How To Use Captivity In A Sentence
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The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Phoenix, for so Peter had dubbed the haggard in memory of his and Jenny's first discussion of the bennu hieroglyph in the Egyptian Museum, had known the ecstasy of freedom and had a look about her that definitely said she preferred the wild to captivity.
From This Beloved Hour
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Were the families of those who did not survive captivity fairly compensated?
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Many of this species in captivity have been hybridised with the Satyr tragopan, since the females look so similar.
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That was one of the talents I - as Jake, never Andrew - had acquired over the two years of captivity, both in the juvie circuit and out.
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Those wishing to breed the baraband parakeet in captivity should house pairs separately in long, spacious aviaries so they don't become overly fat.
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Both worked in a classified military training program known as sere — for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape — which trains soldiers to endure captivity in enemy hands.
Rorschach and Awe
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Tropical marine invertebrates, unlike marine fish which are notoriously difficult to successfully breed in captivity, are far more accommodating.
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Some find themselves utterly transformed by their longing for each other, and they dwell in a sort of blissful paradox, imprisoned, yet unmoored from the structure of their outside lives, so that their mutual captivity becomes a new kind of freedom.
Best of 2009
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Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
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It is often difficult to get animals to mate in captivity.
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Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus's Romans, who 'called it peace when they had made a desert.'
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
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Stella, raised in captivity and used to humans - who Jenny says she thinks are falcons - isn't part of the release program but serves as one wof the fund's goodwill ambassadors.
Eastern Echo BETA
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Then finding no longer any refuge from inevitable captivity, except in the waters of the Elster, the brave prince had thrown himself into it without considering the impassable steepness of the opposite bank, and in a few moments he with his horse was ingulfed beneath the waves.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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As the Davidic epoch is the point of the covenant-people's highest glory, so the captivity is that of their lowest humiliation.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Bethel and Cynthia, brown Kodiak Bear sisters whom zookeepers said are among the oldest in captivity, started their birthday at Sydney's zoo with a special breakfast of fresh, whole salmon.
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Since it's very time consuming and inefficient to catch them in the wild, scientists rear the biocontrol agents in captivity on their host insect.
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Keep in mind that animals are also often traumatized by captivity and display bizarre behavior untypical of their kind unless treated with respect and dignity.
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And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the Lord.
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They come from southern Asia, and are the descendants of birds that were released or escaped from captivity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Little else has been gleamed from the Indianapolis native about his days in captivity.
Mobley, Joseph S.
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Thousands of the partridges, a native bird of Spain, are being bred in captivity and then released into the wild in Scotland.
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Perhaps my mom thought that I would inherently understand the historical and biological context connecting Harriet Tubman and me and conclude that the captivity of humans by humans was evil.
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Anne Savage, the park's senior conservation biologist, says understanding how pachyderms use vocalizations to communicate will help people better manage them in the wild and in captivity.
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Qodar says Paul and Rachel Chandler were well-treated for the first six months of their captivity, but their living conditions have deteriorated since.
Pirates to Hold British Couple Until Ransom Is Paid
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Captive condors do breed successfully in captivity.
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But fortunately, Peter gets hold of a rope and uses it as a noose with which to muzzle the wolf and take him into captivity.
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The birds have been bred in captivity and will be fitted with radio tags to monitor their survival.
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The maintenance of species in captivity in zoos, aquaria, and botanic gardens is sometimes called ex situ conservation.
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We need to be looked after, pampered, and allowed to breed in captivity with nubile young women.
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Now let your worships turn your eyes to that tower that appears there, which is supposed to be one of the towers of the alcazar of Saragossa, now called the now called the Aljaferia; that lady who appears on that balcony dressed in Moorish fashion is the peerless Melisendra, for many a time she used to gaze from thence upon the road to France, and seek consolation in her captivity by thinking of Paris and her husband.
Don Quixote
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Although they are now rare in the wild, Temminck's tragopans breed very well in captivity.
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But he was implicated in the Ridolfi plot in 1571, spent more years in captivity, and in the later 1570s lived in quiet retirement.
