Who was it bribed the jury that tried you for the shooting up of Derbyville, Pedlar?

Then she asked me if the conductor could be bribed to stop.

You bribed them, I suppose.

I told him Such tales of your dead Father!God is my judge, I thought there was no harm: but that bad Man, He bribed me with his gold, and looked so fierce.

Would not every man immediately discover, that the witnesses were bribed, and therefore they would deserve no credit?

Bands of bill-stickers, bribed for the occasion, started in every direction, carrying with them the decrees and proclamations.

Le Drieux has already been bribed, by a liberal reward, to run down a supposed criminal.

You can just flounce into your nest any old time and know that everything is right there, unless one crafty girl has bribed the chambermaid for the key.

The back appears unto the partial eyne, The plaintive belly pleads they bribed been; And he, for want of better advocate, Doth to the ear his injury relate.

Phrygia was the share assigned to him; but the Senate took it back from his successor, saying that the consul Aquillius had been bribed to give it.

[Sidenote: A second commission, hoaxed or bribed by Jugurtha.]

"A railroad can be cut, and locomotives break down at awkward times when their drivers are bribed.

Galdar's friends knew he could not be bribed and that Adam was ill, although it was hardly possible they knew he was dead.

Quack doctors were secretly consulted, instead of the regular practitioners; the searchers were bribed to silence; and large fees were given to the undertakers and buriers to lay the deaths to the account of some other disorder.

At noon when the Maguire youngsters came home from school, I bribed Tommy, the youngest, into the kitchen, with the promise of a doughnut.

What if he knew the reputation of Alcatraz and to secure his bets on Lady Mary, had bribed Cordova at the last moment to pull his horse.

Thus it was that I bribed my imagination, and endeavoured to persuade myself that my present unhappiness originated in a different source from my former.

It is, therefore, only with the secret ballot we have to deal at present; for although the power to vote secretly exists, it is obvious, that unless secret voting is made compulsory, it affords no protection to those who are in a position to be bribed or coerced, inasmuch as those who did bribe or coerce would insist upon the vote so obtained being given openly.

We have heard of a case in one of the Lower Wards of the city, in which one man got, at the time of the late democratic conventions, the enormous sum of two thousand dollars, out of which it is said he bribed the majority of the electors and kept the balance for himself.

[-37-] The consuls had this enactment passed, and next they laid heavier penalties upon such as bribed any persons, as if they themselves were any the less guilty because they had secured their office not by money but by force.

With such faint hope, and such belief, I must have bribed myself to silence, for I left my couch resolved to keep my secret close.

"The burghers of the towns of Flanders," says a chronicler of the age, "were all bribed by gifts or promises from the King of France, who would never have dared to invade their frontiers, had they been faithful to their count."

It appears, that the said Chabot, and four or five of his colleagues in the Convention, had been bribed to serve a stock-jobbing business at a stipulated sum,* and that the money was to be divided amongst them.

It was said that I bribed too; but to discuss that now would be out of place.

More than ever before he now longed to secure the sons of Aymon; so he bribed Iwo, with whom the brothers had taken refuge, to send them to him.