And it was a strange coincidence that just as Westerham was explaining to Lord Dunton his scheme for kidnapping the Prime Minister, Melun hit upon the plan of abducting Lady Kathleen as the surest means of inducing Lord Penshurst to surrender.
Melun sat till late perfecting his plan of abducting Lady Kathleen, but, turn and twist the matter though he might, he saw no means of carrying it through unless he sought Mme.
That Beckenham had been kidnapped in order that he should be out of the way while the villainous plot for abducting Phyllis was being enacted there could be no doubt.
Nothing at all, I submit, in view of the fact that it may be the means of saving you from a term in prison for abducting Rosemary?
Three weeks ago, I laid myself liable to imprisonment and heaven knows what else by abducting my little girl.
Peninsula, art of abducting human souls in the, 73 sqq.
M52) Nowhere perhaps is the art of abducting human souls more carefully cultivated or carried to higher perfection than in the Malay Peninsula.
Other forms of marriage are seen, practised by men, such as marrying girls after abducting them by force from amidst their kinsmen.
Hence, such cases as those of Krishna abducting Rukmini and Arjuna abducting Subhadra, are excluded from this denunciation.
Abducting her thus, the Lord of the waters took her to his own abode.
In forcibly abducting for marriage a girl that is bestowed upon the abductor by the girl's kinsmen, with due rites, as also a girl for whom dower has been paid and accepted, there is no great sin.
He had an almost guilty feeling of having broken an unwritten law, of abducting a princess, and the old Duncan house had seemed to frown protestingly that such an act should have taken place under its windows.
Assuredly," said Nick, "to the extent of abducting Monsieur le cure.
The gentlemen are accused of abducting the senator by armed force and keeping him a prisoner; for we do not think they have murdered him--in spite of appearances," replied Pigoult.
Mr. Tickels, for the purpose of receiving the one hundred dollars, which had been promised him as the reward of his villainy in abducting Fanny Aubrey.
I don't know how deeply you are mixed up in this cattle-poisoning, girl-abducting scheme of Barrows, but I give you the benefit of the doubt.
They had him waylaid and treated to confectionery by their emissaries; and once or twice succeeded in abducting him and sending him down to the country with their party's candidates, for exhibition at elections.
The slight flesh wound Lady Vera had inflicted on his arm had entirely healed, and with it had died out his futile anger against her, giving place again to the weak love that had urged him to that desperate recourse ofabducting her.
My first was that Banks had brought the car here the night before with the fixed intention of abducting Brenda Jervaise.
The patient is aware of the displacement taking place, and is unable to extend the forearm until the displaced tendon has been reduced by abducting the arm.
Chinese Government have a score against her for abducting a Mandarin of the Gold Button.
But in that case--and here the original argument wheeled back upon me--what possible advantage could accrue to her throughabducting me?
Thank goodness she has never done me the honour of abducting me as she did the Sultan of Surabaya and those other Johnnies.
By all that was reasonable in woman, however, what possible advantage could she hope to gain by abducting me?
You have assured me that I have nothing to fear at your hands, and you appear to be quite satisfied that in abducting me you have got the man you want; but I am as far as ever from understanding what your motive can be.
If you will do this I am willing to overlook the outrage which you have perpetrated in abducting me, and promise that you shall hear nothing more about it.
Kentucky, news of Canada early brought into, 27; abducting trip of Dr.
But abolitionists were unwilling, for the most part, to involve themselves more deeply in danger by abducting slaves from thraldom.
Louisiana, effect of purchase of, 26; abducting trip of A.
John Fairfield, the Virginian, depended largely on disguises in several of his abducting exploits.
We have no record, however, of his abducting slaves from the South except in the case of his famous raid into Missouri in 1858.
John Fairfield, a Virginian, devoted much time and thought to abducting slaves.
Altogether Mr. Fairbank spent seventeen years and four months of his life in prison for abducting slaves; he says that during his second term he received at the hands of prison officials thirty-five thousand stripes.
An ingenious scheme, so far as the easy part of abducting the King is concerned," I replied.
I felt sure I had left the impression I had gone to create--that their best time for abducting Minna would be at the moment of her return from the palace; and I completed my arrangements on that basis.
The Marquis de Chavagnac has often made people talk about him by abducting beautiful girls; he has suddenly left Paris, and one may presume that it was on some similar adventure.
It's a good deal more likely he has made it by assisting the love affairs of some great nobleman, in procuring and abducting some beauty.
It is a series of letters that passed between Governor Seward of New York and the Governor of Virginia, as to the requisition of two persons in New York charged by the Governor of Virginia with abducting slaves.
It seems to me that, since he had so much to do with abducting Fred, he ought to be arrested, tried, and punished.
It looks as if the plan of abducting Fred and holding him for ransom is his.
Pray tell me of what you accuse me--of forcibly abducting Miss Dane last night at ten o'clock?
Why should I be suspected of forcibly removing a harmless and worthy young man from his regular avocation, and, as you term it, abducting him, which I presume means keeping him bound and gagged and imprisoned?
What the devil benefit could accrue to me from abducting or imprisoning or in any way laying my criminal hand upon this young man?
You must allow me to inform the Judge that I was abducting you, so that he--" "How absurd!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abducting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
