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  • That's what everybody keeps saying, that this time they've got Killer Kane where they want him, in violation of parole, in violation of a restraining order, abduction of a minor, and two counts of attempted murder, me and the Heroic Biker Babe, which is what the papers took to calling Loretta Lee.†   (source)
  • She was one of a few professionals specializing in the field of reunification in abduction cases.†   (source)
  • "Before that wight died, he told us why they've been abducting so many ymbrynes.†   (source)
  • The knowledge was more galling than the bare fact of his abduction.†   (source)
  • We finally know the name of the girl who we watched the Capitol abduct from the woods of 12, the fate of the Peacekeeper friend who tried to keep Gale alive.†   (source)
  • He quickly found the more arcane sites: alien abduction, UFO sightings and the supernatural.†   (source)
  • So here I am in English, and everybody is whisper-ing about me and pointing at me like I'm a victim of alien abduction or something, and my dad expects me to sit here and let them, because I'm a princess and that's what princesses do.†   (source)
  • He looked like a one-eyed pirate abducting hostages to be ransomed later.†   (source)
  • I think alien abductions are very possible.†   (source)
  • Some college football coach, and quite possibly more than one college football coach, had gone to the NCAA and accused the Tuohys of abducting Michael and showering him with possessions in exchange for becoming the future left tackle of the Ole Miss Rebels.†   (source)
  • He's basically the core of this whole program to prevent abductions.†   (source)
  • "What does this Capricorn do when he's not stealing books and abducting people's fathers?" she asked.†   (source)
  • And that was what Baby Kochamma in Inspector Thomas Mathew's office, enhanced and embroidered into threats of murder and abduction.†   (source)
  • We believe he's responsible for abducting and killing at least four children so far, all girls, all under the age of ten.†   (source)
  • I went over the stuff about Evie as well—the attempted abduction-just in case she'd forgotten.†   (source)
  • Are you—is this an abduction, or a missing persons case, or what exactly is going on?†   (source)
  • It was hardly surprising then that we assumed the woods would be central in the plot to abduct Miss Geraldine.†   (source)
  • One of the ways in which the giants could destroy Midgard was by abducting Freyja, the goddess of fertility.†   (source)
  • "There have been some books, some articles, some reports—but most of them hit somewhere between alien abductions and sightings of Bigfoot," Quinn explained.†   (source)
  • If we can gather enough spellcasters around you, Eragon, I believe we can finally kill Murtagh and Thorn the next time they come to abduct the pair of you.†   (source)
  • The means that she had used to accomplish this abduction Were beneath or perhaps beyond them, but their eyes briefly accused Vivaldo of betrayal, then narrowed against a dream or a nightmare, and turned away.†   (source)
  • Word of his supposed disappearance spread, and Faryen's abduction and presumed execution was eventually reported by the BBC as an example of the harassment of government officials by rebels.†   (source)
  • Is this an abduction?†   (source)
  • I stood there for a second, and then I stalked off to my room, muttering about alien abductions.†   (source)
  • "I would like, God willing, to take on cases of abduction," she said simply.†   (source)
  • Hoerni was keen to hear every detail and Mortenson described the abductions by jeep, the duplicate dinner in Khane, the entire yak Changazi had served in Kuardu, and then brought him up to the present.†   (source)
  • And that brings me back to my alien abduction theory, which I'm starting to consider as a real possibility, when he speaks.†   (source)
  • Following a song and scene called "The Abduction," where Aldonza is kidnapped, and, it is implied, gang-raped, Don Quixote comes upon her after she has been discarded by her captors.†   (source)
  • Or maybe someone had just snuck on the school grounds after brutally killing Chris Ford and abducting Brad Higeons, and now they were sneaking off again, and if I confronted him/her I'd be murdered, too.†   (source)
  • "If there isn't another killing or abduction for a while.†   (source)
