57 Verbs to Use for the Word ransoms

Whilst, however, the dispute was going on, the master of The Revenge opened communication with the Spaniards and concluded an arrangement fully honourable to the British, by which it was agreed that those on board The Revenge should be sent to England in due course; those of the better sort to pay a reasonable ransom, and meantime no one was to be imprisoned.

"Your pluck is worth a king's ransom, John.

They therefore demanded a ransom of five hundred pesos through the medium of a rustic, with the warning that if anything happened to their messenger, the captive would pay for it with his life.

I knew very well that it would not do to exhibit any signs of fear or cowardice; and, having heard much of the cupidity of the Indian character, I offered the savage a large ransom if he would use his influence to procure our release.

ii. 5) "who gave himself a ransom for all men."

" "That is no doubt true, yet he stole the jewelry from the child's person and kept him only for the sake of obtaining ransom.

And like noxious weeds they grew up sturdily, becoming bolder and bolder each day, exacting a bigger and bigger ransom from the fools who toiled and moiled, ever extending their thefts and marching along the road to murder.

You would not send his ransom, gentle John; He's come to fetch it now.

The Prophet therefore received, with Allah's approval, a fifth of the spoil, but the captives he released after receiving ransom.

For, supposing Judith was married happily, she would refuse to leave her husband, and her mother, having lived so long in that country, might not care to leave it now and quit her daughter; so might they refuse their ransom and Moll be sent back to us.

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.

"I advise you not to keep on your present road, because if you fall into our power, not then being my guest, we will require of you a large ransom.

The result was that the king fixed her ransom and that of Mary Ann at £4,000.

Christ laid down his life a ransom for all the sins of the elect; both such as were past before they believed, and such as were to be committed after.

[*] 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.

" This was done, and young Lucius also took a summons from the Bishop to the deacons of the Church in the town, authorising the use of the sacred vessels to raise the ransom, but almost all of these had been already parted with in the time of a terrible famine which had ravaged Arvernia a few years previously, and had denuded all the wealthy and charitable families of their plate and jewels.

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.

and he, who up to that time had not lent an ear to any terms, then at length allowed himself to be treated with respecting the ransom of the free persons.

Had you been an utter ignoramus as I am, I wouldn't have asked the ransom of a penny.

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

He may be months, or even years, before he accumulates enough to purchase his ransom.

The king would not accept the offered ransom, and Chrysês prayed that a plague might fall on the Grecian camp.

Bernardin de St. Pierre, who visited Bourbon nearly fifty years later, repeats a tradition, how La Buze sat at table between the Viceroy and the Governor, and in an access of generosity remitted the Viceroy's ransom.

The total outlay represented a prince's ransom; but, as I pointed out to my aunt, we had a run for our money.

He is so sure armed for taking hurt that he seldom does any; and while he is putting on his arms, he is thinking what sum he can make to satisfy his ransom.

57 Verbs to Use for the Word  ransoms