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Example sentences for "seized upon"

  • When a mineral is seized upon by the living plant and elevated to the organic kingdom, no trespass against Nature is committed.

  • When the heart of a man, again, is seized upon by the quickening Spirit of God, no further violence is done to natural law.

  • The weakness of Egypt, however, came thus to be known to the crafty and powerful caliphs of Bagdad, and in a short time its Asiatic dominions were seized upon by Noureddin and Saladin.

  • He seized upon a part of Galicia and Leon, repulsed the Mussulman troops who were sent to oppose him, and rendered himself master of several towns.

  • This was the greatest opportunity of his life, and he seized upon it.

  • He seized upon that, ridiculing himself for having looked right over the most simple and natural explanation of all.

  • Now he seized upon that as proving there was nothing the matter at all.

  • At the time that had been a mere conventional phrase, but now, in his exhilaration, he seized upon it as indisputable truth.

  • Every uncultivated spot on the lower levels has been eagerly seized upon as spaces where to bury the dead.

  • I ran out, seized upon my ruined doll, and came back to the house, crying over it in bitter grief.

  • All at once Fanny ceased barking, but crept close to me, seized upon my dress with her teeth and began to pull backward, almost tearing the fabric.

  • Upon his saying this, he named those that had such indignation; but the king ordered those men, with Tero himself and his son, to be seized upon immediately.

  • Hath any one been caught as he went out on this errand, or seized upon as he came back?

  • The clock at first gave him some trouble, until, pronouncing it to have a screw out of order, he seized upon one of my front teeth with a pair of pincers, and by a single wrench dissipated the delusion for ever.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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