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What ensues is a dialogue wherein the djinn explains his various loves and captivities to Alithea, who listens enraptured with her wet hair wrapped in a towel.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022

The tale of his wanderings, his captivities, his hairbreadth escapes, and deeds of individual prowess would fill a book.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Roosevelt, Theodore

Organisation and government protection saved the Ohio Associators from such experiments of colonisation as had frequently led to Indian captivities and abandoned settlements in Tennessee and Kentucky.

From The United States of America, Part 1 by Sparks, Edwin Erle

Such illegal captivities were not practicable for long in London.

From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Bennett, Arnold

Zere are business for Schlagintwert: I do not mind ze captivities now: business are business.”

From King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane by Strang, Herbert