1137 examples of ransoms in sentences

Friend, you'll know your Destiny presently; for 'tis the custom of the Great Turk to view the Captives, and consider of their Ransoms and Liberties, according to his pleasure.

Take her, young Man, and with it both your Ransoms.

If this suffice not,propose your Ransoms, and they shall be paid by Don Carlos, Governor of Cadiz.

The Americans refused to go, as the King of the Mountains had an unkindly way of holding his visitors to large ransoms, and killing them if the money were not quickly paid.

But this Bare, though he would be very well content, being also an old man, to have his household managed by Mrs. Godwin and to adopt Judith as his child, being of a more avaricious turn than his brother, at length consents to it, on condition that her ransoms be paid before she quits Barbary.

Three of the prisoners carried to Portugal by Gonzales were Moors of some rank and considerable opulence; who each promised to pay ransoms for their safe return to their native country, and to give, besides, six or seven slaves each to the captors.

It may as well be said here that the band received heavy sentences, it being proved at their trial that they had made a practice of kidnapping children and then trying to collect ransoms for them.

Midshipmen are not in the habit of carrying much money about with them, but I have heard of Guerillas carrying people off to the mountains and getting ransoms.

Morgan sent him two messengers bearing the following propositions: First, that he would quit Maracaibo without doing any damage to the town, or taking any ransoms.

Third, that he would send home freely those four chief inhabitants of Gibraltar whom he held as hostages for the ransoms which had been promised.

John had again raised the rate of scutage, and imposed aids, fines, and ransoms at his pleasure without counsel of the baronage.

[*] They robbed travellers, made citizens prisonersespecially ecclesiasticsin order to extort exorbitant ransoms, they took from the peasants their beasts and their crops, and forced them to work in strengthening the dens of their spoliators with new fortifications.

Have you paid your ransoms' I was on the point of sending one of my trumpeters to pay it and fetch you back.

"The quantity of spoil gained by the victors at the battle of Bannockburn was inestimable, and the ransoms paid by the prisoners largely added to the mass of treasure.

Blood ransoms the Snake Track Ranch.

STAUFFER, DONALD R. The intent of the critic, by Edmund Wilson, Norman Foerster, John Crowe Ransom & W. H. Auden.

Blood ransoms the Snake Track Ranch.

Girty, Simon, British partisan; ransoms captive.

Stealthily and unheard, they slipped into houses, fell upon the unsuspecting women and children, and dragged them out, not to capture them as the Romans did the Sabine women, but to hold them as so much merchandise, to be redeemed by their friends and relatives at high and often enormous ransoms.

We hoped that Max would be successful in filling our purses with prize money and ransoms, should we fall in with a tournament now and then; but, lacking that good fortune, we expected to engage ourselves as escorts to merchant caravans.

The Swiss sent ambassadors under a flag of truce, begging Charles to spare them, and saying, according to my friend Comines, that "there were among them no good prisoners to make, and that the spurs and horses' bits of the duke's army were worth more money than all the people of Switzerland could pay in ransoms, even if they were taken."

The Carthaginians who sent commissioners to Rome were allowed by the Romans to contribute for the benefit of the captives severally related to them; and about two hundred of them were sent back without ransoms to Scipio [lacuna] after the treaty [lacuna] and friendship [lacuna] confirmed; and they granted peace

When the chief came on board, he questioned them respecting the circumstances of their friends, and demanded ransoms accordingly, from six thousand to six hundred dollars each.

I would give worlds for ransoms were they mine, Rather than have her.

The huge sums of money mentioned in the Reichstag as having been expended on secret service have, so far as England is concerned, proved of no political value, and the topographical and personal knowledge gained would only be of service in case of actual invasion and the consequent exactions of ransoms from individuals, cities, and districts.

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