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So brainwashing became a pejorative, and the phrase ‘you've been brainwashed,’ a term of reproach, as if the prisoner had become addlebrained, or a simpleton, during his captivity.
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In captivity the Syrian Hamster's solitary instinct prevails and once mature it will not normally accept the company of another hamster.
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So breeding in captivity is vital to ensure the species survival.
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One made, however, while he was in his own state is valid, if he returns, by the law of postliminium; if he dies in captivity it is valid by the lex Cornelia.
The Institutes of Justinian
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Former inmates lead you through prison cells and tell you powerful stories about the routines and punishments they endured during their captivity.
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They are kidnapped, and spend a terrifying four years together in grim captivity - polar opposites unexpectedly finding a passionate friendship and comradeship in adversity.
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Many zorilla families have been kept together in captivity, where mutual grooming appears common.
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He dragged himself clear only to walk into a German sentry on the edge of the town and be returned to captivity.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had malaria 46 times during captivity, although luckily not while I was in the cage.
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Dodos kept in captivity could just have been overfed, which is why they tended to look much fatter than other birds of a similar shape and size.
Bringing the dodo back to life
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5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden: and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith the Lord.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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He did not mourn his personal sin, of course, but that of his fellow repatriates - who had been freed from captivity only to inter-marry with idolatrous Canaanites.
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Rothfels reminds us of the troubling questions about animal captivity.
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Captivity for a dolphin is a life-long imprisonment.
Brenda Peterson: Japan: Stop Killing Our Evolutionary Elders and Help Save Our Oceans
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The trade is legal provided the carcasses are from animals bred in captivity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The only thing I can imagine might work is to put together a 'noah's arc' colllection of gulf coast species and breed them in captivity.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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This date marks the 200th Anniversary to the very day when the rebel leader ended his resistance and walked through the gates of Humewood and into captivity.
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The hostages are now entering their fourth week in captivity.
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His resolve was even more hardened to escape from captivity although it was impossible.
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He would occasionally fidget around in his chair restless from his captivity.
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Female cowbirds were held in captivity and released at the end of the breeding season.
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In my completely pragmatic opinion, the ability to intercross in captivity can be informative, but is just not meaningful enough or decisive, and certainly not a feasible way to attribute species status.
How many species? - The Panda's Thumb
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It was concerned by reports of a rising number of young orang-utans being kept in captivity in terrible conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a last glance at the unhappy man to whom I had grown attached in a way during our time of joint captivity and trial, I took the arm of the old Hottentot, or rather leant upon his shoulder, for at first I felt too weak to walk by myself, and picked my path with him through the stones and skeletons of elephants across the plateau eastwards, that is, away from the lake.
The Ivory Child
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However, there is no explicit connection - the verse about captivity and the sword may serve as a divider between two passages about beasts, rather than a connective statement.
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Four Western tourists held by armed guerrillas in Kashmir began their seventh month in captivity today.
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When all you could remember was captivity, freedom didn't hold that much appeal.
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The behaviour of animals in captivity was explained, as the students listened in rapt attention.
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Pandas rarely mate in captivity.
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Some Australian bird species or parrot species will breed quite happily here in captivity.
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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Archive 2007-12-01
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Wild animals do not always breed well in captivity.
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To acquire the friendship of their emirs, the two factions vied with each other in baseness and profusion: the dexterity of Cantacuzene obtained the preference: but the succor and victory were dearly purchased by the marriage of his daughter with an infidel, the captivity of many thousand Christians, and the passage of the Ottomans into Europe, the last and fatal stroke in the fall of the Roman empire.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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These animals rarely thrive in captivity.
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The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity.
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David Alroy is represented as the last male descendant from the house of David, and the Prince of the Captivity among the eastern Jews in the twelfth century, resident at
A Review of 'Alroy'
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A Dutch primatologist and professor at Emory University, Frans de Waal was trained in classical ethology and has decades of experience with the behavior of our nearest relations in captivity.
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If Amber does make a full recovery she will spend the rest of her life in captivity for her own protection.