  • The abducting has been going on steadily since Friday morning, when Dr. and Dr. Burton-Rob's parents-arrived to attend some of his classes.†   (source)
  • ON THE THIRD WEEK of Ghosh's abduction, I walked to the front gate in the morning, just as St. Gabriel's sounded the hour, which was Gebrew's command to allow entrance.†   (source)
  • What did Kahlid, who had been very thoughtful in this abduction, hope to gain by making this particular choice?†   (source)
  • The circus is definitely in town, I thought, as I drove into Union, South Carolina, to cover what an editor had described as "that horrific abduction down in South Carolina."†   (source)
  • "Perhaps you would like to tell me what caused this furor, guard?" the Mede asked, and Teleus hesitated, but could see no justification in not reporting the abduction of the queen.†   (source)
  • Did you see the hags abduct Dr. Rasmussen?†   (source)
  • We go back and forth for the next hour thinking up wild scenarios for seeing each other, including a faked alien abduction, triggering the citywide tornado alarm, and digging an underground tunnel that would stretch from his side of town to mine.†   (source)
  • And with us needing the humans and having to abduct them just to stay alive…. that won't just go away.†   (source)
  • 'You're describing a spreading crisis situation mounted in the face of Marie's abduction, then sending it off the wire with lies.†   (source)
  • Murder, rape, abduction, man hunts.†   (source)
  • Reich flipped through the pages of the notebook… ABDUCTION… ANARCHISTS… ARSONISTS… BRIBERY (PROVEN)… BRIBERY (POTENTIAL)… Under (POTENTIAL) he found the names of fifty-seven prominent people.†   (source)
  • The Abduction of Mother, ...   (source)
    abduction = the taking away of someone against their will
  • ...and I wondered (a deeper, darker thought) if some curse had not befallen my husband, some curse that is said to afflict some men, and that if, in his twisted, self-centered way, he had attributed that curse to Sukeena, and that this explained her abduction by the police and therefore, quite possibly, my missing daughter.   (source)
  • CHAPTER 4: ABDUCTION Artemis's main problem was one of location — how to locate a leprechaun.†   (source)
  • "Abductions on the kingsroad and drunken slaughter in my streets," the king said.†   (source)
  • So immediately you take all child abduction, rape, murder, and you reduce it by 99 percent.†   (source)
  • We have, what, twelve thousand abductions a year?†   (source)
  • He had come to respect the older warrior since Nasuada's abduction and Eragon's departure.†   (source)
  • She trusted in her ability to take care of herself, even after her abduction.†   (source)
  • And I fail to see what that has to do with my abduction.†   (source)
  • For the first time since Nasuada's abduction, he felt a sense of purposeful direction.†   (source)
  • His abduction was coming back into focus, Ryan thought.†   (source)
  • The details of his abduction in Iraq could not play a part in winning them back.†   (source)
  • I don't want Reich to know I'm abducting Hassop.†   (source)
  • Her abduction was my fault.†   (source)
  • We didn't know when the abduction would take place, but one thing we felt convinced about was that the woods would come into it.†   (source)
  • Maybe some crazy Latin teacher has been abducting children of the gods or something, making them think like Romans.†   (source)
  • My hope is to provide counseling and housing for families and victims of abductions and exploitations during the crucial early days of reconnection.†   (source)
  • Well, the theory is that the government has been allowing alien abductions in exchange for technology.†   (source)
  • We've also learned that they've used illegal methods to uncover the identities of gunters they consider a threat, with the intention of abducting and murdering them.†   (source)
  • Something about child abduction.†   (source)
  • Stranger abduction is very rare.†   (source)
  • Abduction!†   (source)
  • In the case of an abduction, the LEP will first send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.†   (source)
  • In the states where we've been testing the program, there's been an almost 90 percent drop in all crime, and a 100 percent drop in child abductions.†   (source)
  • That's it, abduction.†   (source)
  • No, worse — abduction!†   (source)
  • "He's going to prevent all abductions?"†   (source)
  • She had some vague recollection of a terrible child abduction and murder— Francis checked his watch, as if knowing that explaining Denmark would steal a minute from him.†   (source)
