seizeth

“O Commander of the Faithful, it is because of a twitch that seizeth me betimes.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Eternal One, whom nor slumber nor sleep seizeth on!

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Now he was a sturdy, stout, broad-shouldered wight, fat and in full vigour; so he pleased the giant, who seized him, as a butcher seizeth a beast, and throwing him down, set his foot on his neck and brake it; after which he fetched a long spit and thrusting it up his backside, brought it forth of the crown of his head.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Melancholy seizeth on them forthwith being alone, and is such a torture, that as wise Seneca well saith, Malo mihi male quam molliter esse, I had rather be sick than idle.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

But howsoever this passion of sorrow be violent, bitter, and seizeth familiarly on wise, valiant, discreet men, yet it may surely be withstood, it may be diverted.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

[1750] Ingress, progress, regress, egress, much alike: blindness seizeth on us in the beginning, labour in the middle, grief in the end, error in all.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Who seizeth on it, doth neither gulch up nor swill down, but takes away what hath been packed up, catcheth, snatcheth, and plies the play of hey-pass, repass.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Who seizeth on it, doth neither gulch up nor swill down, but takes away what hath been packed up, catcheth, snatcheth, and plies the play of hey-pass, repass.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Diodorus Siculus, speaking of a country where Alexander the Great had to do with Porus, hath this passage; "There are serpents there which, by their bites would occasion most bitter deaths: they are horrible pains that afflict any that are struck by them, and an issue of sweat, like blood, seizeth them."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

'God,' says Mohammed, 'there is no god but He, the living, the self-subsistent, slumber seizeth Him not, nor sleep — His throne embraceth the heavens and the earth and none can intercede with Him save by His permission.

The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination 1959