Theytook Charlton's gun from his cold, dead hands.
I'lltake that plate off the table.
1627,G[eorge] H[akewill],An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World.[…], Oxford, Oxfordshire:[…] Iohn Lichfield and William Turner,[…],→OCLC, book IV,pages402–403:
All theſe Ceremonies thus being performed; the Prince which ſucceededtaketh a torch, and firſt putteth to the fire himſelfe, and after him all the reſt of the company, and by and by as the fire was kindled out of the toppe of the higheſt turret, an Eagle was let fly to carry vp his ſoule into heaven, and ſo he was afterward reputed, and by theRomanes adored among the reſt of theGods:[…]
Wetake,take,take until we can't take anymore. Maybe it's because our inner nature is not primarily one of giving, but of taking. Even these things wetake that should balance our lives and give us rest do not. We make work out of them. We do them aggressively; always in control.Take.
The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not betaken and I was very glad the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way.
The front line, ours and the Fascists', lay in positions of immense natural strength, which as a rule could only be approached from one side. Provided a few trenches have been dug, such places cannot betaken by infantry, except in overwhelming numbers.
The horses appear to thrive well, yet they are small sized, and have lost so much strength, that they are unfit to be used intaking wild cattle with the lazo.
"Load away now, andtake thy revenge, my fine fellow," said Samoa to himself. But not yet.
1913 November, Rabindranath Tagore, “The Problem of Evil”, inSādhanā: The Realisation of Life, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company,→OCLC,page65:
It is only when we invoke the aid of pain for our self-gratification that she becomes evil andtakes her vengeance for the insult done to her by hurling us into misery.
But I said that, so far as you employ it at all, bad work should be paid no less than good work; as a bad clergyman yettakes his tithes, a bad physiciantakes his fee, and a bad lawyer his costs.
Between theſe, thoſe ſeem to do beſt whotaking material and uſeful hints, ſometimes from ſingle matters of Fact, carry them in their Minds to be judg'd of, by what they ſhall find in Hiſtory to confirm or reverſe theſe imperfect Obſervations; which may be eſtabliſh'd into Rules fit to be rely'd on, when they are juſtify'd by a ſufficient and wary Induction of Particulars.
1831 June, J. Duncan, “Lodgeagainst Simonton”, inReports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, third edition, volume II, Philadelphia, P.A.: Kay & Brother, published1880,page442:
There was nointestacy, and they did nottake under the will as heirs, but the widow and the children, under the residuary devise, take as tenants in common.
a.1717 (date written),Robert South, “Sermon VI”, inFive Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions.[…], volume X, London:[…] Charles Bathurst,[…], published1744,→OCLC,page187:
And therefore, according to the tenor of ſuch a covenant, he has made no proviſion to ſecure his people in any ſuch temporalties, buttook from them all right of war and reſiſtance.
1729,J[ohn] Woodward,An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England;[…], tome I, London:[…] F[rancis] Fayram,[…];J[ohn] Senex,[…]; and J. Osborn andT[homas] Longman,[…],→OCLC, part I (Of the Fossils that are Real and Natural:[…]),page 5:
Nor can the Wooll be work'd, or made up, without being firſt greaſed or oiled: All which unctuous Matter muſt betaken forth again out of the Cloth before it can be worn.
Sometimes he would have her standing up by the side of the bed, not bothering to undress, merely undoing his fly and using her like a cheap envelope to receive his lust. At others he wouldtake her on the floor of her clothes closet and then leave her, locked in for the rest of the night, awash with his sex, until her embarrassed maid freed her the next morning.
He remembered her look of distress, her childish "Oh!" when hetook her for the first time, clumsily, because he felt ashamed. And each time after that, each time they had sex together, though he tried to be as gentle as possible, he knew she was wearing the same expression, he avoided seeing her face, and thus it happened that instead of being a pleasure the sexual act became an ordeal.
2012,The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: A Definitive Encyclopaedia of Existing Information: In 27 Excruciating Volumes, New York, N.Y.:Little, Brown and Company,→ISBN,page 8:
Modern Amsterdam is among Europe's most progressive cities, leading in such fields as design, fisting, felching, civil engineering, fashion, five-ways, pony play, computer science, and transportation. Its stock exchange is the oldest in Europe, and lovely Anastasiatakes six men at once while shitting into a crystal goblet during her live show on the Bloedstraat at 11:30 p.m. every Tuesday.
"I'll stop 'em'" cried Quilp, diving into the little counting-house and returning with a thick stick, "I'll stop 'em. Now my boys fight away. I'll fight you both, I'lltake both of you, both together, both together!"