  • Nationwide, we've had only three abductions, total, and all were rectified within minutes, given our ability to track the location of the participating children."†   (source)
  • Pretty Sure Hearthstone's Dad Is a Cow-Abducting Alien IT WAS the nicest cop car I'd ever been in, and I'd been in quite a few.†   (source)
  • Recall what Miss Avocet told us: the wights have been raiding loops and abducting ymbrynes for weeks now.†   (source)
  • Again, my apologies for abducting you.†   (source)
  • Alien abductions.†   (source)
  • Karpoi grain spirits—those horrible little piranha Cupids—were rushing through the tall grass abducting campers at random, pulling them away from the line.†   (source)
  • He will know that once again he has been manipulated by government forces, manipulated in the most brutal fashion possible — the abduction of his wife.†   (source)
  • He told her he knew she was not telling the truth because his deputies were working drug surveillance at the crossroads where she said her children were stolen, the night of the alleged abduction.†   (source)
  • I wrote a story about that awful abduction on October 25, 1994, when a black man in a stocking cap jumped into her car at a dark crossroads, ordered her out at gunpoint, and sped away with her sons, Michael, four, and Alex, fourteen months, as the young mother fell to her knees in the road and screamed in rage and terror at those fading taillights.†   (source)
  • He's on his way to meet her — God knows where — but you'd better have some solid answers, unless you can establish the fact that he's a lunatic who may have killed his wife — which I hope you can — and that there was no abduction — which I sincerely hope there wasn't.'†   (source)
  • As we entered Chapel Hill, Sampson got to see for himself what the abductions and grisly murders had done to the once-peaceful college town.†   (source)
  • RYAN ROSE EARLY the morning after his weekly session with Father Hortense, feeling more refreshed than he'd felt since his abduction in Iraq.†   (source)
  • Around our third hour in the bar, Kate told a true story about herself that was almost as shocking to me as her abduction.†   (source)
  • Ricki had brushed the thoughts aside and focused on the one overriding objective they all had, regardless of Ryan's guilt or innocence in the abduction of his daughter.†   (source)
  • Between Celine's harrowing experience the night of the kidnapping during which BoneMan had broken her finger and Ryan's experience in the desert, the DA was ready to pin the abduction on him.†   (source)
  • Bethany wasn't sure how much time had passed, a day at least, enough time so that the initial terror of her abduction had passed, replaced by a dull anguish, a certainty of the inevitable pain awaiting her.†   (source)
  • Sending the storm spirits to abduct you—that was one.†   (source)
  • I was worried you were here to abduct me.†   (source)
  • "Vyes tried to abduct me before I met anyone from Rowan," said Max darkly.†   (source)
  • And did Bea Shrope, you, or your offspring abduct Mr. Rasmussen on the night in question?†   (source)
  • That they abduct beautiful women is only part of it.†   (source)
  • He was a slime who had chosen to abduct beautiful young students in their prime.†   (source)
  • I also attached a copy of the memo Sorrento had sent to the IOI board, suggesting that they abduct Art3mis and Shoto.†   (source)
  • Why do aliens want to abduct humans?†   (source)
  • In it, Sorrento proposed sending agents to abduct Art3mis and Shoto from their homes to force them to help ICI open the Third Gate.†   (source)
  • Why didn't we simply abduct her?'†   (source)
  • Do you think they really abduct people?†   (source)
  • You murder books, you abduct children!†   (source)
  • Technically, I didn't see them abduct anybody; I mean, he was already in the pot— That's true, Director!" interrupted Bellagrog.†   (source)
  • All his preparations at each location, the trailer, the truck, the manner in which he would abduct his next victim.†   (source)
  • Yet you yourself suspect an inmate of the house to have been accessory to the abduction.†   (source)
  • Bigger's eyes skimmed the words: "clandestine meetings offered opportunities for abduction," "police asked not to interfere in case," "anxious family trying to contact kidnappers"" and: It was conjectured that perhaps the family had information to the effect that Erlone knew of the whereabouts of Miss Dalton, and certain police officials assigned that as the motive behind the family's request for the radical's release.†   (source)
