Literary notes about capture (AI summary)
The word "capture" in literature spans a remarkable range of applications. In historical and military narratives, it often denotes the physical seizure or conquest of territories and persons, reflecting the decisive nature of conflict as seen when entire cities or fortifications are taken by force ([1], [2], [3], [4]). At the same time, authors apply "capture" in a more metaphorical sense to evoke the act of seizing an emotion, thought, or fleeting quality—imparting layers of meaning to otherwise ordinary moments ([5], [6], [7]). This dual usage underscores both tangible victories and the more abstract, sometimes introspective, moments of human experience, as when the act of capturing something becomes as significant as the loss experienced thereafter ([8], [9]).
- My first problem was to capture Grand Gulf to use as a base.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - On the 21st General Pope arrived with an army 30,000 strong, fresh from the capture of Island Number Ten in the Mississippi River.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - The capture of Grenada may change our plans in regard to Vicksburg.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman - GENERAL HALLECK IN COMMAND—COMMANDING THE DISTRICT OF CAIRO—MOVEMENT ON FORT HENRY—CAPTURE OF FORT HENRY.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - A bridge a very small bridge in a location and thunder, any thunder, this is the capture of reversible sizing and more indeed more can be cautious.
— from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein - It other words, it was perfectly situated to capture all the keystrokes I made while I typed on my machine.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - But never, he had really found this self, because he had wanted to capture it in the net of thought.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse - Beware lest in the end a narrow faith capture thee, a hard, rigorous delusion!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The intelligence of his capture, coming in the train of many sorrows and disasters, proved fatal to his unhappy father.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
