seizin

• “Janooary wan, Private Dooley distinguished himsilf at th' Battle iv Ogoowan in th 'island iv Samar be rushin' out in a perfect hell iv putty-balls, rice, arrers, an 'harsh cries, an' seizin 'th' gin'ral iv th 'Tamalese an' batin 'him over th' head with his own bean-blower.”

  Observations By Mr. Dooley

• “The old conveyance of feoffment, with livery of seizin—the turf and twig—clearly had to go.”

  Simon & Schuster: A History of American Law

• “No wonder he was making such a fuss of hunting for whoever was responsible-and then seizin" on yon poor woman who couldna even speak for herself.”

  Drums of Autumn

• “Sussex, and others, to deliver seizin of all his lands in Sussex to certain persons therein named.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850

• “But, before this, William was to show himself as a warrior beyond the bounds of his own duchy, and to take seizin, as it were, of his great continental conquest.”

  William the Conqueror

• “For on landing the Portuguese, guided by Morales, soon found the wooden cross and grave of the Englishman and his mistress, and it was there that Zarco, with no human being to dispute his title, "took seizin" of the island in the name of King John, Prince Henry, and the”

  Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.

• “After this feast, the King brought the Count of Poitiers to Poitiers, that he might take seizin of his fiefs, but when the King was come to Poitiers, he would gladly have been back again in Paris; for he found that the Count of La Marche, who had eaten at his table on Saint John's day, had got together a number of men-at-arms at Lusignan by Poitiers.”

  The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville

• “Yes, and bringing them to shore he led them, unerring, to the wooden cross above the beach; and there, over the grave of these lovers, Zarco took seizin of the island in the name of King John of Portugal, Prince Henry, and the”

  Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756

• “A god -- if we may suppose one of the old careless Olympians seated there on the cliff-top, nursing his knees -- must have enjoyed the comedy of it, and laughed to think that this pert beetle, edging its way along the sand amid the eternal forces of nature, was here to take seizin of them -- yes, actually to take seizin and exact tribute.”

  Lady Good-for-Nothing

• “So she nursed the project in her own heart, and when the three had taken seizin of the northern hill, eaten their manchets of saffron cake, and shared their canful of milk, she took up a post from which, while the others scanned the offing for Spaniards, she could watch and time the ebb of the tide on the flats.”

  Major Vigoureux

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