What is "takes"

Usage examples of "takes".

He throws off his cloak, takes a crucifix with one hand, places the other over the head of his daughter, and addresses the devil in such an amusing way that even his wife, always a stupid, dull, crossgrained old woman, had to laugh till the tears came down her cheeks.

We had not been lying on the straw five minutes, when Stephano called out to me that one of the women had just placed herself near him, and at the same instant the other one takes me in her arms and kisses me.

On the same night I had the honour of offering my arm to Madame F--- during the procession which takes place in commemoration of the death of our Lord and Saviour, which was then attended on foot by all the nobility.

If you had a heart you would not be the victim of either of those two fearful passions, but you have only head, and it must be a very wicked head, judging by the care it takes to heap humiliation upon me.

In Madrid, and possibly all over Spain, a gentleman who takes a lady to a private room in an inn must expect to have a servant in the room the whole of the time, that he may be able to swear that the couple took no indecent liberties with each other.

Now, for instance, I think your niece sweetly pretty, and I should consider myself fortunate if the wife whom God intends for me were like her, but, even if she offered me now a dowry of fifty thousand crowns on condition that our wedding takes place immediately, I would refuse her.

He calls two stout fellows, one takes my bag, the other shoulders my sheep, and forward!

If you are not in a position to have justice done you, Gamier will have to reckon with me before he takes the money I have deposited.

The wonderful old witch, after lavishing caresses upon me, takes off my clothes, lays me on the bed, burns some drugs, gathers the smoke in a sheet which she wraps around me, pronounces incantations, takes the sheet off me, and gives me five sugar-plums of a very agreeable taste.

The time it takes us, a rather conservative estimate, is fifty hours to get any etext selected, entered, proofread, edited, copyright searched and analyzed, the copyright letters written, etc.

Thus does a poor philosopher reason when he takes it into his head to argue at those periods during which a passion raging in his soul makes all its faculties wander.

I Sell all Her Diamonds, One After Another--I Hand Over Tonine to Murray, Who Makes Provision for Her--Her Sister Barberine Takes Her Place.

Then he swears like a trooper, and we all laugh, but he never takes offence.

The good procurator takes me affectionately by the hand, and leads me to the third story, where he leaves me.

Marton told Nanette that I could not possibly be ignorant of what takes place between young girls sleeping together.