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- noun Plural form of
captivator .
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Examples
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For arms and ammunition, thee has thee choice among the spoils of these dead villains, thee captivators.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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The great captivators -- the Cleopatras of the vocabulary -- one easily recognizes; but besides these there is a host of small flirts and every-day coquettes, whom one hardly suspects till they have a little carried him away.
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"Thee speaks the truth a second time," said Nathan Slaughter, snuffling and hesitating in his speech: "thee wicked enemies and captivators will never trouble thee more."
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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Love, too, sheer uncalculating love, impelled not a few Whites to enter the hymeneal state with the dusky captivators of their affections.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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Accordingly after breakfast he started off with his supposed friend -- they had not proceeded far before he was delivered into the hands of his captivators, who were concealed in the woods some three hundred yards from the house.
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The captivators were all drinking, carousing and sporting over their victim, when the colored people without were armed with guns, pistols, and missiles of various kinds, let go a volley of stone shots,
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"Not more felicitous than appropriate; but whither away, my fair captivators?"
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(a thing I could not be so certain of on my part, seeing that I had never tracked thee, save by thee horse-prints only), and that if we followed thee, we might in some way aid thee to escape, thee captivators being so few in number.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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Well, friend, this was a thing that perplexed me; until, by and by, having brought little Peter to reason in the matter of the horse, and washed his nose in a brook which it was my fortune to discover, he did bethink him what he was after, and so straightway hunt for the track, which being recovered we went on our way until we lighted right on thee captivators 'camp-fire, and truly we lighted upon it much sooner than we expected.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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a weapon in thee hand, for just as long a time; and, besides, I feared, in case thee should discover there was help nigh at hand, thee might cry out in thee surprise, and so alarm these sleeping captivators.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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