We have suffered much by extortion, but if gold be your desire, then whatsoever gold doth lie in our treasury, the half of it is freely thine.

His two engrossing objectsif objects, indeed, he may be said to have possessedwere extortion and the uprooting of the last vestiges of civilization and law; his instruments, the dagger and the lash; his amusement, the torture of unwitting offenders; his serious occupation, the shuffling of cards.

Mr. Hoover, whose work as chief of the Belgian Relief Commission had made him world famous, stated the threefold objects of the food administration under the bill as follows: "First, to so guide the trade in the fundamental food commodities as to eliminate vicious speculation, extortion, and wasteful practices, and to stabilize prices in the essential staples.

Oppression and extortion had doubtless been well known before, when the sheriff carried on the administration of the law side by side with the lucrative business of "farming the shires;" but it was at least an irregular and uncertain oppression.

Here, like Roman senators of old, they squandered the money which they had obtained by extortion and corruption of every sort.

" "Why, even that is an extortion.

Start not aside, depart not from your selves, I know your composition is as mine, Of bloud, extortion, falshood, periurie, True-branded with the marke of wickednesse.

The great vassal, or fiscal judge, was no longer allowed to practise extortion on those citizens appointed to defend the State.

This treaty of Troyes became the cause of, and the pretext for, a vast amount of extortion being practised upon the unfortunate inhabitants of the conquered country.

He suppressed the fraud and extortion carried on under the name of justice, put a stop to the sale of offices, abolished a number of rates illegally levied, required that the receivers' accounts should be sent in biennially, and whilst regulating the taxation, he devoted its proceeds entirely to the maintenance and pay of the army.

Talleyrand had been guilty of such extortion in the peace with Austria and with Bavaria that he was complained against by those Powers and therefore removedit was he who advised the war with Spain, and prevented N. from seeing the Duke d'Enghien, whom he thought a "brave jeune homme," and wished to see.

" It is difficult to conceive of a meaner case of extortion than this.

They had a municipality, of course, a syndic, and a secretary, and certain head men, to whose authority they were accustomed to appeal in everythinggenerally against the extortion of the stewards who had obeyed Gregorio Macomer.

That many of the attorneys and managers have refused fair wages and practiced extortion, to depreciate the price of property, that they might profit thereby.

With such laws, and such men to see that they are executed, there wouldn't be any more extortion, any more raising of the rates of transportation on the produce of our ranches and farms merely because the eastern market for that particular product happened to jump a few cents on the dollar.

But on the other hand, an unprincipled executive might easily make the new law an engine of extortion.

Skipping the dry details, the new law, which is equitable enough on its face, can be made an engine of extortion in the hands of those who administer it.

What wonder that when the ashes were raked from the long-smouldering fires of envy, of injustice, of oppression, of extortion, of misrule of every conceivable sort, they sprang into fierce flame?

Sich extortion I ne'er dreamt of.

They had even managed to reduce their robbery and extortion to a kind of system, and to value the human person after a new fashion.

It came from the spontaneous effort of the pastor, the natural and at that time the only protector of the people, trying to save his flock from the extortion and the injustice of their temporal rulers.

Monopoly price is a bad price to the one who pays it, not only because it is a high price but because it bears the character of personal extortion.

The greatest need of criminal legislation is in the writer's opinion in matters of business or corporate fraud, and in revival of our older English law against the extortion or regrating of middlemen, the engrossing of markets, the artificial enhancing of the prices of the necessaries of life, and the withholding, destruction, or improper preservation of food.

Wealthy cities like wealthy individuals and families must pay for their protection against robbery and piracy; against extortion and expropriation.

It was formerly highly beneficial to both nations, but our merchants have been deterred from prosecuting it by the system of outrage and extortion which the Mexican authorities have pursued against them, whilst their appeals through their own Government for indemnity have been made in vain.