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Lord hast taken of me; in that unshaken firmness which is given me in my sufferings, in a perfect tranquillity in the midst of a furious tempest, which assaults me on every side; in an unspeakable joy, enlargedness and liberty which I enjoy in a most straight and rigorous captivity.
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
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They are quite vocal. It is difficult to raise in captivity and the death-rate is about 75%.
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These animals rarely thrive in captivity.
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Safari World's general manager insists that all his apes were acquired through the proper channels, or bred in captivity.
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House of Commons and the Admiralty — Author attempting to cut out a Spanish zebec, is taken prisoner — His pleasant experiences while in captivity — At last released.
A Sailor of King George
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Children were held in captivity until British soldiers entered the village.
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All this Rose saw and watched with the highest glee, -- finding her own little, quiet means of promoting such accidents, -- and rejoicing (as sisters will, where the enslaver is a friend) in the captivity of poor
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
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Most animals' basic needs can be met in captivity if conditions are sufficiently favourable.
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There are less than a dozen white abalones in captivity.
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Claims USAF MSgt retired, held and escaped from Laos after captivity March 70-Aug 70
Heroes or Villains?
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How should I doe otherwayes, for I practized Cleopatria, when shee was in hir captivity, and could they have thought mee worthy to have adorned their Tryumphs, I would have perform'd his gallant Tragidye, and soe have made myselfe glorious for tyme to come.
Three Hundred Years Hence
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Patas, talapoins, and mangabeys are also found in captivity with some frequency, and patas are also called hussar, military, or mustached monkeys by some exhibitors.
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The birds have been successfully reared in captivity.
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Two decades ago, the species was officially extinct outside of captivity—the last wild takhi was seen wandering the Mongolian steppes back in 1969—though a few lived in zoos in Europe.
Wild Horses Drag You Away
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Fewer than a third survived captivity.
The Sun
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She talks of her confrontational attitude toward them during the early days of her captivity.
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The trade is legal provided the carcasses are from animals bred in captivity.
Times, Sunday Times
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So breeding in captivity is vital to ensure the species survival.
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Experts cautioned that it may be some time before the victims feel strong enough to discuss the details of their captivity.
Times, Sunday Times
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And in Fox River T - Bag hears an inmate talk about " the captivity of negativity. ".
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After three and a half years in captivity, only one-third of the prisoners were still alive.
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Giant tortoises in captivity can live to 175 years old.
Times, Sunday Times
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Experts cautioned that it may be some time before the victims feel strong enough to discuss the details of their captivity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having been in captivity since she was born, her parents never cared a lick about sex education.
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Madonna's a neo-Kabbalist (and her "tatooing yourself with Hebrew letters gives you magic powers to disappear from 007's North Korean captivity" version of the Kabbalah is certainly relevant to a discussion of cultural appropriation: -), I don't know about Mapplethorpe.
The Sacred Domain
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This now means that I've seen all extant camelid species (all in captivity, of course), though note that the species-level taxonomy of South American camelids is a little muddled (Kadwell et al. 2001).
Archive 2006-05-01
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Born in captivity, Brunhilda became the face of the controversial program when, as a saucy 9-month-old pup, she bounded from a cage in 1998 as one of the first wolves introduced into the wild.
Mjh's blog — 2005 — July
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The most widespread parrot in captivity today is the humble budgie.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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One of the greatest challenges for hatchery managers is to control the spread of fungus on fish held in captivity, particularly during autumn.
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Millions of dollars have been spent on condors, and a variety of groups have worked hard to get the birds to breed in captivity and to develop techniques for introducing captive-raised birds to the wild.
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Hudson's Bay Company, who took his captivity mighty ill and grew prodigious pot-valiant over his cups.
Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade
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Yet in captivity by reducing the quantity of water in which it is placed the young Axolotl can be forced to breathe air, and then it undergoes complete metamorphosis to the abranchiate condition.
Hormones and Heredity
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Wild animals don't breed well in captivity.
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Maddened by captivity, he became aware that his only escape lay in imitating his human jailers.
Times, Sunday Times
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TODD: U.S. special operations command tells us the training techniques for captivity have been updated since 9/11, much of it now focusing on what one official called nongovernmental detention.
