Seized in example sentence
Stop thief!' some artists had, it seems, put a trick upon a shopkeeper, and being pursued, some of them fled one way, and some another; and one of them was, they said, dressed up in widow's weeds, upon which the mob gathered about me, and some said I was the person, others said no.Immediately came the mercer's journeyman, and he swore aloud I was the person, and so seized on me.