  • Many tales isolate and greatly enlarge upon one or two of the typical elements of the full cycle (test motif, flight motif, abduction of the bride), others string a number of independent cycles into a single series (as in the Odyssey).†   (source)
  • Someone may have seen him in the train with Wu Ling-murder is a very different thing from simple abduction.†   (source)
  • It seems unlikely in the last degree that he should connive at the abduction of the son of the house.†   (source)
  • This is Heaslop's punishment for abducting our witness in order to stop us establishing our alibi.†   (source)
  • I was at the performance and no one in the world but Erik could contrive an abduction like that!†   (source)
  • Love, murder, abduction, revenge, was the plot.†   (source)
  • LASSITER'S WAY Footprints told the story of little Fay's abduction.†   (source)
  • He had trailed Sellers to kill him for the supposed abducting of Jennie.†   (source)
  • What be seeks is a grievance, and this he had found in the supposed abduction of an old lady.†   (source)
  • Beasley's evil genius had planned this abduction.†   (source)
  • "Yes, my dear, the abduction is an accomplished fact," replied Eugenie.†   (source)
  • Then the idea of abducting you occurred to me.†   (source)
  • I warn you to refrain from provoking me, or I'll ask your abduction as a special favour!†   (source)
  • He immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the abduction of a child.†   (source)
  • From whom have you learned of the abduction of your wife?†   (source)
  • That young girl whom they were abducting was not to be brought back?†   (source)
  • The husband had presided at the abduction of his wife.†   (source)
  • I'm not a man whose name nobody knows, and who comes and abducts children from houses!†   (source)
  • Have you not said that that abduction was entirely political?†   (source)
  • That was the very evening when the abduction of Mme. Bonacieux took place.†   (source)
  • Describe to me your abduction, I pray you.†   (source)
  • The woman waved down at K. and by raising and lowering her shoulders she tried to show that she was an innocent party in this abduction, although the gesture did not show a lot of regret.†   (source)
  • I rose; I could scarcely resist a desire to kiss the hand of the lady in pink, but I felt that to do so would require as much audacity as a forcible abduction of her.†   (source)
  • Maybe they are abducting us!†   (source)
  • On the day of the abduction of Christine Daae, I did not come to the theater until rather late in the evening, trembling lest I should hear bad news.†   (source)
  • Then she shuddered at the significance of Dale's words regarding her possible abduction by this hired gang.†   (source)
  • Christine Daae's abduction in the Prison Act, which naturally surprised everybody, found me prepared.†   (source)
  • The old rajah's body, indeed, now appeared upon the burning pyre; and the priests, recovered from their terror, perceived that an abduction had taken place.†   (source)
  • As long as there was an English army between Brussels and Napoleon, there was no need of immediate flight; but he had his horses brought from their distant stables, to the stables in the court-yard of the hotel where he lived; so that they might be under his own eyes, and beyond the risk of violent abduction.†   (source)
  • "Harkee, friend Ishmael Bush," returned the bee-hunter, who found that he was expected to answer to the charge of burglary, as well as to that of abduction; "that I did not give the most civil treatment to your pots and pails, I am not going to gainsay.†   (source)
  • Pierre dined at the club that day and heard on all sides gossip about the attempted abduction of Rostova.†   (source)
  • One of Pierre's acquaintances, while they were talking about the weather, asked if he had heard of Kuragin's abduction of Rostova which was talked of in the town, and was it true?†   (source)
  • This could only be determined at the moment and the place themselves; but it was certain that the abduction must be made that night, and not when, at break of day, the victim was led to her funeral pyre.†   (source)
