Which preposition to use with ransome
Nor are they all satisfied with the recovery of the costs and damages of the present contest; they are for taking this opportunity of calling in old debts, and reviving our right to the ransome of Manilla.
Our Generall yet shewd himselfe right noble in offering ransome for poore Captive Pike. Sec.
He is like the cabin-boy Ransome in Kidnapped, who, being treated with the grossest brutality by the officers, kept a rope's end of his own to wallop the little ones with.
In mine owne honour, Fredericke, I command Thou set a ransome on Valentia.
Maist thou be happie In thy faire choice; for thou art temperate: You owe no ransome to the state, know that; I have a thousand joyes to tell you of, Which yet I dare not utter, till I pay My thankes to Heaven for um: will you goe With me, and helpe me; pray you doe.
Mar. He has one ransome with him already; me-thinks 'T were good to fight double, or quit.