Seiz'd

Seiz'd with affright, their gates they first explore;

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Its a place of No Strength now, by reason of ye Castle being ruined and the fortifications neglected and the Gunns taken thence, tho 'by most its thought the best scittuated port for Shipps to Ride and take their provision in and so Capable of tradeing; but the last 2 Reignes for near 40 year discourag'd it being a proper place for the french to have Seiz'd and Secured for themselves.

Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

Seiz'd both the dead, and stripp'd their armour off.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834

Seiz'd 'mid the press; his eyes were clos'd in death.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834

Seiz'd on the dead, and forward urg'd their course.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834

Seiz'd his sceptre, and cried, "Fellow soldiers, come on."

The Devil at Malmaison; An Ode on St. Napoleon's Day . . . 1809

Seiz'd on the Maid whose curdling blood stood still.

Poems, 1799 Robert Southey 1808

Seiz'd in the hour of woe and tribulation, Thou, with the guiltless victim of thy love, didst Rock on the surges.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804

(Edward Bishop and his Wife having made their Escape out of Prison) this day Mr. Corwin the Sheriff, came and Seiz'd his Goods, and Cattle, and had it not been for his second Son (who borrowed Ten Pound and gave it him) they had been wholly lost, the Receipt follows; but it seems they must be content with such a Receipt as he would give them.

"More Wonders of the Invisible World," by Robert Calef, 1700 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 1693

Seiz'd with fome dire diforder, and anon Cut off by death's relentlefs hand; he mourns 1

The Process and Empire of Christ: From His Birth to the End of the Mediatorial Kingdom; a Poem ... Elhanan Winchester 1793