"What is cruel now was not cruel then," he said; "it was a way of fighting; it was what is called an ambush now—enticing your enemy, and thentaking him at a disadvantage. And if you did not do that to him he would do it to you. And when a man is mad with anger or revenge, what does he care for anything?"
The young females ſeeing him approach in ſuch haste; and according to cuſtom, expecting a dance; inſtantly aſſembled in a circle, andtook each other by the hand: but Gulchenrouz, coming up out of breath, fell down, at once, on the graſs.
Salv. We can think no other, if we do but conſider the way hetaketh to confute their aſſertion; the confutation of which confiſts in the demolition of buildings, and the toſſing of ſtones, living creatures and men themſelves up into the Air.
Heeding the wise caution of his com rades, hetook the habit of wearing the ring only at night. Wrapped in his blanket, he stealthily slipped the golden circlet over his little finger, and, as he averred, "slept all the better for it."
Perſonal offence I have given them none. The part theytake againſt me is from zeal to the cauſe. It is well! It is perfectly well! I have to do homage to their juſtice.
1925, Aldous Huxley,Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC, part I (Travel in General),page16:
All I claim for the ten-horse-power Citroën is this: that it works. In a modest and unassuming way, not very rapidly, indeed, but steadily and reliably, ittakes one about.
(transitive, of a path, road, etc.) Tolead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
And fain wouldtake thee with me, in the Dell / Of Peace and mild Equality to dwell, / WhereToil ſhall call the charmerHealth his Bride, / AndLaughter ticklePlenty's ribleſs ſide!
'You had better wait here,' said the wizard to the dwarves; 'and when I call or whistle begin to come after me — you will see the way I go — but only in pairs, mind, about five minutes between each pair of you. Bombur is fattest and will do for two, he had better come alone and last. Come on Mr. Baggins! There is a gate somewhere round this way.' And with that he went off along the hedgetaking the frightened hobbit with him.
2007, Edwin B. Mullins,The Popes of Avignon, New York, N.Y.: BlueBridge, published2008,→ISBN,page59:
In a rare example of clemency Pope John assured him of a pardon, perhaps on the grounds that the innocent monk had merely been the victim of Louis's overbearing ambitions. Nicholas thentook himself to Avignon where in August 1330 he formally renounced his claim to the papacy.
We understand that His Royal Highness Prince Florestan, who has been for some little time in this country, hastaken the mansion in Carlton Gardens, recently occupied by the Marquis of Katterfelto. The mansion is undergoing very considerable repairs, but it is calculated that it will be completed in time for the reception of His Royal Highness by the end of the autumn; His Royal Highness hastaken the extensive moors of Dinniewhiskie for the coming season.
To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every nighttake much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric. He was a year ago just fifty-nine. Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric. Already he is gone. He was cut off by pneumonia, or apoplexy, last Christmas.
He was conscious that other officers tried to avoid eating at the same time, and everyone was gready relieved when he stopped coming there altogether and begantaking his meals in his trailer.
1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar),Thomas Tusser, “The Authors life.”, inA Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London:[…]Richard Tottel,→OCLC; republished London:[…] Robert Triphook,[…], and William Sancho,[…],1810,→OCLC, stanza 37,page214:
Mantaketh paine, God giueth gaine, / Man doth his best, God doth the rest, / Man well intendes, God foizon sendes, / else want he shall.
Thinks I to myself, "Sol, you're run off your course again. This is some rich city man's summer 'cottage' and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dogtaking an interest in your underpinning." So I started to back away again into the bushes. But I hadn't backed more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
If you're in an abusive relationship, don't just sit andtake it; you can get help.
The hulltook a lot of punishment before it broke.
I cantake the noise, but I can'ttake the smell.
That truck bed will onlytake two tons.
2022 September 11, Drachinifel, 56:34 from the start, inThe Drydock - Episode 213 (Part 1)[4],YouTube, archived fromthe original on12 September 2022:
[…] and, kind of the ultimate example of the plans for the R-class was to refit them with huge bulges, almost monitor-style bulges, to be able totake multiple air-dropped torpedo attacks, but also to just, literally, slap on four inches of deck armor.
This gap had been caused by the sweep of tempest that went up the valley at the climax of the storm. The wall, being low, hadtaken little harm; but the great west gable of the Abbey had been smitten, and swung on its back, as a trap-door swings upon its hinges.
In 1961, they lined up a lawyer and an underwriter totake the company public. And they retained an accounting firm to produce audited financial statements.