CNN Transcript May 14, 2007
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The Oregon Zoo developed husbandry techniques to breed pygmy rabbits in captivity.
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Thus man, the giant who now held her in captivity, would shrink to the diminutiveness of a fairy; and she would experience, that his utmost force was unable to enchain her soul, or compel her to fear him, while he was destitute of virtue.
The Italian
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A New Caledonian crow in captivity learned how to bend a piece of straight wire into a hook to probe for food.
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Some of these observances will seem supererogatory or alien to us; but Newman's key point is that we ‘need not go out of the round of the day’ in order to enter into the divine service that frees us from captivity to our selfish desires.
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Keenan's poetic "An Evil Cradling," which he describes as a literary attempt to "imprison" insanity on paper in the same way he held it at bay while in captivity, topped The Sunday Times of London's bestseller list for nine weeks last year.
Best Sellers In Chains
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After nine years' captivity at Theodore's court he had escaped from Magdala and returned to his homeland.
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Adults are easy to keep in aquaria for they rarely climb out if well-treated, and will breed freely in captivity.
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Experts say that giant pandas raised in captivity can live for up to 35 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Poor Puttel, after gazing wistfully out of the window at the gaunt city cats skulking about the yard, would retire to the rug, and curl herself up as if all hope of finding congenial society had failed; while little Nick would sing till he vibrated on his perch, without receiving any response except an inquisitive chirp from the pert sparrows, who seemed to twit him with his captivity.
An Old-Fashioned Girl
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I met Brian just six months after he came out of captivity, and I was struck by how unsettled he seemed.
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One of his positions was that of prosector for the London Zoo, which meant that he had to dissect and preserve any zoo animals that died in captivity.
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Snakes that are housed together in captivity sometimes have little altercations over food.
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Of these courses only four returned after the captivity (Ezr 2: 34-39), which were again subdivided into twenty-four -- retaining the ancient name and order of each.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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During the Avignonian captivity and the Great Schism, Italy developed intellectual and confederative unity, imposing her laws of culture and of state-craft even on the Papacy when it returned to Rome.
Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
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They'll live for years yet, seeing how captivity has agreed with them," Collins elucidated.
CHAPTER XXVIII
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These, however, remain bounded by the captivity of our interpretive imagination to the representation of meaning in words.
AKMA’s Random Thoughts
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The baritone bassoon extended between the bassoon and the contra, and there is even a subcontra bassoon one octave lower than the contra bassoon in exceptionally rare captivity, possibly with a lamp shade.
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So saying, and the revulsion of his spirits rendering him unable to give almost any other signs of existence, Ursel sunk back upon his seat of captivity, and spoke not another word during the time that Alexius disembarrassed him of those chains which had so long hung about him, that they almost seemed to make a part of his person.
Count Robert of Paris
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Shortly after his release from captivity, he contemplates his pique at being served cold soup.
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We must now only think of you, my dear friend, and so act as to render your captivity supportable or your flight possible.
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The wild-eyed soldier rushed out like an animal released from captivity, and leaned along the railing, starting to laugh with uncontrollable joy.
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Tropical marine invertebrates, unlike marine fish which are notoriously difficult to successfully breed in captivity, are far more accommodating.
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It was the strong-hold of that fiery veteran, old Ali Atar, father-in-law of Boabdil; and here it was that the latter collected his troops, and sallied forth on that disastrous foray which ended in the death of the old alcayde and his own captivity.
The Alhambra
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This would mean that the morphological criteria on which extant supposed D. arnoldi and D. hololissa have been identified are utterly unreliable: an idea which matches suggestions that 'carapace morphology is sensitive to environmental conditions and that captivity can result in aberrant morphologies' (Palkovacs et al. 2003, p. 1409; see also Gerlach 2004b).
Archive 2006-02-01
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During his literal captivity as a prisoner of war in Kentucky, he becomes figuratively captivated by her sophistries, which are explicitly coded as American.
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If my foster-son be still held there, by the grace of heaven I will take him out of his captivity.
