"Abducting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for tracks of imaginary criminals bent on abducting the heiress he naturally drifted to this lonely spot; when Master Courage was bent on whispering sweet nothings into the ear of the other man's betrothed, he enticed her to that corner of the park where he was least like to meet the ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... von Mitter, "but for him no one knows what the end might have been. And I, thinking him one of the abducting party coming up from the rear, ...
— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath
... Saffir was forced to compromise, and be satisfied with the chief's assistance in abducting the girl, for it was not so difficult a matter to convince the head hunter that she really had belonged to the rajah, and that she had been stolen from him by the old ...
— The Monster Men • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... burned, and was cured. I knew it. I wanted to try the remedy. First I tried to have you forbidden the square in front of Notre-Dame, hoping to forget you if you returned no more. You paid no heed to it. You returned. Then the idea of abducting you occurred to me. One night I made the attempt. There were two of us. We already had you in our power, when that miserable officer came up. He delivered you. Thus did he begin your unhappiness, mine, and his own. Finally, no longer knowing what to do, ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... matter so wholly from Sher Singh's point of view as to consider him justified in killing not only poor Charteris, but Gerrard as well, for the offence of abducting his stepmother." ...
— The Path to Honour • Sydney C. Grier |
