They would then have considered whether attempts so improbable, and stipulations so absurd and ridiculous, ought to be credited upon the information of an ambassadour's secretary, who, as he proposed to reveal his master's secrets for a bribe, might as probably take another reward for imposing upon those whom he pretended to inform.

Such, my lords, is the principle of this bill, by the confession of its warmest and ablest advocates; it is a bill for summoning a person to a trial, against whom no crime is alleged, and against whom no witness will appear without a bribe.

They were, therefore, equally dangerous to those that obeyed the act, and to those that disregarded it; for they sometimes put their threats in execution, and raised prosecutions against those who had committed no other crime than that of refusing to bribe them to silence.

They had not gone far before they ran upon a watchman, who threatened to run them in; but the police of those days were as susceptible to a bribe as they are to-day, and after donating liberally to the cause of justice and protection, they were taken to their rooms instead of the calaboose.

"You are trying to bribe me!"

"I am weary of Commodusweary of tyrannyweary of lies and hypocrisy weary of wondering what is to happen to Rome that submits to such bestial governmentweary of shame and of the insolence of bribe-fat magistrates" "Weary of your friends?"

They help Marcia protect him because he is the only emperor who never persecuted them, and because Marcia sees to it that they are free to meet together without having even to bribe the police.

But those who have not money to bribe the keepers, are in a woful condition.

Won't you back me up, and at the same time do a kindness to Doctor Berkeley?" "Why, is Doctor Berkeley interested in our decision?" "Certainly he is, as you will appreciate when I tell you that he actually tried to bribe me secretly out of his own pocket.

None could rob a man who had parted with a princely fortune for the sake of Christ; none could bribe a man who had no favors to ask, and who could live on a crust of bread; none could silence a man who felt himself to be the minister of divine Omnipotence, and who scattered before his altar the dust of worldly grandeur.

But Savonarola refused alike the bribe and the invitation.

One could not offer to bribe you.

Littleson could suggest nothing better than a bribe and a common burglary.

In truth, being of a very ambitious temper, she had resolved only to unite, herself to a man of high rank; and although she; was very rich, her fortune was not found a sufficient bribe, even at court, to counterbalance the malignant dispositions of her mind, and the disagreeable qualities of her person.

It was while One Eye was on guard that Barbara Herndon had been able to bribe the Raretongan to throw the strength of his muscles upon our side of the argument.

Maru was confident that Leith was heading for this particular point at the moment that Barbara's bribe caused the Raretongan to desert, and it was reasonable to think that the ruffian had retired to some hiding place to nurse his wound and decide upon the fate of the Professor and his two daughters.

On the morrow the girl pleads with her father to make peace, with humorous naïveté argues with the counsellors of state, tries to bribe the seers, and finally resorts to magic.

In a word, the Khan is the law, and so long as a man can afford to pay or bribe him handsomely, he may commit the most heinous offences with impunity.

It seemed to me at that timeand it seems to me stillone of the most horrible things in modern British life that we bribe the unemployed, that we compel them by fear of starvation, to do our killing and dying for us.

I am considered harsh because I insist that a young man without an income who has just come near to running off with my child on money that was almost a bribe is not a person in whom I have unlimited confidence.

It is worthy of the consideration of my countrymen whether they had not better try and bribe the great Matt.

The burglary of Belgium, the bribe to betray France, these are not excuses; they are facts.

I thought a man would have been ashamed to bribe a new enemy like England to betray an old enemy like France.

If you hear of him, and refuse to meet him, it is only to find that he has married your best friend, whom worlds could not bribe you to give up.

As to a "compromise" with any critic or reviewer whom he cannot bribe, it is enough to say of that, it is morally impossible.