The first thing was to pour French troops into Italy so as to extort better terms: the next was to declare war on Venice.
Probably his dextrous disclosure of the severe terms which the Directory ordered him to extortwas far more effective than this boisterous gasconnade.
However, I am glad to see that He did not extort money from the Samaritan woman, differing in this respect from our clergy, who take care to be well paid for their divinations.
The authors of the Hindoo mythology could not have invented in their fertile imagination a sanguinary character more singularly calculated to inspire terror[74] and thereby extort the blind adoration of an ignorant populace.
But to extort a promise, by secluding and threatening the King, would have been highly treasonable and dangerous, nor need James have kept a promise made under duress.
Others have thought that the Ruthvens wished to extort from James a promise about certain money which he owed to Gowrie.
He did not do this himself, but he gave forged letters, for money, to men who were in debt to the dead Logan's estate, and who might use the letters to extort remission of what they owed.
Lord Bacon, that it was a pretty constant practice of the king's purveyors to extort large sums of money by threatening to cut down favourite trees which grew near a mansion-house or in avenues.
Mundphoda--The Gurzmar fakirs, who beat their heads until they bleed in order to extort charity.
Such persons, by taking advantage of the fears of the superstitious Hindus, extortmoney and other presents from them.
The martyrdom of Rohatzek, however, was a mere trifle compared with the ordeal by which the tribunal of Paris tried in vain to extort a confession of the would-be regicide, Damiens.
Damiens, who had stumbled, was instantly seized and dragged to prison, where a convocation of expert torturers exhausted their ingenuity in the attempt to extort a confession implicating the Jesuits, a conspiracy of Huguenots, etc.
He accused the father of trying to extort money from him, and appealed for "protection" from "impending calamities.
Afterwards the Registrar concluded that the case had been got up by the watchman to extort money from the women.
Wolsey had used his legatine authority to extort money from monasteries as the price of their immunity from his visitatorial powers.
But advantage was taken of Philip's plight to extort from him the surrender of the Earl of Suffolk, styled the White Rose, and a commercial treaty with the Netherlands, which the Flemings named the Malus Intercursus.
I exhibited, in affecting colours, the helpless condition of Eliza; but could extort from him nothing but his consent that, if she chose, she might come and live with him.
I thought it best once more to endeavour to extort information from the girl, and persuade her to be my guide to whomsoever the house contained.
He endeavoured to extort from me the cause of my solitude and sorrow.
It is true, that the law had sometimes otherwise decreed, but in law there was no validity further than it was able, by investigation and punishment, to enforce its decrees: but would the law extortthis money from me?
Far from soothing the profound irritation which this affair produced in France, Bismarck poured oil upon the flames a few days later by a speech which seemed designed to extort from France a declaration of war.
By violent means it sought to extort what a large proportion of the townsfolk wished for and found no means of demanding in a lawful manner.
I remember receiving a report respecting a violent altercation which Fauche had the audacity to enter into with Comte de Gimel because he could not extort money from the Count in payment of his intrigues.
They endeavoured, by every possible means, to extort a confession from him, but without success.
In the course of the long proceedings, notwithstanding the manifest efforts of Thuriot to extort false admissions and force contradictions, no fact of any consequence was elicited to the prejudice of Moreau.
Nevertheless these brave fellows, from whom it was not astonishing that such great privations should extort complaints, often compensated by their pleasantries for the bitterness of their reproaches.
An instrument formerly used in Scotland, like a vice, to pinch the thumbs of persons accused of different crimes, in order to extort confession.
He had spotted the place some days before and ascertained that it was empty, and when he found that Sir Horace had returned alone he decided to break in, and, covering Sir Horace with a revolver, try to extort money from him.
The Bounding Boy skipped about in front of the captive, menacing him with his tomahawk, now on one side and now on another, and then again in front, in the vain hope of being able to extort some sign of fear by this parade of danger.
The magistrates, however, interfered, and endeavored to extort a confession from Goethe.
Padre Bonaventura pointed out that it would be worse than useless to pay the money for reproductions which could be multiplied and used to extort more.
Complaint is made to me that you are forcing negroes into the military service, and even torturing them--riding them on rails and the like to extort their consent.
If we now recognize this doctrine by allowing the seceders to go in peace, it is difficult to see what we can do if others choose to go or to extort terms upon which they will promise to remain.
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