16 collocations for blackmailing

With these letters in his possession Hill intended to blackmail Sir Horace, or Mrs. Holymead, without disclosing himself in the transaction.

Hill, he said, had conceived the idea of blackmailing her father after he had discovered the existence of some letters in a secret drawer of Sir Horace's desk.

Screech-Owl conceived of a scheme to blackmail the notary Ferrand.

So far away that you won't be able to blackmail Jack Harpe.

His idea was to remove them from the secret drawer after the excitement about the murder died down, and then blackmail Mrs. Holymead, but she acted with a skill and decision that robbed him of his chance to blackmail her.

And it may beit's probably the casethat in some moment of confidence, Michael let out his secret to these two, and that when he was dead they decided to make more inquiries into itpossibly to blackmail the man who had stepped in, and whom they most likely believed to be the genuine Sir Gilbert Carstairs.

It was his barber (if I remember right) who had to be treated on a confidential footing with regard to this peculiarity; and his barber, instead of behaving like a go-ahead person of the Succeed-at-all-costs school and trying to blackmail King Midas, went away and whispered this splendid piece of society scandal to the reeds, who enjoyed it enormously.

For great numbers, not only slaves and freedmen and soldiers and Cæsarians, but likewise knights and senators and numerous very distinguished women, were believed to have given secret hints during his reign and to have blackmailed various persons.

"It can't be that you blackmail the president," said the consul, "because I understand he boasts he has committed all the known crimes.

"Simply this, my dear Jack," explained the General: "Ripaldi must have tried to blackmail Quadling, as he proposed, and Quadling turned the tables on him.

They had already begun to blackmail the squire, and in order to defeat them it was necessary to get Andy out of the country for some time.

In Brazil he had heard a story of Ali Tschorbadschi's jewels from an old criminal from Turkey, and he had returned to blackmail Timar.

That he did not perish on the Argentina, but drifted home, and blackmailed his former wife.

I went to the station to make sure that Mrs. Lawrence got thereknowin' that once she' was there, if young Mr. Gresham busted things up, I'd be able to blackmail Mrs. Lawrenceher bein' a rich woman.

The affair of the brothers Chrimes, who first sold bogus medicines and then proceeded to blackmail the women who had purchased them, was, in Zola's estimation, particularly significant, for here were hundreds and hundreds of Englishwomen applying to those men for the means of accomplishing the greatest crime against Nature there could be.

He would call upon them to arrest a man who was planning to blackmail Mrs. James Blagwin.

16 collocations for  blackmailing