Sentence examples for had fallen captive from inspiring English sources

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One of the special tasks of the orders of knighthood was the liberation of Christian slaves who had fallen captive to the Muslims; and special knightly orders were even founded for the ransom of Christian slaves.

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In the past two decades, he has also undergone a political conversion, from a Massachusetts Democrat who considered Republicans to be the establishment that resisted newcomers like him, to a Nevada Republican who believes that his former party coddles the idle and has fallen captive to identity politics.

During this period, messengers from Tzazon, sent to announce his recovery of Sardinia, sailed into Carthage unaware that the city had fallen and were taken captive, followed shortly after by Gelimer's envoys to Theudis, who had reached Spain after the news of the Roman successes had arrived there and hence failed to secure an alliance.

After Cyrus had fallen in battle, this woman was carried captive to the King and acquired a great influence with him.

That ended a longstanding distinction between captive chimps and wild ones, whose population has fallen from millions to about 300,000, and it afforded captive chimps the same protections.

And he appears to have fallen in something like love with Scott, the man he holds captive.

King Pirro, after plundering Troy, has fallen in love with Hector's widow, the imprisoned Andromaca, who reluctantly exploits the king's affection to secure safetyfor her captive son.

You would think that experience might jade me from falling captive to "board-om".

They want to keep the movement's energy alive through the next presidential election -- but not fall captive to it.

As for Dr. Schinnar, he said he was "stunned by Robin's looks," but fell captive to her creative mind.

But some fell captive to the militants, the Yazidis say.

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