The author explained the theory of Dove, which, if wetook him correctly, was, that the lustre of bodies and particularly the metallic lustre arose from the light coming from the one stratum of the superficial particles of bodies interfering on the eye with the light coming from other and deeper strata,—the regular symmetrical arrangement of the particles in these bodies producing effects somewhat analogous to that of mother-of-pearl
More than a third of the new flats will be a mix of council rent and "affordable" rent – definitions vary but often this is taken to mean that their cost won't exceed 80% of the normal market rate.
Ax. Oh! name the mighty Ranſom, task my Power, / Let there be Danger, Difficulty, Death, / T' enhance the Price. /Baj. Itake thee at thy word, / Bring me theTartar’s Head.
For (as I heare ſay) ſuche your conditions are, / To ye be worthie fauour of no liuing man, / To be abhorred of euery honeſt man. / To betaken for a woman enclined to vice.
When we were ashore we had to walk a couple of miles through the forest in search of the village in which we were to sleep, a place called Tiaro, and when we found it, about two in the morning, the first innkeeper whom we knocked up, a German,took us for bushrangers and would not let us in.
1950, E[wdin] Basil Redlich,The Early Traditions of Genesis, London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.,page108:
The dimensions of the ark, if wetake a cubit to be equal to 1½ feet, are 450 × 75 × 45 feet. It is to be built in three stories and to contain rooms or nests for Noah's family and the animals.
And the firm belief of a future Judgment, which ſhallrender to every man according to his deeds, if it be well conſider'd, is to a reaſonable nature the moſt forcible motive of all other to a good life; becauſe it istaken from the conſideration of the greateſt and moſt laſting happineſs and miſery that Humane nature is capable of.
"As I Lay Dying"takes its title from Book XI of Homer's "Odyssey"
1676,Richard Wiseman, “The First Book. A Treatise of Tumours.”, inSeverall Chirurgicall Treatises, London:[…] E. Flesher and J. Macock, forR[ichard] Royston[…], and B[enjamin] Took,[…],→OCLC,page55:
The benign or milder Speciestakes its Originall from a bilious hotſerum: the other is commonly ſaid to proceed fromAduſtion in the Bloud, with a mixture of Choler or ſalt Phlegm.
I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features,—a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty,—whichtook my fancy more than all the out-shining loveliness of her companions.
(transitive, of a material) Toabsorb or beimpregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
The British brought the ship into Haifa harbor. The ship was taking seawater in 4 places, and the passengers had been without fresh water for the last few days of their voyage, with several ill from drinking seawater.
(transitive) Torequire(a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome).
Looks like it's gonnatake a taller person to get that down.
Finishing this on schedule willtake a lot of overtime.
1921 January 15,Millard's Review of the Far East, volume XV, number 7,→OCLC,page357:
If the summary of the Tientsin society as accurate, a famine population of.more than 14,000,000 is already bad enough. If ittakes five dollars to keep one of them alive, the task of relieving the whole population affected will require nearly $80,000,000.
Ittook an effort to restrain himself, and in a level voice to reassure earnest young Mark in his David Ogilvy-clone outfit that even the most red-faced colonels in England were unlikely to be upset by his banal formulation.
TIME was ittook a war to close a financial exchange. Now all it needs is a glitch in technology. On August 26th trading on Eurex, the main German derivatives exchange, opened as usual; 20 minutes later it shut down for about an hour.
Unloading the moving trucktook us half a day, but this mess of a house willtake us all weekend to tidy up. Ittakes ages to finish house moving!
Hunting that whaletakes most of his free time.
The trip willtake about ten minutes.
Ittakes a while to get used to the smell.
1940, Zane Grey, chapter 12, in30,000 on the Hoof, Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black,→OCLC,page193:
"Barbara, what I have to confess will amaze and grieve you," began Lucinda, with grave tenderness. "But it is best for your happiness, for the future that I see can be yours. And surely best for all of us Huetts. It hastaken me years—years to come to this decision—to break one aspect of our happy home life here for a possible fuller and better one."
When that happened, he almost gave up the idea of asking what he had come to ask. But then the opportunity arose, and hetook it, then waited breathlessly for her answer.
We had ſome very agreeable Converſations upon this Subject; and once he told me, with a kind of more than ordinary Concern upon his Thoughts, that he was greatly beholden to me fortaking this hazardous and diffiult[sic] Journey; for that I had kept him Honeſt;[…]
Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants totake jobs in the private sector.
