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.

He did not take Birchill into his confidence with regard to the blackmailing scheme, but in order to induce Sir Horace to believe the burglar had stolen the letters he told Birchill to force open the desk, as he would probably find money or papers of value there.

He is a juggler and imposter and grows rich and strong from the ills of others, blackmailing, dragging, tearing the innocent, as do dogs; but in the midst of public harmony he is embarrassed and withers away.

Not so the German; with him it is an instrument to obtain, or blackmail, further concessions; and as individuals, instead of occupying their thoughts and energies in the faithful fulfilment of its terms, they plot and plan in the pursuit of ulterior advantages.

A hyena had smelt corpses, but the blackmailing Mongol received no reply to his ultimatum.

And then there would be no end to what he called the blackmailing.

Beauchene having drawn large sums from the strong-box of the establishment for expenses which he could not confessa horrible story of blackmailing, so it was rumoredhad been obliged to make a confidant of Blaise, the trusty and active lieutenant who managed the establishment.

It was absolutely a case of blackmailing, and nothing else.

'What isn't either purchase-money or interest, or taxes, or a bribe, or a loan, or a premium, or a present, or blackmail, must be charity, because it must be something, and it isn't anything else you can name.'

There was no doubt that she had felt keenly the tortures which her husband had undergone, and also the humiliation of seeing her name dragged forcibly into this ugly, blackmailing scandal.

"What are you going to get for blackmailing me into selling those shares?"

"Supposing," Rees suggested, "we were induced to knuckle under, to become the victims of your damned blackmailing scheme, surely then one of us would be allowed to go down to the City on parole, eh?" Wingate shook his head.

She would be unable to restrain and to master herself; their son would guess it and take advantage of her, blackmail her; she would be lost.

He has been blackmailing me.

You scared me into handing you over a whole lot of money, you blackmailing rascal, I admit that.

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.

He had the impudence to try to blackmail meme, of all people!

Does it not mean that you are blackmailing me?

Yet he could not help being aware that others less kindly than he would have shrugged sarcastic shoulders and said, "probably another blackmailing errand has detained him."

(This may explain what men and women have told methat there is very little of the brutal domestic terrorism of the Press in Canada, and not much blackmailing.)

Then I thought of blackmail in connection with some disgraceful secret; but though this was a more hopeful suggestion, it was not very probable, considering Jeffrey's age and character.

I had heard of blackmailing, and had a good notion of its wickednessand of its dangerand I was not taking shares with Crone in any venture of that sort.

The contests are inexpensive, and there is very little of the cynical blackmailing of candidates and open subsidising by members which jar so unpleasantly on the observer of English constituencies.

I told of the interviews in my office, my earnest desire to put an end to this abominable blackmailing by informing the police of the whole affair.

He calls these demands blackmailing, and vows that to give them money again is to encourage them in their nefarious practices.