  • Only, during the respite the absence of his rival afforded him, he reflected, partly on the means of deceiving Mercedes as to the cause of his absence, partly on plans of emigration and abduction, as from time to time he sat sad and motionless on the summit of Cape Pharo, at the spot from whence Marseilles and the Catalans are visible, watching for the apparition of a young and handsome man, who was for him also the messenger of vengeance.†   (source)
  • The plan for Natalie Rostova's abduction had been arranged and the preparations made by Dolokhov a few days before, and on the day that Sonya, after listening at Natasha's door, resolved to safeguard her, it was to have been put into execution.†   (source)
  • Some time afterwards, it chanced that a police report was transmitted from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil.†   (source)
  • But their first vexation having passed off, Thenardier, with his wonderful instinct, had very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the abduction of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon himself, and upon many dark affairs which he had on hand, the glittering eye of justice.†   (source)
  • I have acquired certain knowledge that that woman was concerned in the abduction of Madame Bonacieux.†   (source)
  • I took advantage of a moment when they left me alone; and as I had known since morning the reason of my abduction, with the help of the sheets I let myself down from the window.†   (source)
  • Yes; but that abduction had for its object the betrayal of my mistress, to draw from me by torture confessions that might compromise the honor, and perhaps the life, of my august mistress.†   (source)
  • "And now I am convinced," said d'Artagnan, "that this abduction of the queen's woman is connected with the events of which we are speaking, and perhaps with the presence of Buckingham in Paris."†   (source)
  • Do you not perceive that I know all—your abduction from the little house at St. Germain, his despair, that of his friends, and their useless inquiries up to this moment?†   (source)
  • What reason have Nels and Nick to suspect Don Carlos of plotting to abduct me?†   (source)
  • And hurriedly he told of Beasley's plot to abduct Al Auchincloss's niece and claim the dying man's property.†   (source)
  • You have forgotten a wretch who tried to abduct you one night, a wretch to whom you rendered succor on the following day on their infamous pillory.†   (source)
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  • I spent my seventeenth birthday in Nigeria, showing solidarity with the schoolgirls abducted from their dormitory in the dead of night by Boko Haram militants in April.†   (source)
  • They wanted to be told that Laura had run away with a married man, or had been abducted by anarchists, or had been found dead in a checked suitcase in the baggage room.†   (source)
  • How many days do you suppose she'll last before she's abducted, raped, or tossed into some roadside ditch with her throat slit?†   (source)
  • This crazy kidnapper (a. k. a. Ares) was the same man who had abducted me and two other adolescents in New York and brought us across country on a ten-day odyssey of terror.†   (source)
  • She felt kind of under the weather for a month or two, but would not go to the doctor, then Loren kind of abducted her into the doctor's office, and he made the diagnosis.†   (source)
  • I was convinced that the Baby Jesus was somewhere in Owen's room, perhaps in company with Potter's prophylactic, which Owen had taken home with him but which was no more visible than the armadillo's claws, the abducted Prince of Peace, and the so-called instrument of my mother's death.†   (source)
  • When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens.†   (source)
  • It's easy for people to be horrified and shocked when someone is abducted, but what about all the other adults and kids living in sad homes?†   (source)
  • Thought you'd been abducted by wights or some barminess.†   (source)
  • And now his wife has abducted Tyrion Lannister, thanks to Little-finger's meddling.†   (source)
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  • The Lackses aren't the only ones who heard from a young age that Hopkins and other hospitals abducted black people.†   (source)
  • She had been abducted by two humans during the Ritual.†   (source)
  • A relative was abducted by the military, tortured, and released many months later.†   (source)
  • Probably abducted.†   (source)
  • I look over his shoulder and read the title: "Entire Montana Town Abducted by Aliens."†   (source)
