Early on the morning after these events the two men, captor and captive, sat in the tent of the former.
Ere long a dripping figure surrounded by half a dozen captors, was brought upon the wharf.
He had been ten years on the island, during which time he had been well treated by his captors.
In the same way, I recognized the right of our captors or guards to take proper precautions to prevent our escape.
It was plainly our duty to rescue her from the fate of a continued life with her captors.
There is, of course, another important difference between captors and healthcare providers - in addition to the difference in their respective motivations.
With respect to captors we can, at most, hope to affect their behavior through controlling our own responses.
They were subject to their captors but in the end became sacrificial victims.