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Definition of Capturing
1. capture [v] - See also: capture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capturing
Literary usage of Capturing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1868)
"... tearing up a small portion of the latter and capturing a good part of Jackson's
wagon trains. On the fifteenth, while we were halting at the base of the ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"We followed as rapidly as possible, capturing about one thousand ... We continued
the charge several miles, capturing, killing, or dispersing nearly the ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He also invaded Babylonia, inflicting a heavy blow on the Babylonian king,
Marduk-nadin-ahhe and his army, and capturing several important cities, ..."
4. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"... and had fought against them in defiance of the treaty. capturing There soon
arose another cause of quarrel between the 56. Athenians and Peloponnesians. ..."
5. The Principles of Chess in Theory and Practice by James Mason (1896)
"capturing. All the Pieces capture as they move, ie, in their lines of movement, and,
... Her capturing move in these circumstances would be written QxP, ..."
6. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"... and Giraffe—Lion and Hottentot—Andersson and a Lion—Livingstone's narrow
Escape—Lion-Hunting in the Atlas—By the Bushmen—capturing their Young—Former ..."
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