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The first time wild dog puppies delivered in captivity in the Park, was in 2001 January, when the mother delivered four pups.
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Somali pirates holding a British couple hostage said they would be allowed to celebrate Christmas, as the pair set to enter their 9th week in captivity, AFP reported Wednesday.
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‘I know that some aquarists have trouble with certain anemones proliferating in their aquarium, so at least some anemones reproduce in captivity,’ he said.
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The zoo is doing major conservation work, both in captivity and in the field.
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So it was that for Neel, no aspect of his captivity held greater terror than the thought of sharing a shit-hole with dozens of common prisoners.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh » Print
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For [6] when the ten Tribes were captivated, a Priest or the captivity was sent back to _Bethel_, by order of the King of _Assyria_, to instruct the new inhabitants of _Samaria_, in _the manner of the God of the land_; and the _Samaritans_ had the _Pentateuch_ from this Priest, as containing the law or _manner of the God of the land_, which he was to teach them.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John
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Animals in captivity frequently suffer severe mental anguish in confinement.
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The Crane Working Group sends in a member to seize one of the eggs, to be kept in an incubator and hatched in captivity for release at a later stage.
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The next three days of captivity are described over three chapters.
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The French withdrew, taking the pope with them as a prisoner, and he died in French captivity.
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Allied officers interned in the east German prison camp Oflag IVC - known as Castle Colditz - endure the privations of captivity while attempting to do the apparently impossible: escape.
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Now he speaks of the spiritual weapons given by God "unto the pulling down of fortifications", (4) "bringing into captivity every understanding (noema) unto the obedience of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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Medicinal leeches in captivity can live for many years, but nobody in my local hospital knows precisely how long.
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Nahari claimed that Shalit and his father should have utilized the first Saturday after he was freed from Hamas captivity to say the Gomel benediction of deliverance -- a Jewish prayer of thanks traditionally said by those who survived an adversity or were released from prison.
Rabbi Jason Miller: Gilad Shalit, Iran Hiker Josh Fattal And Freedom Of Religion
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Previously, primates had exhibited right-hand preferences in captivity but no handedness in the wild, leading scientists to speculate that they became lateralized through interacting with humans.
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The urine is likely to be obtained from foxes kept in captivity or those that have been shot by gamekeepers to protect their stock.
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His first eight days in captivity he spent in a room called the knobby room, a kind of torture room.
Nasmyth, John H. Jr.
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In the meantime, the bear that savaged Mitch also makes a return and is taken into captivity, bringing back another ghost from Einar's past.
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Tropical marine invertebrates, unlike marine fish which are notoriously difficult to successfully breed in captivity, are far more accommodating.
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Biologists live-captured dozens of owls, kestrels, hawks and peregrine falcons, which might have fed on poisoned rats, and temporarily held them in captivity.
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God, our Lord hath chastised thee in the works of his hands, confess thou to our Lord in his good things and bless thou the God of worlds that he may re-edify in thee his tabernacle, and that he may call again to thee all prisoners and them that be in captivity and that thou joy in omnia secula seculorum.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2
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The three cubs pictured above are believed to be the first set of polar bear triplets born in captivity.
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Luckily it had jettisoned its bomb load and the crew baled out to safety and captivity.
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The artificial structure of this list may be inferred from the following peculiarities: it contains eleven septenaries of names; three septenaries bring us from Jesus to the Captivity; three, from the captivity to the time of David; two, from David to Abraham; three again from the time of Abraham to the creation of man.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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This event should be observed by all the descendants of former bondmen and bondwomen, as we call to mind the beginning of our captivity and bondage in this country.
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Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
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The good Dutchman was released from his Algerine captivity (I imagine his figure looks like that of a slave amongst the Moors), and in his thank-offering to some godchild at home, he thus piously records his escape.
Roundabout Papers
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Visit to a Jamaican plantation — Condition of the slaves — A growl against the House of Commons and the Admiralty — Author attempting to cut out a Spanish zebec, is taken prisoner — His pleasant experiences while in captivity — At last released.
A Sailor of King George
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He remembers his long captivity at Bayeux.
