1 The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has seized him.
2 Arthur was next to me, and if I had not seized his arm and held him up, he would have fallen.
3 If I had not seized him just at the moment I believe he would have killed the man there and then.
4 When he saw me he became furious, and had not the attendants seized him in time, he would have tried to kill me.
5 I seized some of the firewood which was by me, and holding out some of the Wafer, advanced on them towards the fire.
6 It was a terrible blow; but he did not seem to mind it, but seized him also, and struggled with the three of us, pulling us to and fro as if we were kittens.
7 It almost seems as though the captain had been seized with some kind of mania before he had got well into blue water, and that this had developed persistently throughout the voyage.
8 There was no lethal weapon at hand, but I seized a shovel which the workmen had been using to fill the cases, and lifting it high, struck, with the edge downward, at the hateful face.
9 Arthur was so taken aback that he did not for a moment know what to do or say; and before any impulse of violence could seize him he realised the place and the occasion, and stood silent, waiting.
10 All at once that shifty look came into his eyes which we always see when a madman has seized an idea, and with it the shifty movement of the head and back which asylum attendants come to know so well.
11 For a moment I thought that he might have some homicidal intent; I remembered how quiet he had been just before he attacked me in my own study, and I took care to stand where I could seize him at once if he attempted to make a spring at her.