You are hostages for Vincent, in case he is captured, as long as you are here; I can't let you gounder the laws of warI can not.

We keep to the old faithwe of Lichfield, who have given hostages to the past.

In my next letter I propose to tell the ghastly story of the hostages of Vareddes.

Nor did he regain his liberty without the payment of a heavy ransom, leaving his son Ladislaus as hostage in his stead.

For the fulfilment of these articles four hundred hostages from the principal families were required, previous to the surrender, to be subsequently restored.

The conditions offered by Caesar and accepted by him were that he should send to the Continent double the number of hostages at first demanded and that he should acknowledge subjection to the Romans.

"I'm glad we've got such important hostages as yourself and son," Davis said gallantly to Mrs. Sprague, as the carriage passed out of the clamor of acclamation the crowd set up.

He said he should take Hennery along with him as a mascot, and if the worst came he could trade me to an Indian tribe for ponies, or leave me as a hostage with some tribe until he returned the Indians at the close of next season.

American soldiers in Vera Cruz were killed by franctireurs; but our Government would hang any American officer who permitted the murder of innocent hostages on that account.

But their husbands are gonecarried off as hostages by the Germans.

Moreover he put hostages within Arthur's power, for surety that he would render a yearly tribute to the king.

Now this I keep as a hostage over them.

Scipio, when with a hostile army he had invaded the state of the Ilergetes, forsaken by the author of their revolt, and having driven them all into Athanagia, which was the capital of that nation laid siege to the city; and within a few days, having imposed the delivery of more hostages than before, and also fined the Ilergetes in a sum of money, he received them back into his authority and dominion.

He goeth for a deeper purposelist, BeltaneO listhe goeth to seize upon the noble and saintly Abbess Veronicato bear her captive unto Pentavalon city, there to hold her hostage forfor thee, Beltanefor thee!"

Wau-kaun-kah (the Little Snake) voluntarily gave himself as a hostage until the delivery of the suspected persons.

" CLELIA, a Roman heroine, who swam the Tiber to escape from Porsenna, whose hostage she was; sent back by the Romans, she was set at liberty, and other hostages along with her, out of admiration on Porsenna's part of both her and her people.

In 1162 we find the king of Connacht in a new adventure: "An army was led by Muirceartac Ua Lochlain, accompanied by the people of the north of Ireland, the men of Meath, and a battalion of the Connacht men, to At-Cliat, to lay siege to the Foreigners and the Irish; but Ua Lochlain retired without battle or hostages after having plundered the Fair Strangers.