Mr. Dale was abducted from his study-there was really no other word to describe the way in which he was carried off bodily-and requested to light the candles.
"Girls of the Forest"
L. T. Meade
How familiar his voice sounded and how cool and pleasant his hands were to her heated brow; and she lay back there wondering why Grey Stuart did not come; why it was so long before a letter came from her father in the Malay peninsula; and then her head began to throb, for she had had, she felt, a terrible dream about having joined him there and been seized and carried off, as she had read in books of hapless maidens being abducted from their homes.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
"Because I"-Granger drew in a whiff of smoke-"because I know the Duke's crowd wanted her abducted.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon