Citations:seize


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * "Difficulty is behind, Fear is before, Though he's got on the hill, the lions roar; A Christian man is never long at ease, When one fright's gone, another doth him seize."


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If you had fallen up against him (as some of them did), on purpose, he would have made a feint of endeavouring to seize you, which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister.