English vocabulary examples in context: abduct
Vocabulary in context: abduct -- Example 1.
At once the ladies hastened to inform him of the events related, adducing therewith full details both as to the purchase of dead souls and as to the scheme to abduct the Governor's daughter; after which they departed in different directions, for the purpose of raising the rest of the town.
Vocabulary in context: abduct -- Example 2.
Again, to the question of whether or not Chichikov had schemed to abduct the Governor's daughter, and also whether it was true that he, Nozdrev, had undertaken to aid and abet him in the act, the witness replied that, had he not undertaken to do so, the affair would never have come off.
Vocabulary in context: abduct -- Example 3.
I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and who comes and abducts children from houses!
Vocabulary in context: abduct -- Example 4.
That young girl whom they were abducting was not to be brought back?
Vocabulary in context: abduct -- Example 5.
People persisted, however, in gossiping about Stavrogin, saying that the murdered woman was his wife; that on the previous day he had “dishonourably” abducted a young lady belonging to the best family in the place, the daughter of Madame Drozdov, and that a complaint was to be lodged against him in Petersburg; and that his wife had been murdered evidently that he might marry the young lady.
Vocabulary in context: abduct -- Example 6.
It must be that you are departing unwillingly; it must be that you are being abducted against your will; it must be that you are sorry for me; it must be that--that you LOVE me!...
Vocabulary in context: abduct -- Example 7.
When a Duke of Guise had to be killed, the pretty Presidente of Sylvecane abducted, or the cries of little girls brought thither by Lebel smothered, such places were convenient for the purpose.