On this, they withdrew to a tenisground in the neighbourhood of Berſailles, as the moſt convenient place they could find, and, after renewing their ſeſſion,took an oath never to ſeparate from each other, under any circumſtance whatever, death excepted, until they had eſtabliſhed a conſtitution.
After getting out of Beloved Ali's cab he'd picked up a copy of theNews and thePost, then hadtaken an erratic route home, walking fast, as if trying to escape something....Ellen DeGeneres, posters proclaimed, was coming soon to the Beacon Theatre.
1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Humours and Dispositions of theLaputians Described.[…]”, inTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World.[…][Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London:[…]Benj[amin] Motte,[…],→OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan),pages23–24:
He firſttook my Altitude by a Quadrant, and then with Rule and Compaſſes, deſcribed the Dimenſions and Out-lines of my whole Body, all which he enter'd upon Paper, and in ſix days brought my Clothes very ill made, and quite out of ſhape, by happening to miſtake a Figure in the Calculation.
(transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
The days when he was plain George Pyke, humble clerk in a solicitor’s office, and used to thrill at the soft voice of Lucy Maynard as shetook the order for his frugal lunch at the Holborn Viaduct Cabin, had long since faded from his memory.
My husband and I have a dysfunctional marriage. He justtakes andtakes; he never gives.
(intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
1631,Francis [Bacon], “II. Century. [Experiments in Consort, Touching Sounds; and First Touching the Nullity and Entity of Sounds.]”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], 3rd edition, London:[…]William Rawley[…];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…],→OCLC, paragraph 119,page40:
And ſo likewiſeFlame percuſſing the Aire ſtrongly, (as when Flame ſuddenlytaketh, and openeth,) giuetha Noiſe; So, GreatFlames, whiles the one implelleth the other, giue a bellowingSound.
(of ink, dye, etc.) Toadhere or be absorbed properly.
the dye didn'ttake
Boiling pasta with a bit of the sauce in the water will help the sauce "take."
The cradles are supported under their centres by shores, on which the keeltakes. The ends of the cradles are hinged, and can drop down clear when the boat is being hoisted or lowered.
At the depot, Hook climbed out, slamming the door twice before the latchtook. A train idled on the main track, the engine hissing as it waited for the crew change. From the windows, passengers watched on at the world outside.
(possibly dated) To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people.
Here was only cruelty and pain; where was the loving side of Christianity? "When I was young," I said, "I was vaccinated with religion, but the vaccination didn'ttake."
(intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
1881,Jessie Fothergill, chapter IX, inKith and Kin: A Novel, volume II, London: Robert Bentley and Son,page259:
'Photographs never do give anything but a pale imitation, you know, but the likenesses, as likenesses, are good. She "takes well" as they say, and those were done lately.'
I don't know but she would, but just then poor Sukey came in, and looked so frightened and scarey—Sukey is a pretty gal, and looks so trembling and delicate, that it's kinder a shame to plague her, and so Itook and come away for that time.
Speed-the-Plough lurched round on his elbow and regarded him indifferently. "Moighty foin, that be! D'ye call that Doctrin'? He bean't al'ays, or I shoon't be scrapin' my heels wi' nothin' to do, and what's warse, nothin' to eat. Why, look heer. Luck 's luck, and bad luck's the con-trary. Varmer Bollop, t'other day, has's rick burnt down. Next night his gran'ry's burnt. What do hetak' and go and do? Hetakes, and goes, and hangs unsel', and turns us out o' 'ploy. God warn't above the Devil then, I thinks, or I can't make out the reckonin'."
As made Queen 'Lizzybeth swear like blazes, and ketched poor old Dizzy sich a smack o' the face, as sent 'im up in a corner a-wimperin' with 'is 'ankercher to 'is nose, as made Gladstin give a grin, tho' he took good care to keep out of old Betsey's way, as glared at 'im; and thentook and turned on me and says, "Let me give you a turn, for you're a-layin' on your back too much."
I took and beat the devil out of him. I got him against the wall, and the back of his head bumped the wall just when my fist hit his chin, and he went out like a light, and that's how he come to have that big cut on his chin, like you was talking about.
[…] I went and kicked the door in and took care of some other people. Then Itook and went back to the hotel—" ¶ "The hotel where you live, right? The Gilbert Hotel?" ¶ "Right. Itook and went back to the hotel, took a shower, went out and talked to a police officer—" ¶ "A police officer. Sheriff's deputy? LAPD? What's his name?" ¶ "Can't recall. Jim. Charlie, could be."
(archaic) Tovisit; to include in a course of travel.
