I found that out myself and I'm the only man that would dare going into the State to get hush-money for it.

"I stayed in Ghorband a month, and gave the Governor there the pick of my baskets for hush-money, and bribed the Colonel of the regiment some more, and, between the two and the tribes-people, we got more than a hundred hand-made Martinis, a hundred good Kohat Jezails that'll throw to six hundred yards, and forty man-loads of very bad ammunition for the rifles.

At one port, indeed, the authorities exacted from the opium traders a sort of hush-money, equivalent to a tax about 6 per cent.

Through hush-money and promises not to whip the women any more, I believe Kyle returned and completed his engagement.

Through hush-money and promises not to whip the women any more, I believe Kyle returned and completed his engagement.

Ferret, the villain of the story, misinterpreted all the kind actions of Frank, attributing his gifts to hush-money; but his character was amply vindicated, and "the soldier's daughter" became his blooming wife.

But he had got up a tale so plausible, and so profitable, that he could afford to bestow hush-money on the companion of his flight, so that the imposition was but little known, and strangers continued to be gulled.

The payment of two oxen was hush-money for the life of a man.

with hush-money?

He consented to reduce the tax to two millions of dollars, if Gotzkowsky would guarantee the punctual payment of the bonds given by the body of merchants, and give two hundred thousand of it in cash down, as hush-money to the Austrians.

While we admire the splendid character which makes a man capable of refusing a salary which means hush-money, we can at the same time understand the difficult position of a clergyman with a hungry brood of children to support, who hesitates at such a move.

I think the giving him this unheard-of chance among us is, in plain words, pretty much like giving him hush-money to keep him quiet.

the petty fraudsthe swindles of agencya term which, to be sure, is derived from the Latin word "agere," to dothe cobweb of petty commissionsthe flat bribesthe smooth hush-money!

He came to Moy afterwards, and has been preying on him for hush-money ever since.