All my anxieties were aggravated by the dread that his promises of release were deceitful like the rest; and that even, though he had no longer doubted of my recovery, the jealousy of Mrs Boswell might have bribed him to detain me.
In all history he remembered only one instance of their deserting their Government and taking part with the people; and that was when the Duke of Orleans had bribed the army of the last of the Bourbon Kings.
The Archdeacon of Canosi, a man full of ambition and pride, desiring the episcopate, and impatient of the long life of Sabine, bribed his butler to poison him.
He bribed a maid to take the message upstairs; and passed his time in the hall in warning the servants.
How iniquitous was the conduct of the sons of Theodosius, in refusing the usual bounty, by which the Goths werebribed not to attack the Empire!
The poor king, after many ravages had been committed, at length bribed his sons to let him sing his last hymns in peace.
Determined at least to punish him, they bribed one of his servants, broke into his house at night, and inflicted upon him the most severe and brutal mutilation.
Paulet, had been bribed into embracing the Roman Catholic religion, in reward for which he was appointed counsellor to the Presidial Court of Montpellier.
If Cavalier were really bribed by any such promises of promotion, at all events such promises were never fulfilled; nor did the French monarch reward him in any way for his endeavours to bring the Camisard insurrection to an end.
Saint Olaf once stroked the arm of a henchman above the elbow to determine whether Canute had bribed him.
Florence of Worcester believes that the witnesses were bribedby Canute and perjured themselves grossly; but the probabilities are, that their statement was accurate.
He had discovered, after patient and almost incredible labors, that Doctor Pratt was the man who had bribed the sexton and obtained the key of the Lawrence vault the night of Lily's interment there.
They would suspect you had bribed me, and they would kill old Haidee.
Briefly, then, I have learned that the sexton was bribed to lend out the key of your vault the night of the funeral, Mr. Lawrence.
Patience, my friend, I bribed the old sexton, I have the key to the vault.
The bribed hosts of Hassan Abdullah, which were to sack Rome, are scattered in flight.
The Epirotes and Albanians in the Senator's service are bribed to our cause.
In the matter of the government, it was a sheer love of oppression that led to the evil of which he complained; in the matter of the judge, that functionary had been bribedby the other party.
The servants who had charge of me were all bribed heavily.
Once an Indian--who had probably been bribed by the French to kill them--shot at them.
There he learned that it would have been burned to the ground, had not his steward bribed some British soldiers to let it stand.
We are told that it was sometime during Washington's sojourn in New York that the British bribed a man to throw poison into the general's dish of pease.
He was tyrannical, licentious, and corrupt, and hoped to be bribed by St. Paul when he would have set him at liberty.
They bribedthe king's chamberlain, and Herod was appeased.
This scoundrel bribed one of the jailers to give Fanfar a drug that would have killed him in five minutes.
Gudel and his friends had bribed the functionaries.
The Union was therefore carried through the instrumentality of a legislature bribed to betray its constituents.
Odd that she should havebribed the Common keeper not to say a word about having met her!
The refusal of the Russian people to be either bribed or deceived into hostility to the Jews is clearly enough demonstrated by the feeling of affection on the part of most intelligent Jews towards the Russian people.
They had gone to spend the winter in the mines of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company; they knew the work, conditions and pay; they had refused to be bribed on the way down, but as they tugged at the junk, a change came over them!
He was tried at length on a charge of having bribed a compositor to steal a printed slip from another newspaper office in the colony.
The traffic depends upon the dishonesty of officials, who are bribed by prisoners' friends to pass it in, the safe keeping and distribution being the work of the prisoners themselves.
The people called it "the shameful peace of Northampton," and firmly believed that he had beenbribed by the Scots.
Solway Moss (1542), and then after James's death bribed and threatened the Scots estates into concluding a treaty of marriage between their infant queen and Henry's son.
The first personal action recorded of him is an unjust harrying of the goods of his own subjects, when he besieged Rochester because he had quarrelled with its bishop over certain lands, and was bribed to depart with 100 pounds of silver.
The priest who used to be here--whom youbribed to go away--he is her night doorkeeper now!
On some inscriptions it is called 'Temple of the Four Winds,' but the old Hindu who lived in it before we bribed him to go away called it the 'Winds of the World.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bribed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
