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to take someone away against their will- this muscle abducts
- 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.David Almond -- Clay
- He looked like a one-eyed pirate abducting hostages to be ransomed later.Stephen King -- The Shining
- She had watched her husband and two of her children murdered by Indians, and had herself been abducted.Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
- [* The Abduction of Mother, a possible reference to Mozart's opera The Abduction from the Seraglio.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- "Yes, my dear, the abduction is an accomplished fact," replied Eugenie.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- And that was what Baby Kochamma in Inspector Thomas Mathew's office, enhanced and embroidered into threats of murder and abduction.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- LASSITER'S WAY Footprints told the story of little Fay's abduction.Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage
- They were free men until they were illegally abducted and pressed into servitude.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- This is Heaslop's punishment for abducting our witness in order to stop us establishing our alibi.E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
- Murder, rape, abduction, man hunts.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- People get abducted and taken aboard.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- I was at the performance and no one in the world but Erik could contrive an abduction like that!Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
- Thought you'd been abducted by wights or some barminess.Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Then the idea of abducting you occurred to me.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- And with us needing the humans and having to abduct them just to stay alive.... that won't just go away.Bella Forrest -- A Shade of Vampire
- Her abduction was my fault.Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo
- Was the Mormon who had abducted Fay—the man with the cruel voice—was he among those eleven horsemen?Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
- 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.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- I thought they might have abducted you and gave chase," said the man.Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan