36 collocations for ransomed

Driven into Baravat by contrary winds, he is moved to ransom a female captive on hearing of her grief at her hard fate, but what is his surprise when the fair slave proves to be Placentia.

SEE Paul, Saint, Apostle. Ransoming the time.

He gave up kingdom, city, wife, and son; he plucked out his eyes and gave them to another; he cut off a piece of his flesh to ransom the life of a dove; he cut off his head and gave it as an alms; he gave his body to feed a starving tigress; he grudged not his marrow and brains.

The first step toward ransoming their friend was followed by others until they finally made great strides through her resolution.

[a], except a reasonable aid to ransom his person if he were taken in war, to make his eldest son a knight, and to marry his eldest daughter.

Go, consuls, ransom the state for arms, which your ancestors ransomed with gold.

Not only did Hotspur refuse to give up Douglas and the others to King Henry, but he wished Henry to ransom his brother-in-law Mortimer.

There is in it the place where Sakra, Ruler of Devas, in a former age, tried the Bodhisattva, by producing a hawk in pursuit of a dove, when the Bodhisattva cut off a piece of his own flesh, and with it ransomed the dove.

Epicydes was particularly anxious to ransom this man above any other; nor was Marcellus disinclined to grant it; the Romans, even at this time, being desirous of gaining the friendship of the Aetolians, with whom the Lacedaemonians were in alliance.

When the proposal to ransom the prisoners was negatived, we were the objects of general commendation, because we reserved ourselves for the service of the state; because we returned to the consul to Venusia, and exhibited an appearance of a regular army.

Blood ransoms the Snake Track Ranch.

" Thus can they cunningly counterfeit, as [6105]Platina describes their customs, "kiss their husbands, whom they had rather see hanging on a gallows, and swear they love him dearer than their own lives, whose soul they would not ransom for their little dog's," "similis si permutatio detur, Morte viri cupiunt aniniani servare catellae.

But Calvary stands to ransom The earth from utter loss, In shade than light more glorious, The shadow of the Cross.

If we find their force too large for us, we may easily ransom the mules and their packs, but we could make no terms for you.

Finding Coronado, he said to him, "I am going down to ransom Pepita.

This is what Moghreb must have looked like to the confused imagination of the Middle Ages, to Norman knights burning to ransom the Holy Places, or Hansa merchants devising, in steep-roofed towns, of Barbary and the long caravans bringing apes and gold-powder from the south.

The attire of the Princesses and ladies of the Court was, however, still more splendid, many of them standing with difficulty under the weight of the closely-jewelled brocade of which their dresses were composed, and wearing upon their heads masses of brilliants which might have ransomed a province.

With what delight, satisfaction, and complacency will the glorified saint, upon this account, sing the redeemed and ransomed their song?

Sailing on from island to island, he arrived at the Island of Candiga, where he ransomed two Spaniards for seventy ducats, who had belonged to the crew of Loaisa, who was shipwrecked in that neighbourhood.

art thou prepared to share their fate, from which nothing can ransom thee?"

O, ransom thou our lives, sweet conqueror!

" "It forbids not thy ransoming thyself.

We will not for the future grant to any one that he may take aid of his own free tenants, unless to ransom his body, and to make his eldest son a knight, and once to marry his eldest daughter; and for this there shall be only paid a reasonable aid.

Let the Cittern's tone salute The Sons of Victory! With the offering of bright blood, They have ransomed earth and tomb, Vineyard, and field, and flood; Lo!

Mr. Willshire ransomed a Spanish boy, and waited several years before he could get this imbecile Government to refund the money.

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