Because it tallies with the statement extorted from Hill by the police under the threat of charging him with the murder.

Moreover, those great popular rights which we now most zealously defend have generally been extorted in the strife of classes and parties, sometimes from kings, and sometimes from princes and nobles.

I need only say that I extorted at last from Eveena a clear statement of the trifle at issue, which flatly contradicted those of the four participants in the squabble.

Apparently nothing but a lease extorted under compulsion from China by Germany.

In 1783 a supplementary commercial treaty extorted for the Ottoman Greeks the right to trade under the Russian flag.

That they should be in their right minds, because testaments extorted through the phrenzy of a disease, or dotage of old age, were not in reality the wills of the persons that made them. 6th.

The tribute extorted after 1802 and the cost of keeping the ships in the Mediterranean amount at the lowest estimate to two millions more.

He chose for his subject the extorting of Magna Charta from King John.

That declaration is purely voluntary, and is not in any way extorted as to the manner in which these Powers propose to act.

I learned that they all lived, in whole or in part, by the sale of their own children, and the labor of the mothers extorted by the lash.

FOOTNOTES: The art of exciting sleep in persons under the influence of animal magnetism, with a view to obtain or rather extort during this artificial sleep, their verbal declarations and directions for curing the diseases of both body and mind.