And when the old tirades had grown stale, English writers drew copiously from a new sourcefrom La Vérité sur la Russiepleasingly indifferent to the fact that the author's praise in a previous work had notoriously been a thing of bargain and sale, and that there was in full process of development a train of facts which led the Parisian courts to find him guilty of demanding in one case a blackmail of fifty thousand rubles.

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.

At first Beauchene fumed, stormed, denied, equivocated, almost blamed Mathieu for interfering, talked too of blackmail, and put on all sorts of high and mighty airs.

The truth at the back of this conception is the feeling that there is a higher power upon which man is dependent; and the error is in supposing that this power is limited by an individuality which can be enriched by selling its good offices, or which blackmails you by threats.

Be that as it may, he was not prepossessing in his appearance and Mr. Tutt assured Judge Bender that far from being what the district attorney pretended, the man was a well-known gambler, who made his living largely by blackmail.

That was simply blackmail!"

Yet there was, and had been ever since their conversation about the hat, a certain restraint between Miss Wiggin and Mr. Tutt, rising presumably out of her suggestion that his course savored of blackmail, however justified it had afterward turned out to be.

As like as not I'd get two years 'ard for perjurin' and blackmail.

'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.'

But remember that if your demands are too preposterous I will not for a moment listen to them, and that I am the last man in the world to submit to persistent and unwarrantable blackmail. 'I am, sir, 'Yours truly, 'Francis Smethurst.'

He thought so, too, I think, for he said quickly: "'If you don't hold your confounded tongue, I'll give you in charge for blackmail this instant.' "'You wouldn't dare,' says Lavender, and he began to laugh.

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.

789. plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate^, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer^, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger [Slang]; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster. swindle, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece; defraud &c 545; obtain under false pretenses; live by one's wits.

Booty N. booty, spoil, plunder, prize, loot, swag [Slang], pickings; spolia opima [Lat.], prey; blackmail; stolen goods.

[Fr.], bribe; hush money, smart money^; blackmail, extortion; carcelage^; solatium^. allowance, salary, stipend, wages, compensation; pay, payment; emolument; tribute; batta^, shot, scot; bonus, premium, tip; fee, honorarium; hire; dasturi^, dustoori^; mileage.

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!

But there come reports of legislative and administrative corruption, of organised public blackmail, that do seem to carry out my thesis.

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.

It must have been used for grinding the chief's blackmails, which it is known, were all paid to him in kind.

George Douglas Howard Cole & Raymond W. Postgate (A); 16Mar67; R406362. Double blackmail.

Double blackmail.

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.

There had been three of them, besides Banker, who had made it the object of their lives to wait for the opportunity to obtain blackmail from his family, by threatened declarations of his deeds.

Public industry does not have to meet the costs of lobbying and blackmail which are often forced upon private companies.