Sentence examples for he seized from from inspiring English sources

In addition Barbossa now commands the swift, capable ship the Black Pearl, which he seized from Jack Sparrow in a mutiny, after which he left Sparrow to die.

Colonel Budanov has said he suspected that the woman, whom he seized from her father's home, was a sniper and that he has no memory of the killing.

It was in that clinic, a low-slung building at Camp Liberty on the outskirts of Baghdad, that Sergeant Russell used a weapon that he seized from an escort last Monday to shoot and kill Major Houseal, Private Yates and three other people, Army officials say.

Mr Mugabe, however, is less interested in sensible land tenure than in rewarding cronies, which is why the land he seizes from white farmers so often goes not to peasant farmers but to people like the registrar-general, who has helped make such a mockery of the election, and the chief justice, who presides over a compromised judiciary.

Framlingham was returned to Thomas and the Duke spent his retirement there; he decorated his table at the castle with gold and silver plate that he had seized from the Scots at Flodden.

"Of course the boys here dream of being gangsters," he said, showing the dozens of fake guns, real switchblades and pouches of marijuana he has seized from his students.

Haji Girma, 18, wearing white shorts and a shirt that he said he had taken because his old clothes were so tattered, explained that about two years ago he was seized from his home in Addis Ababa at 2 A.M. by officials of his neighborhood association.

He was seized from outside the family shop in Larkana's main market.

Lebanon's Interior Minister, Sami Khatib, said he was seized from his car by two unidentified men late Thursday afternoon.

Merrit was striking Hamilton with his cane and the latter was energetically wielding a rung he had seized from a passing cart when the police intervened.

As a 6-year-old, he was seized from his family's home because at the time, no Christian could live with Jews.