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Sentences ending with ransom

Hereupon the Sultan, who at all times lacked moneys, notwithstanding the heavy tribute he levied on all merchandise, commanded that Herdegen and the Bohemian should be led away again and then he asked this overweening ransom. [10]
Hive them in the cave till they raise a ransom. [5]
By the laws of war she could not be denied the privilege of ransom. [5]
Hereupon, in fulfilment of my purpose yestereve, I made it my hard duty to carry the evil tidings to the old baron, and humbly to remind him of his promise to take care for Herdegen's ransom. [10]
Some English people of consequence (the German of whom I have spoken was with them) had been captured, and it had cost them a heavy ransom. [4]
I wouldn't turn my back to ye for a ransom. [11]
And was his mind now clear enough to enable him to remember how great a sum was demanded for ransom? [10]
You forego your mad purpose, and I--I will pay the ransom. [10]
Lieutenant Commanding George M. Ransom. [7]
You and Monsieur Iberville saved the maid I meant no harm to her; 'twas but for ransom. [11]

More example sentences with the word ransom in them

Three thousand gulden, which he had lent to the Convent of Vierzehnheiligen, and of which he might at any time require the repayment, he had set apart to ransom Herdegen and pay for his home-coming. [10]
After that, for weeks, he spent all his midnights in his magnificent mine, inspecting it in security, gloating over its marvels at his leisure, and always slipping back to his obscure lodgings before dawn, with a duke's ransom under his cloak. [5]
By the military usage of the time the ransom of a royal prince was 10,000 livres of gold, which is 61,125 francs--a fixed sum, you see. [5]
Judge Ransom seems to have all the virtues that he ascribes to me. [5]
All this time there were reports drifting about that the King was going to ransom Joan. [5]
Great will be the ransom, my Frenchman! [11]
He looked at the matter somewhat otherwise in 1863, when the settlement was taking place in a different currency,--in steel and not in gold:-- "Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. [6]
The story goes that you were seized for a ransom, and killed in the struggle. [9]
The King shall ransom them, every one. [5]
We had the ransom ready to be sure; yet Ursula would be almost forced, after her treacherous deed, to pursue Herdegen to his death; what could she look for if he ever came home again? [10]
She desires to ransom herself from a lawful marriage concluded by her father, as if she were a captive of war; perhaps she even wants to follow another. [10]
At the left of the chimney was the great settle, or veille, covered with baize, "flourished" with satinettes, and spread with ferns and rushes, and above it a little shelf of old china worth the ransom of a prince at least. [11]
In the matter of my lord Herdegen's ransom there are many obstacles. [10]
I made good my friend's payment of Herdegen's ransom to the last farthing; yet what pressed me most hardly, so long as my brother lived, was his housekeeping; few indeed in Nuremberg could have spent more. [10]
Ann was far less horror-struck at the fearful sum of the ransom than we had been, by reason that she was ever possessed by the assurance that Heaven had created her and Herdegen for each other, and would bring them together at last. [10]
He had ever known full well that when we did him any Samaritan service it had been to no end save to draw from his purse the money to ransom my brothers and Ann's lover. [10]
No, sir, we'll just go on and ransom them in the regular way. [5]
In introducing me, Judge Ransom spoke of my modesty as if he was envious of me. [5]
One verse of it, beginning "Pay ransom to the owner," has been already quoted; these are the three that precede it:-- "I cause from every creature His proper good to flow: As much as he is and doeth So much shall he bestow. [6]
For a while I was not much troubled, for I was expecting every day to hear that Joan had been put to ransom, and that the King--no, not the King, but grateful France--had come eagerly forward to pay it. [5]
Kunz did not go thither with him, inasmuch as in Alexandria all had been done that might be done to discover and ransom a Frankish captive. [10]
But day after day dragged by and no ransom was offered! [5]
Had the time come when she could pay her debt, the price of ransom from the captivity in which he held her true and secret character? [11]
Moreover a great care came upon me from without, by reason that Sir Franz's kin and heirs refused to repay the moneys for the ransom which Master Michieli of Venice had laid down, and for which Herdegen and I had been sureties. [10]
Why can't a body take a club and ransom them as soon as they get here? [5]
Would your ransom be large enough to cover the cost of a broken church window? [10]
Her pale lips and slender, half-frozen hands trembled as she did so, and in low, musical tones she promised the robbers to yield them all she possessed and pay a large ransom, if they would spare her. [10]
She was not a rebel; she was a legitimately constituted soldier, head of the armies of France by her King's appointment, and guilty of no crime known to military law; therefore she could not be detained upon any pretext, if ransom were proffered. [5]
Twice you fell a prisoner into the hands of the enemy, and I had to ransom you. [10]
The possessor of a French prisoner did not hold him long for ransom, as a rule, but presently killed him to save the cost of his keep. [5]

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