1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
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Pandas rarely mate in captivity.
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La Calprenède, as we have seen, does not give Arminius's wife her usual name of Thusnelda, but, to obviate a complaint from readers who have heard of Varus, he invents a protest on "Herman sla lerman" part against that general, who has trepanned him into captivity and gladiatorship, and makes him warn Augustus that he will be true to the Romans _unless_
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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Those in Soviet captivity who survived would not return home for ten years.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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As well as an ideas sharing forum the conference is also a hub for marine research and conservation and includes experts who advise zoos and aquariums how to breed endangered species in captivity.
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But they all hoped he would appear at any moment, complete with a host of angels at his back, and deliver them from their captivity.
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Animals bred in captivity would probably not survive if they were released into the wild.
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Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacuss Romans, who called it peace when they had made a desert.
Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Thomas Carlyle
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The Soviet Union was inundated with foreign evangelists and missionaries commanding technological resources unimaginable to a church just emerging from captivity.
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It is called stereotypic behavior and it is, unfortunately, common among polar bears and other species in captivity.
Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles
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You don't train for freedom in conditions of captivity.
Times, Sunday Times
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The study deals with the habitat, reproduction characteristics and population dynamic, the socio-economic importance of the francolin hunt, the external morphological variability of francolins, the behaviour follow up of francolins raised in captivity and the nutritional value of francolin meat.
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This is only the second time that a shabrack tapir has been born in captivity in
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898
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In captivity, the hawk-headed parrot has a life span comparable to most other medium size parrots.
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Later in 1945, when in captivity, he spoke about the shooting to fellow prisoners.
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The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity.
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According to Xinhua, China's state news agency, this year more pandas have already been born in captivity than in any other year on record.
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he was held in captivity until he died
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These animals are suffering in zoos and dying in zoos because of captivity-induced conditions.
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Tilikum is the largest of the 42 orcas held in captivity in aquaria around the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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While some of the animals are kept in zoos, the Sumatran rhino is difficult to breed in captivity.
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Mary, once famed for her thick, auburn hair, had gone nearly bald during her years in captivity.
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There is nothing in a man that will not dispute against this captivity of itself: innumerable proud reasonings and imaginations are set up against it; and when the mind and discursive, notional part of the soul is overpowered with the truth, yet the practical principle of the will and the affections will exceedingly tumultuate against it.
The Sermons of John Owen
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In captivity they run into a wall of concrete and steel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually before I split, I wonder if patrick5 might share with me his thoughts on the morality of cetacean captivity ….
Think Progress » American Family Association Pins SeaWorld Death On Lack Of Christianity: ‘Bible Ignored, Trainer Died’
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Millions of the 5 million or so who returned alive from German captivity were sentenced to labour camps.
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No wild deer could act more absurdly than does the axis, the barasingha and fallow, even after generations have been bred in captivity.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
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Mr. Silver is the author of acid-dripping comedies like "Pterodactyls" and "Raised in Captivity" about families that make the term dysfunctional sound positively benign.
NYT > Home Page
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He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own.
Times, Sunday Times
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They managed to draw him out from him a full account of his escape from captivity.
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He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own.
Times, Sunday Times
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Next to it, Jacob in "The Slave", living in captivity as a cowherd.
The Nobel Prize Diplomas
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The major had been in captivity for two months after being captured along with a team of Indian peacekeepers.
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In retrospect, it seemed like the one joyful moment in the long months of captivity.
PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
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Conversely, it is well known that cracids can hybridize very easily in captivity, though natural hybridization has not been reported in the wild.
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It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
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-- The story of Lord Durie's abduction and captivity is differently told by Chambers in his _Domestic Annals of Scotland_, as far, at least, as the instigator of the kidnapping and its accomplisher are concerned.
Stories of the Border Marches
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In captivity, Asian wild asses have lived for 26 years.
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Some species breed readily in captivity, as do rhesus; others, such as talapoins, are more difficult.
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To prevent the extinction of some of these rare mollusks, we have learned how to propagate certain species in captivity, with the goal that their offspring can then be used to repopulate depleted stretches of suitable habitat.
