1 Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.
2 He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious.
3 Here a lonely heart broke, and a worn spirit went to its rest, after thirty-seven years of solitary captivity.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContext Highlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 4 The very madness of the Abbe Faria, gone mad in prison, condemned him to perpetual captivity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 5 Often, before his captivity, Dantes' mind had revolted at the idea of assemblages of prisoners, made up of thieves, vagabonds, and murderers.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 6 He was, perhaps, about to regain his liberty; at the worst, he would have a companion, and captivity that is shared is but half captivity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27. 7 The stranger might have numbered sixty or sixty-five years; but a certain briskness and appearance of vigor in his movements made it probable that he was aged more from captivity than the course of time.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian. 8 When Dantes returned next morning to the chamber of his companion in captivity, he found Faria seated and looking composed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 9 This idea was one of vengeance to me, and I tasted it slowly in the night of my dungeon and the despair of my captivity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 10 You are the child of my captivity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 18. The Treasure. 11 We must now only think of you, my dear friend, and so act as to render your captivity supportable or your flight possible.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 19. The Third Attack. 12 He found with pleasure that his captivity had taken away nothing of his power, and that he was still master of that element on whose bosom he had so often sported as a boy.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 13 Then his eyes lighted up with hatred as he thought of the three men who had caused him so long and wretched a captivity.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen. 14 , when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects, who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate oppression.
15 Even the very place of his captivity was uncertain, and his fate but very imperfectly known to the generality of his subjects, who were, in the meantime, a prey to every species of subaltern oppression.