1677,William Penn,A Collection of the Works of William Penn:[…], volume I, London:[…] J. Sowle,[…], published1726,page60:
Now about a Year ſince,R. B. andB. F.took that City in the Way fromFrederickſtadt toAmſterdam, and gave them a Viſit: In which they informed them ſomewhat ofFriend's Principles, and recommended the Teſtimony of TRUTH to them, as both a nearer and more certain Thing than the utmoſt ofDe Labadie's Doctrine. They left them tender and loving.
1793,John Whitehead,The Life of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A.[…], Dublin:[…] John Jones,[…], published1805,page441:
But it seems that he did not attend to this circumstance at present; for in May, he set out again forEpworth, andtookManchester in his way, to see his friend Mr.Clayton, who had now leftOxford.
a.1701 (date written), John Dryden, “To The Pious Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs.Anne Killigrew,[…]”, inThe Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden,[…], volume II, London:[…]J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson,[…], published1760,→OCLC,page216:
Beauty alone could beautytake ſo right: / Her dreſs, her ſhape, her matchleſs grace, / Were all obferv'd, as well as heavenly face.
Similarly, the participletaken is sometimes replaced by the equallyproscribedtooken.
In older forms of English, when the pronounthou was in active use, and verbs used-est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verbtake had the formtakest, and hadtookest for its past tense.
Similarly, when the ending-eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the formtaketh was used.
1999,Report to Congress: Impacts of California Sea Lions and Pacific Harbor Seals on Salmonids and West Coast Ecosystems, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service,page32:
The 1994 Amendments address the incidentaltake of marine mammals in the course of commercial fishing, not the direct lethaltake of pinnipeds for management purposes.
Should you crave a fix of mytake on tech culture, get the urge to build a 3-D home cinema or want the skivvy on the latest internet memes or robo-romances, you can keep a close eye on me via Twitter or drop me a line at my new digs.
2018 May 10,Ben Mathis-Lilley, “Fox News Military Analyst Says John McCain Broke Under Torture and Gave Secrets to North Vietnamese”, inSlate[10], archived fromthe original on28 November 2022:
I wrote Thursday morning that the Washington Post had printed a column that qualified as the worsttake on the debate over whether Gina Haspel, who supported the torture of "War on Terror" detainees, should become CIA director. I was very wrong.This is the worsttake:
Another of the victims, Michael Brown, was an aspiring rapper himself and a Lamar fan. Though Kendrick's controversialtake on Brown's death is somewhat glossed over, the book is constantly putting into context how the rapper's art is a product of the same trauma and working in service to the Black communities that experienced that trauma.
We turned to the experts to get theirtakes on whether you truly need a dining table in a small home. For some designers, having one is nonnegotiable; others have found ways around it. Read on to see what works best for you.
The League of Gentlemen was all set in one town;The Fast Show did what it said on the tin, the sketches came thick and fast;Goodness Gracious Me was a brillianttake on British Asian culture.
As part of her acceptance speech for the Billboard Icon Award during the show, Dion showed off her well-honed Las Vegas showmanship during hertake on the Queen classic and statement of endurance.
He's a stone-cold snake, Nick, but he's our stone—cold snake. Keep tugging on hanging threads and one day your pants will fall off." ¶ Nick did atake, grinning in spite of his miserable mood. "How, exactly, would that work?" ¶ Mavis shrugged, grinned right back at him.
1884,John Southward, chapter XXI, inPractical Printing: A Handbook of the Art of Typography, second edition, London: J. M. Powell & Son,page197:
When the copy arrives, it is taken in hand by the printer, who first of all divides it into "takes" or short portions, distributing these among the various compositors. Atake usually consists of a little more than a stickful of matter, but it varies sometimes, for if a new paragraph occurs it is not overlooked. Thesetakes are carefully numbered, and a list is kept of the compositors who take the several pieces.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
^Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*teh₂⁽g̑⁾-”, inLexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag,→ISBN,pages616–617: “Mit erneuertem Ablaut *tetōk-/tetk- für *tetk- < *dedg-, assimiliert aus *te-dg- < *te-tg- < *te-th₂⁽g̑⁾- ―With renewed ablaut *tetōk-/tetk- for *tetk- < *dedg-, assimilated from *te-dg- < *te-tg- < *te-th₂⁽g̑⁾-”
^1970, Harry Shaw,Errors in English and ways to correct them, page 93: In the sentence, "He took and beat the horse unmercifully," took and should be omitted entirely.
take (third-person singular simple presenttaketh,present participletakende,takynge,first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participletaked)
