"Seizin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... taken possession of the land which by God's help I hope to win!" Catching his humor, one of his knights tore a handful of thatch from a neighboring cottage, and put it into his hand, saying, "Sir, I give you seizin of this place, and promise that I shall see you lord of it before a month ...
— Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... writ is issued the destruction by a defendant of any document in his possession relating to the action is a grave contempt, for which a duchess was lately sent to prison. There is something majestic about this. No sooner is the aid of a court of law invoked than it assumes a seizin of every scrap of writing which will assist it in its investigation of the matter at issue between the parties, and to destroy any such paper is to obstruct the court in its holy task, ...
— In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays • Augustine Birrell
... Scotland greetin owre her thrissle; Her mutchkin stowp as toom's a whissle; An' damn'd excisemen in a bussle, Seizin a stell, Triumphant crushin't like ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns
... seat, whereat a bulky Italian immediately sank into it; and as livery of seizin he appropriated the comic section of Mr. Kamin's Sunday paper, which had fallen to the floor of the car, and spread it wide open ...
— Elkan Lubliner, American • Montague Glass
... ought to be on the same level, and that nobody ought to have more of anything than anybody else; he's a rare hand at preachin' about equality and the rights o' man, is 'Welshy', and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it turned out that 'twas he as first give Mr Bainbridge the idee of seizin' the ship. And even if he wasn't, I know that he is pretty well mixed up in it, for he was everlastin'ly yarnin' about the hardships and wrongs of sailormen, and throwin' out hints, like. I didn't take no notice of 'em at the ...
— Turned Adrift • Harry Collingwood
... chamber, he drew back, and wrapping round him more closely the gown of fur that had been thrown over his shoulders, he muttered low,—"Nay, if there be on me yet one speck of English dust, let it rest there!—seizin, Fitzosborne, seizin, of the English land." Then, waving his hand, he dismissed all his attendants except Fitzosborne, and Rolf, Earl of Hereford [49], nephew to Edward, but French on the father's side, ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
