you directly you set foot in your hotel, and never quits you while you remain in the city, there is also a special cicerone belonging to each monument—nay, almost to each part of a monument


    33. The injured husband goes through all the emotions of jealousy, until conviction seizes on his mind, and then, in a frenzy of rage and indignation, he awakens his guilty wife to tell her that he knows her guilt and to threaten her with his vengeance


    34. The elderly bawd seizes his sleeve, the


    35. Stephen throws his ashplant on the table and seizes Zoe round the waist


    36. Stephen seizes Florry and turns with her


    37. (She seizes Florry and waltzes her


    38. LYNCH: (Rushes forward and seizes Stephen's hand) Here! Hold on! Don't run


    39. BELLA: Who pays for the lamp? (She seizes Bloom's coattail) Here, you were with


    40. She seizes his forearm

    41. 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


    42. It has eight of these long legs, and as the monster crawls through the forest he seizes an animal with a leg and drags it to his mouth, where he eats it as a spider does a fly


    43. metled to be longer curbed in by that modesty and awe which had hitherto restrained him, ventured, under the stronger impulse, and instructive promptership of nature alone, to slip his hands, trembling with eager impetuous desires, under my petticoats; and seeing, I suppose, nothing extremely severe in my looks, to stop or dash him, he feels out, and seizes, gently, the center spot of his ardours


    44. She seizes upon all my suggestions with a sure instinct that in the end they make for the safety of the Gould Concession


    45. And this must be the choice Patti or whoever had meant, for one who seizes possibilities, sees all possibilities


    46. reverie which we give to things that will not return, the lassitude that seizes you after everything was done; that pain, in fine, that the interruption of every wonted movement, the sudden cessation of any prolonged vibration, brings on


    47. Day by day his words, his looks enraptured the poor girl, who yielded herself up with delicious non-resistance to the current of love; she caught her happiness as a swimmer seizes the overhanging branch of a willow to draw himself from the river and lie at rest upon its shore


    48. Down comes Doggett from his Pulpit, seizes Lustre by the Halter, praises his Beauty with a covetous Look, and says: “I’ll water yer Horse, Boy


    49. “Because she seizes when I use compulsion


    50. “She only seizes when I ask about her mission,” he said, testing the theory as he voiced it



















    1. Mid-pour, I stop, a sudden thought seizing me, ‘Alastair? When did you first realise that you loved me?’


    2. Seizing the moment, he threw with all his might


    3. The man soon caught sight of the Legionnaire and also stopped, hand instinctively moving to his blade – but not quite seizing it


    4. He caught her by the upper arm, seizing her silently but sternly, letting his eyes reprimand her for her carelessness


    5. The creatures had frozen her in place, her simultaneous disgust and fear of them seizing her fast


    6. Seizing his hand she pressed it down hard on her tits while at the same time she pressed her butt up against the rigid cock in his pants


    7. Seizing his hard prick, she jacked it once or twice and aimed it at her juicy cunt hole


    8. It’s all about squandered time; not seizing the moment; not recognising the preciousness of a passing minute


    9. then went on to the East Indies, seizing nearly forty more


    10. He turned indignantly to expostulate, but a muscular sergeant added insult to injury, by seizing a stool and squatting him forcibly down upon it

    11. The disembarkation of the remaining divisions of the army proceeded slowly, and many of the men, especially of the 71st New York, stood in the surf for hours in the tropical sun, seizing the approaching boats and dragging them on shore through the breakers


    12. The American lines advanced slowly, the attacking force dashing across open spaces and seizing every bit of available cover


    13. Seizing the flag, he waved it triumphantly to the oncoming troops


    14. Yesterday‘s (November 8th) historical off-year elections resulted in the Republican Party seizing bilateral control of the House of Representatives and Senate for the first time since 1954


    15. Seizing this slim chance Darkburst slipped around the rock, running as fast as his legs would carry him, knowing he stood little chance of outrunning the enraged animal


    16. This/these remarkable event(s) quickly brought to mind the Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) waged ten years earlier by coalition forces led by the United States against Iraq who, having invaded Kuwait and seizing possession of its oil wells, was making veiled threats against its Saudi (Arabian) neighbor


    17. If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I should say: "Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will


    18. Forestall your opponent by seizing what he holds dear, and subtly contrive to time his arrival on the ground


    19. This is about seizing the day


    20. The US Navy also faced the daunting task trying to blockade over 3000 miles of coast, plus seizing the Mississippi River

    21. I gasp as I fall back, seizing the tree trunk at the last second


    22. She comes at me again, this time seizing my shoulders and pulling me down, toward her bent knee


    23. “Sure thing, sis!” Cinder said, seizing the opportunity to escape the ship


    24. She crawled as close as she dared to Orphenn’s seizing and snarling body, the


    25. Hitler tested his neighbors by seizing the buffer zone set by the Versailles Treaty known as the Rhineland


    26. Sven held a seizing Orphenn in his arms, trying his best to restrain the boy’s


    27. After seizing power and spurred by the fall of Monterrey, he raised an army of twenty-five thousand and marched north, exposing his army to cold, hunger, thirst and exhaustion


