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Meanings of long captivity in English

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Usage of long captivity in English
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Probably you are all familiar with the reason for my long captivity.
Betty Zane
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Her image has been a dear source of consolation in this long captivity.
Zenobia; or, the Fall of Palmyra
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The Taliban's proof-of-life recordings have fuelled speculation on the effects of his long captivity.
Reuters
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The Taliban's proof-of-life recordings have fueled speculation on the effects of his long captivity.
Reuters
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It has procured us our liberty, who were doomed, I feared, to a long captivity.
Count Ulrich of Lindburg: A Tale of the Reformation in Germany
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Into a long captivity, he added sharply.
Empire of Ivory
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They had been so exhausted by long captivity, that at first they seemed scarcely to comprehend freedom.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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The Israelites, during their long captivity in Babylon, lost as a body, their knowledge of their own language.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4
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A band of crippled men, returning from Germany after a long captivity, had just been brought in there.
The New Book of Martyrs
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He fears now, at least, a long captivity, but a war may bring his doom suddenly on him.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
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Benan and the others liberated with him were still stressed by the long captivity and bewildered by recent events.
Beyond The Frontier: Dreadnaught
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The French officers congratulated us warmly on our wonderful escape, they having heard from Ben of our long captivity.
Saved from the Sea; Or, The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Sa...
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I had nothing now to do but resign myself to all the horrors of long captivity, and to the sentence of death.
My Ten Years' Imprisonment
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She would be weary now, and worn with this long captivity, her forces impaired; despondent, perhaps, as knowing there was no hope.
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2
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Then came the retribution, in the long captivity in Babylon, and the beginning of a new and better life under this hard discipline.
Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology
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It came forth as a cloud of dark mist, the state to which its long captivity in the Tangle Box had reduced it.
The Tangle Box
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