Seized

Famous quotes containing the word seized:

    “Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “With a whirl of thought oppressed
    I sink from reverie to rest.
    An horrid vision seized my head,
    I saw the graves give up their dead.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts’ hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, “Give ‘em Watts, boys—give ‘em Watts!””
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)