    28. over his spiked shoulder pauldron, seizing the handle of the


    29. I was seizing my final breath ravenously, when it hit me, a flash of golden brown in the corner of my eye


    30. And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and carried off all the pillars, and all the beams and ornaments of the house were at the same time folded up with it, and they carried it off and laid it in a place in the south of the land; And I saw till the Lord of the sheep brought a new house greater and loftier than that first, and set it up in the place of the first which had beer folded up: all its pillars were new, and its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first, the old one which He had taken away, and all the sheep were within it; And I saw all the sheep which had been left, and all the beasts on the Earth, and all the birds of the Heaven, falling down and doing homage to those sheep and making petition to and obeying them in everything; And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and had seized me by my hand who had taken me up before, and the hand of that ram also seizing hold of me, they took me up and set me down in the midst of those sheep before the judgement took place; And those sheep were all white, and their wool was abundant and clean; And all that had been destroyed and dispersed, and all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of the Heaven, assembled in that house, and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had returned to His house; And I saw till they laid down that sword, which had been given to the sheep, and they brought it back into the house, and it was sealed before the presence of the Lord, and all the sheep were invited into that house, but it held them not; And the eyes of them all were opened, and they saw the good, and there was not one among those who did not see; And I saw that that house was large and broad and very full; And I saw that a white bull was born, with large horns and all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air feared him and made petition to him all the time; And I saw till all their generations were transformed, and they all became white bulls; and the first among them became a lamb, and that lamb became a great animal and had great black horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over it and over all the oxen; And I slept in their midst, and I awoke and saw everything

    31. And I stood up to see till they folded up that old house; and carried off all the pillars and all the beams and ornaments of the house were at the same time folded up with it and they carried it off and laid it in a place in the south of the land; And I saw till the Lord of the sheep brought a new house greater and loftier than that first and set it up in the place of the first which had beer folded up: all its pillars were new and its ornaments were new and larger than those of the first the old one which He had taken away and all the sheep were within it; And I saw all the sheep which had been left and all the beasts on the Earth and all the birds of the Heaven falling down and doing homage to those sheep and making petition to and obeying them in everything; And thereafter those three who were clothed in white and had seized me by my hand who had taken me up before and the hand of that ram also seizing hold of me they took me up and set me down in the midst of those sheep before the judgement took place; And those sheep were all white and their wool was abundant and clean; And all that had been destroyed and dispersed and all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the Heaven assembled in that house and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced with great joy because they were all good and had returned to His house; And I saw till they laid down that sword which had been given to the sheep and they brought it back into the house and it was sealed before the presence of the Lord and all the sheep were invited into that house but it held them not; And the eyes of them all were opened and they saw the good and there was not one among those who did not see; And I saw that that house was large and broad and very full; And I saw that a white bull was born with large horns and all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air feared him and made petition to him all the time; And I saw till all their generations were transformed and they all became white bulls; and the first among them became a lamb and that lamb became a great animal and had great black horns on its head; and the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over it and over all the oxen; And I slept in their midst and I awoke and saw everything


    32. (4) Upon seizing an animal on behalf of the State, it shall be temporarily


    33. He latched onto the Link, simultaneously issuing a frantic command to cease the Translocation and seizing the knowledge of what had happened


    34. Only the seizing of power in 1965 by VNAF General Nguyen Cao Ky had ended the anarchy


    35. One night seizing an opportunity to escape she stole the relics that she knew would keep her alive and ran


    36. “But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire


    37. It is about seizing personal power


    38. Because there are so many internet business opportunities out there today, many people already have become internet millionaires overnight, such as Alex Tew, Mark Zuckerberg and Craig Newmark, just seizing only one of these opportunities, you can be one of them


    39. ” He wanders off through the crowd seizing the hand of a dancing girl twirling her a bit before you lose interest


    40. The taking element in a theft typically requires seizing possession of property that belongs to another, and may also involve removing or attempting to remove the property

    41. seizing him by the throat with the death grip


    42. Seizing the chance, he ascended the stage and announced that his daughter’s hand was sought just then by a highly placed official for his well qualified son


    43. He took the chair at the other end, and seizing a jade goblet, emptied it at a gulp


    44. Seizing her by the hair, Thalis dragged her down the corridor a short distance, to the edge of the circle of light


    45. Some men—spies of Valerius perhaps—shouted that the Count of Poitain intended seizing the crown for himself


    46. "It could be any bloody fish junker," he snarled, brusquely seizing the binoculars and focusing on the distant boat


    47. "Hey! An eggbeater! Heading right this way," he muttered, seizing the glasses and staring at the black flying machine skimming across the water


    48. Seizing them, he quickly corrected the boat and felt it surge forward again


    49. Seizing his clothes, he dressed and pulling on his leather bomber jacket, he moved out onto a long wooden porch or veranda


    50. She impresses me, Travis," he said, reaching out and seizing the front of her coat











































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    Synonyms for "seize"

    grab seize clutch get hold of prehend appropriate capture conquer attach confiscate impound sequester arrogate assume take over usurp apprehend subdue snag nab take catch arrest snatch grip grasp clench squeeze clinch

    "seize" definitions

    take hold of; grab


    take or capture by force


    take possession of by force, as after an invasion


    take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority


    seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession


    hook by a pull on the line


    affect


    capture the attention or imagination of