That he did not perish on the Argentina, but drifted home, and blackmailed his former wife.
Closely questioned by Mr. Reginald Pepys, she was forced to admit that the man who blackmailed her was connected with her early life in a way which would have brought terrible disgrace upon her and upon her children.
So far as I knew I was the only person who could guess that Mr. Grell had been blackmailed and so supply a motive for the crime.
Joe found a gang sabotaging the pushpots that didn't think like the gang that blackmailed Braun.
But he had been blackmailed into accepting a container of atomic death to be released in the Shed.
This isn't the first time," said Major Holt detachedly, "that a man has been blackmailed into trying sabotage.
To have blackmailed him at all was so utterly unlike what he knew of her that he told himself he knew nothing at all, and if this conjecture was right, she became something monstrous, something portentous.
He blackmailed me twice over it, sending me once a copy of the letter, the second time the letter itself.
I wonder you dared think it was I who blackmailed you.
It is perfectly clear who blackmailed you, and if you like you can have him in the hollow of your hand.
Having successfully blackmailed him, had Dorothy, in order to emphasize his own weakness, told his wife that which he had already paid so much to keep secret?
He denounced both Collins and Vanderbilt as plunderers, and then, in so many words, specifically accused Vanderbilt of having blackmailed millions of dollars.
But Roberts and his associate trustees succeeded in making the Government recoup them, to a considerable extent, for the amount out of which Vanderbilt blackmailed them.
Not many months before, he had contrived to get himself blackmailed by the family of a Wallachian Hospodar, resident for political reasons in the gay city of Paris.
Then it rushed over me that I was being blackmailed for the theft of the bronze piece; and all my merely superstitious fears and doubts were swallowed up in one overpowering, practical question.
He blackmailed his brother from Australia for his little forgotten crime (that is why he took the cab to Wagga Wagga in Putney), he blackmailed his sister for the theft he alone could have noticed.
It is much more likely that the blackmailed person would try to kill his incubus, rather than that the blackmailer would try to kill the goose that lays his golden egg.
You ruin me, and now you would blackmail me--as you and that woman Crisp have blackmailed others.
The man's assertion that his name was Crowe, and that he was a doctor when she had recognised him as an intimate friend of the woman who had blackmailed her lover, aroused the girl's anger and indignation.
But he was blackmailed by that adventuress, your friend, Mrs Crisp, and when at last he decided to unmask and prosecute the woman and her friends he was one morning found dead in very mysterious circumstances.
If his "sister-disciples" failed him in funds, then he simply held their letters and blackmailed them till he drove them to desperation, and in six known cases to suicide.
Being in want of money, and being blackmailedby a penniless lover named Sievers, she would probably be ready to become our friend.
At any rate, Sprague knew that Miles was the only person among all the company who had a real motive for killing Nita Selim, and he undoubtedly blackmailed Miles as a murderer as well as a bigamist.
Let us suppose that Flora Miles was not in love with Sprague, but that she was being blackmailed by Nita for some scandal Nita had heard gossiped about at the Forsyte School.
You wereblackmailed too for a disgusting letter you wrote my son,' he went on.
What is the thing for which Caldwell blackmailed you three years ago and again this year?
And so you blackmailed him under threat of telling, did you?
A bankruptcy company promoter named Werner discovered the secret and blackmailed the squire into surrendering the estate.
Hundreds of firms have beenblackmailed in this way.
I have heard that the Chinese of San Francisco for years were blackmailed by Americans, and obliged to raise money to fight bills in the Legislature.
She can't blackmail everybody as she blackmailed me.
We decided that unless we conformed to the custom of always beating down a bargain-adversary, the Druse would think we could be blackmailed for any amount of money.
All the stowaways, in fact, except ourselves, were blackmailed in this fashion.
She knew something about him and blackmailed him, as she did lots of others.
It is even asserted that he blackmailed the women who had trusted him on paper, and forced them to wring votes from their men.
It is written by a woman, who, with her husband, has blackmailed me and jeopardized my reputation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blackmailed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
