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Example sentences for "hostages"

Lexicographically close words:
hoss; hossback; hosses; host; hostage; hoste; hosted; hostel; hostelers; hostelrie
  1. Nor did the enemy, in their resentment, spare even the three hundred hostages which they had received.

  2. The condition of restoring their territory to the Veientians was obtained by him, and the necessity of giving hostages in case they wished the garrison to be withdrawn from the Janiculum was extorted from the Romans.

  3. And seeing that of all hostages to Cnut the queen would be the most valuable, that plan would be fatal.

  4. But at Sandwich we found the thanes whom Swein had held as hostages left, cruelly maimed in hand and face, with the message from Cnut that he would return.

  5. The oaths are broken, the hostages left to their fate.

  6. Giving hostages for his fidelity, he is set at liberty.

  7. What are oaths and hostages when prerogative, and the people are contending?

  8. Besides this, they insisted that the King should not put a garrison in Rouen, and as security for the observance of these conditions they required hostages from the King, to be kept by them at Havre-de-Grace.

  9. The men could ill be spared from Quebec, and they were but hostages among the Five Nations.

  10. The treaty contained the somewhat humiliating {210} provision, that English hostages should be given to France until the restitution of Louisbourg had actually taken place.

  11. The son of the king of Granada and all other hostages in possession of the Castilian sovereigns were to be restored at the same time.

  12. For the fulfilment of these articles five hundred hostages from the principal families were required previous to the surrender, who should be treated with great respect and distinction by the Christians, and subsequently restored.

  13. All this being arranged, Ali Dordux delivered up twenty of the principal inhabitants to remain as hostages until the whole city should be placed in the possession of the Christians.

  14. He set forth the necessity of complying with the capitulation, from the famine that reigned in the city, the futility of defence, and from the hostages having already been delivered into the hands of the besiegers.

  15. The capitulation being arranged, they gave as hostages the alcayde of the city and the principal officers, together with the sons of their late chieftain, the veteran Ali Atar.

  16. The hostages the Saracens were to send were looked for in the camp, and the Crusaders fancied they could see the gates of the castle of Thoron thrown open to them; but despair had all at once changed the resolutions of the Saracens.

  17. The king of Jerusalem, the duke of Bavaria, the legate of the pope, and the principal leaders repaired to the camp of the Saracens, and remained as hostages till the accomplishment of the treaty.

  18. And he gave him authority to gather together a army, and to make arms, and that he should be his confederate: and the hostages that were in the castle, he commanded to be delivered to him.

  19. And the hostages were delivered to Jonathan, and he restored them to their parents.

  20. The states of further Gaul did not wish to give hostages to Cæsar.

  21. Since the tribes are giving hostages to each other, we shall inform Cæsar.

  22. It contains barracks and a chapel (photo below), and it was in the latter that the hostages of Lille spent their nights during the German occupation (p.

  23. It has been already mentioned that the youthful Philip was one of the hostages delivered to the Thebans as security for the peace effected by Pelopidas.

  24. This agreement was confirmed, and prince Edward and Henrie sonne to the king of Almaine were appointed to remaine as hostages with the barons.

  25. These now fell into the hands of Scipio, who treated them with kindness; and the hostages of those people who declared themselves in favor of the Romans were restored without ransom.

  26. She was sent back by the Romans to Porsena, who was so amazed at her courage that he not only set her at liberty, but allowed her to take with her those of the hostages whom she pleased.

  27. Cæsar commanded Ariovistus to abstain from introducing any more Germans into Gaul, to restore the hostages to the Ædui, and not to attack the latter or their allies.

  28. At Lilybæum the Consuls found the hostages awaiting them, and then promised the Carthaginian envoys that the decision of the Senate should be announced to them in Africa.

  29. The hostages who had been given by the various Spanish tribes to the Carthaginians had been placed for security in the city.

  30. These terms were accepted, and Porsena withdrew his troops from the Janiculum after receiving ten youths and ten maidens as hostages from the Romans.

  31. Unable to offer resistance, they gave as hostages three hundred children belonging to their nobility, drawn from Cora and Pometia.

  32. These young Kannakas were so many hostages for the good behaviour of their parents; while the parents, always within reach of the power of the colonists, were so many hostages for the good behaviour of the Kannakas.

  33. Such, in fact, was the basis of the treaty that was now made, though hostages were taken for its fulfilment.

  34. Heaving-to to windward of the group, the canoes all passed into their respective harbours, leaving the schooner in the offing, with the hostages on board, waiting for the fulfilment of the treaty.

  35. That noble, as it may be remembered, was one of the hostages who remained at the Court of Henry the Second for the fulfilment of the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis.

  36. In vain they suggested that the two nobles would serve as hostages for the good behavior of the people during his absence, since any tumult must only tend to precipitate the fate of the prisoners.

  37. So I was willing to have the principal of the Galileans, in all seventy, as hostages for their fidelity, but still under the notion of friendship.

  38. Demetrius therefore sent to Jonathan, offering to make him governor of Judea, and ordering all the hostages detained in the citadel of Jerusalem to be released, giving him at the same time full power to levy troops.

  39. Joash entered Jerusalem, destroyed the walls for four hundred cubits, pillaged the temple and the royal treasure, and took hostages back to Samaria.

  40. Rich hostages he bringeth / with him unto Gunther's land.

  41. Hostages were so many / ne'er brought into this land As to the Rhine come hither / through his great bravery.

  42. The conqueror departed at the fall of the year, without leaving behind any garrison, but, at the same time, taking away hostages to ensure the carrying out of the terms imposed.

  43. Francis eventually regained his liberty on hard conditions that included his marriage with Charles's widowed sister Leonora, Queen Dowager of Portugal; and his sons were to remain in Spain as hostages for his fulfilment of the terms.

  44. A meeting between the two allies, which for its splendour should surpass all other regal displays, was constantly urged by the French hostages in England by order of Francis, as a means of showing to the world that he could count upon Henry.

  45. The army was well provisioned, the frightened natives bringing in corn and other necessaries in abundance; towns and districts yielded hostages for their good behaviour; strong places were surrendered in which garrisons were left.

  46. It was the possession of these hostages that decided the fate of the town.

  47. He fled in the night to Friesach, leaving Baldwin and his other companions to be seized as hostages and kept in bonds.

  48. Don Ferdinand was left with twelve nobles as hostages for the treaty till Ceuta was restored; on the other side Zala ben Zala's eldest son was all the security given.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hostages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.