  • I think one went to his aunt and uncle, and his two sisters were sent to some foster home, and then they were abducted from there.†   (source)
  • People get abducted and taken aboard.†   (source)
  • About how he and his men had abducted and tortured people for twenty years before the church had gone in and put an end to it.†   (source)
  • If your wife was indeed abducted—and we don't know that, but if it comes to that—we want to catch the guy, and when we catch the guy, we want to nail him, hard.†   (source)
  • "I thought you'd been abducted!†   (source)
  • It was not Murtagh's fault that the Twins had abducted him; that the red dragon, Thorn, had hatched for him; or that Galbatorix had discovered their true names, with which he extracted oaths of fealty in the ancient language from both Murtagh and Thorn.†   (source)
  • He explained that after leaving Perry he had gone to the Markl Buick Company, the firm that had once employed him, hoping to find a set of license plates to substitute for the hazardous Iowa plates on the abducted Chevrolet.†   (source)
  • I had a cat once that I think was abducted by aliens.†   (source)
  • I was beginning to think you'd been abducted or something.†   (source)
  • And the dismantling of Inner Delta is the major reason why the children have been abducted.†   (source)
  • She had the misfortune to be abducted.†   (source)
  • Instead, Woineshet--a battered, pint-sized girl surrounded by men who were threatening her--told the court official that she had been abducted, and she pleaded to be allowed to go home.†   (source)
  • Was he abducted because he was an infidel trespassing in a fundamentalist land?†   (source)
  • You'll get abducted.†   (source)
  • I don't have time to figure out why I'm here or what he's playing at with the fake, overwrought cheeriness, because he doesn't even take a breath, and I wonder if the real Josh Bennett has been abducted by aliens, or maybe the elves carted him off after they got done with my hair.†   (source)
  • Of course there is much speculation about these disappearances, especially since the medical examiner's report states that the cause of death of the other two abducted boys was blood loss from multiple bites and lacerations.†   (source)
  • They think our friendly squirrel abducted a Florida State cheerleader at this year's Orange Bowl.†   (source)
  • It was like the real Nelly had been abducted by little green men with a fondness for registered nurses who couldn't cook.†   (source)
  • Hema grabbed Genet by the arm and brought her into our house, leaving the rest of us to pacify Rosina who screamed to the world that her daughter was being abducted.†   (source)
  • Blacks shopped up front in the grocery; in fact, Tonya Hailey had bought a sack of groceries there and was walking the mile back to her home when she was abducted three years earlier.†   (source)
  • She was the captive of a man who shaved his whole body, applied lotion, and abducted girls so that he could break their bones.†   (source)
  • Two days after completing her assignment in October 2006, she was abducted and murdered.†   (source)
  • Lourdes took advantage of their confinement to tell Felicia how the shriveled tin peddler, who rattled by with his trolley at noon, abducted children to caves with flapping bats that nested in human hair.†   (source)
  • She'd have the Attolian abducted and dragged up the mountain if need be.†   (source)
  • There are whispers that he must be dead, of course, that he must have been abducted, that he'll be discovered in a shallow grave somewhere.†   (source)
  • I thought they might have abducted you and gave chase," said the man.†   (source)
  • They were free men until they were illegally abducted and pressed into servitude.†   (source)
  • While Jack was on leave taking care of Sophie, Hoagland told me how Jack had been abducted in Cyprus by a red insurgent faction in sixty-four.†   (source)
  • "They're humans abducted from the outside world.†   (source)
  • The world map, pinned on the same spot probably for several years, could have been an anatomical chart of an earthworm for all they knew When the announcer told the world that terrorists had abducted the American ambassador to Brazil, I put my finger on a big yellow blotch on the map and whispered, "This hunk of yellow on the map is the country of Brazil."†   (source)
  • "Perhaps she was abducted," says Miss Lydia dreamily.†   (source)
  • How could nobody have seen his father abducted if the incident occurred in the middle of town?†   (source)
