seize

• He stretched out his arm to seize the projecting arris of a larger block than ordinary, and so help himself up, when his hand lighted plump upon a substance differing in the greatest possible degree from what he had expected to seize--hard stone. —  A Pair of Blue Eyes
• Poland wellnigh regained a smothered nationality through an inspiration, which never could have been evoked, in a plan to seize from the Russian domain a grand estate, upon which to establish an original Poland To have held but to have lost New York, would simply show the defects of the defence, and the margin wanting in ability to retain, while no less suggesting how, in turn, it might be regained, at the right time, by adequate means and methods. —  The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884
• The law in these cities is sharp and vigilant; they will seize, they will slay me For what purpose, then, thy herbs and thy potions, vain Saga?' —  Last Days of Pompeii
• They must therefore seize, as a boon from heaven, the opportunities which offered for settling their girls with such wealth. —  The Ball at Sceaux
• It brought vague memories to Isabelle's mind that she tried in vain to seize--she felt as if she must be looking at it in a dream. —  Captain Fracasse

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