  • In books, women are always being abducted.†   (source)
  • And even though we never abducted humans, that doesn't mean it's never been done.†   (source)
  • An entire Montana town abducted by aliens?†   (source)
  • "Thank you for having me abducted," Reyna said.†   (source)
  • The twins also abducted Murtagh and spirited him away to Galbatorix.†   (source)
  • Do you believe that the hags abducted Dr. Rasmussen with intent to eat?†   (source)
  • Two days after submitting her essay, Michelle was abducted and murdered.†   (source)
  • But then, I underestimated him once, which is why the lady got abducted.†   (source)
  • Can you attest that the hags abducted Dr. Rasmussen and tried to cook him?†   (source)
  • No more beautiful women had been abducted in North Carolina.†   (source)
  • The goddess Meridite abducted her daughter.†   (source)
  • If Naomi was abducted at a public garden right on the campus, there were no witnesses.†   (source)
  • Another shy lady who must have got abducted.†   (source)
  • The two of them abducted beautiful women, and then tortured or killed them.†   (source)
  • He had probably abducted some of the women by coming up to them as a police officer.†   (source)
  • She reminded me of the beautiful students Casanova had abducted in the South.†   (source)
  • The woman was slender and attractive, but she was older than the women who had been abducted.†   (source)
  • He'd think I'd lost my mind the way Grandpa had, or that I'd run away or been abducted or taken a nosedive off the cliffs.†   (source)
  • I know I owe the Garridos nothing and can't understand why Nancy's attorney felt it necessary to ask me to support the very people who abducted me.†   (source)
  • No—abducted.†   (source)
  • Why would an entire town be abducted?†   (source)
  • "I think my dad was abducted," he says.†   (source)
  • Or maybe he believes that if he searches long enough he'll finally come across an article that proves his father was abducted, and not only that, but that he can be saved.†   (source)
  • He began to have nightmares about the man who killed his donor—with details about the clothing the man wore, how he'd abducted the boy, where the murder weapon had been stashed.†   (source)
  • I expected him to keep talking, to ramble on about the stars or his adventures as an astronaut or the time he was abducted by aliens (which I might have believed), but he just lay there, staring at the corner of the Milky Way that was smeared right above us.†   (source)
  • She had watched her husband and two of her children murdered by Indians, and had herself been abducted.†   (source)
  • Now, as they headed back into the Olympian gods' territory, Percy remembered everything: the war with Kronos, his sixteenth birthday at Camp Half-Blood, his trainer Chiron the centaur, his best friend Grover, his brother Tyson, and most of all Annabeth—two great months of dating, and then BOOM He'd been abducted by the alien known as Hera.†   (source)
  • It looked, at first glance, like a science fiction movie: everyone had been in the middle of eating and chatting and joking around with friends, and then in the blink of an eye, all the humans were abducted by aliens, leaving only the artifacts behind.†   (source)
  • Now a nearly frantic urgency consumed him to get the man he'd abducted into whatever hole in the ground that BoneMan had prepared for them.†   (source)
  • Would you rather be here, now, Alan's mother liked to say, or abducted and living in the woods with one leg?†   (source)
  • She found the whole episode maudlin and self-pitying, and his weakness did nothing but inspire contempt in her until he recounted how the Twins had abducted him from Farthen Dar, how they had mistreated him on the way to Uru'baen, and how Galbatorix had broken him once they arrived.†   (source)
  • Five weeks ago, my client was abducted, assaulted, and on the verge of consumption by the defendants.†   (source)
  • She'd met the DA during his investigation of the BoneMan after the killer had abducted a girl from Bethany's high school, Saint Michael's Academy, where Celine served on the PTA board.†   (source)
  • The surf roared from below the chalky cliffs as Max threaded through the tall fir trees that dotted the coast, searching for any sign of the hags and their abducted quarry.†   (source)
  • Now I've abducted her back.†   (source)
  • A bulletin had already been circulated to the networks—the FBI now believed that the BoneMan had forcibly abducted Austin DA Burton Welsh from his home in the Spanish Oaks subdivision, west of Austin.†   (source)
  • Since 1981, beautiful and intelligent women from all over the South had been abducted by the two monsters and murdered.†   (source)
  • THE FOLLOWING afternoon I visited the Sarah Duke Gardens, the place where Naomi had been abducted six days ago.†   (source)
  • Casanova's latest victim was a first-year intern who'd been abducted from her apartment on the outskirts of Chapel Hill.†   (source)
  • Another student, a bright beautiful woman named Anna Miller, had been abducted from a garden apartment she shared with her lawyer-boyfriend near the State University of North Carolina in Raleigh.†   (source)
  • I read that she was abducted.†   (source)
  • They had been abducted.†   (source)
  • In spite of all your precautions he has been abducted on the twenty-ninth as I said.†   (source)
  • That child could have been abducted with the greatest ease any day for the last three years.†   (source)
  • Among the most perilous are those of the shamans of the peoples of the farthest north (the Lapps, Siberians, Eskimo, and certain American Indian tribes), when they go to seek out and recover the lost or abducted souls of the sick.†   (source)
  • She is the maiden of the innumerable dragon slayings, the bride abducted from the jealous father, the virgin rescued from the unholy lover.†   (source)
  • "That is likely," said d'Artagnan; "but the man who has abducted her—do you know him?"†   (source)
  • I know that you have been abducted, madame.†   (source)
  • Was the Mormon who had abducted Fay—the man with the cruel voice—was he among those eleven horsemen?†   (source)
  • One of the family is said to have abducted some beautiful woman, who tried to escape from the coach in which he was carrying her off, and in the struggle he killed her—or she killed him—I forget which.†   (source)
  • Mr. Price, does all this blooming fuss mean we are to be robbed or attacked or abducted by a lot of ragamuffin guerrillas?†   (source)
  • He even took his skis in the cablecar to the top of Schatzalp to glide about happily up there, abducted into a world of shimmering, powdery slopes, sixty-five hundred feet above sea level, from where in good weather he had a glorious panorama of the scene of his adventures.†   (source)
  • "Well!" resumed the citizen, "well, monsieur, my wife was abducted yesterday morning, as she was coming out of her workroom."†   (source)
  • "They have abducted her," added the commissary; "and do you know the man who has committed this deed?"†   (source)
  • And by whom was your wife abducted?†   (source)
  • You would have been summoned to the gate; you would have believed yourself about to meet friends; you would have been abducted, and conducted back to Paris.†   (source)
  • They have abducted her, monsieur.†   (source)
  • That cursed man, my evil genius, whom I have always met with when threatened by some misfortune, he who accompanied that horrible woman when I met her for the first time, he whom I was seeking when I offended our Athos, he whom I saw on the very morning Madame Bonacieux was abducted.†   (source)
  • He then related to his friends, word for word, all that had passed between him and his host, and how the man who had abducted the wife of his worthy landlord was the same with whom he had had the difference at the hostelry of the Jolly Miller.†   (source)
  • She had already decided upon seeing him and urging his immediate departure, when, on the very evening of coming to this decision, Mme. Bonacieux, who was charged with going to fetch the duke and conducting him to the Louvre, was abducted.†   (source)
  • The man who abducted my wife.†   (source)
  • The suspicion that it was she had crossed the mind of d'Artagnan when she drew the handkerchief from her pocket; but what probability was there that Mme. Bonacieux, who had sent for M. Laporte in order to be reconducted to the Louvre, should be running about the streets of Paris at half past eleven at night, at the risk of being abducted a second time?†   (source)
  • They have abducted her?†   (source)
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  • In the window, the boy grinned almost maniacally at his reflection, and in his shorts and tank top, he quietly abducted his older brother's bike and pedaled it up the street, heading for Hubert Oval.   (source)
    abducted = took someone away against their will
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