Money was extorted from London by an illegal proclamation by which every house had to pay three years' rental to the Crown to save itself from demolition.
The chamberlain had extorted enormous sums, had intercepted fines meant for the king's treasury, and had sold a castle to the enemy.
It is styled "written" or "literal" because it goes no farther and does not enter the heart, nor are there any resulting works other than hypocritical and extorted ones.
A surrender extorted when capture is certain, like a confession made when crime can not be denied, has never yet been allowed to lessen the punishment of the guilty.
When Grattan extorted from England's weakness the unworkable and impracticable constitution of 1782, the danger which had always been present became immensely increased.
As ultimately extorted from the unfortunate Fian, his confession shows a remarkable mixture of imposture and self-deception--a patchwork of the falsehoods he believed and those he invented.
There was deep and sturdy attachment to ancient traditions, privileges, special constitutions extorted from a power acknowledged to be superior to the people.
That which had been extorted by force would be plucked back by force.
By these and the like declarations, he extorted some compunction from Tom, in which that youth was not over-sincere; for he really meditated some return for all the smarting favours he had received at the hands of the pedagogue.
Madam," answered Sophia, trembling, "what I have said you have extorted from me.
My expenses now greatly exceeded not only my former income, but those additions which I extorted from my poor generous father, on pretences of sums being necessary for preparing for my approaching degree of batchelor of arts.
The consequence of this was, so severe a whipping, that it possibly fell little short of the torture with which confessions are in some countries extorted from criminals.
His ecclesiastical jurisdiction was venal and rapacious; he extorted frequent contributions from the most opulent of the faithful, and converted to his own use a considerable part of the public revenue.
Theodosius had the address to persuade his allies, that the conditions of peace, which had beenextorted from him by prudence and necessity, were the voluntary expressions of his sincere friendship for the Gothic nation.
He acknowledges the irregularity of his own election, while he justifies, in some measure, the resentment and violence of the troops which had extorted his reluctant consent.
Galerius at lengthextorted from him the permission of summoning a council, composed of a few persons the most distinguished in the civil and military departments of the state.
His prayers and threats, the authority of the sovereign, the sophistry of Valens and Ursacius, the distress of cold and hunger, and the tedious melancholy of a hopeless exile, at length extorted the reluctant consent of the bishops of Rimini.
They had now arrived at Julifunda, the chief of which place extortedfrom Park goods to the value of two hundred bars, before he would suffer the party to proceed.
In default of English money, enough to meet the king's necessities was extorted from the Jews, recently handed over to the custody of Richard of Cornwall.
Much earlier than that, in 1293, Edward had extorted on her deathbed from the great heiress, Isabella of Fors, Countess of Albemarle and Devon, the bequest of the Isle of Wight and the adjacent castle of Christchurch.
The rigour with which Master Stephen, the pope's collector, extorted the tax was bitterly resented.
Edward did his best to put him off, but Peckham's importunity extorted from him a short truce, during which the primate visited Snowdon, taking with him an offer of an ample estate in England if the prince would surrender his patrimony.
The barons made it a grievance that his brother Richard was ill-provided for, and a rising in 1227 extorted a further provision for him from what was regarded as the niggardliness of the justiciar.
Beside the tribute which they imposed on all, and what they extorted in addition, they wandered to and fro stealing whatever any one possessed.
The prudence and foresight which Giovanni exhibited not only preserved his authority among his friends, but extorted respect from his opponents.
Protection is the English for sixpence; and what is more, it is the English for an extorted sixpence.
It is hardly conceivable that such a sum can be extorted from a population whose wealth is precarious, and whose living is so costly.
They met together in full view of the pilgrims, after the battle, and took lunch, divided the bucksheesh extorted in the season of danger, and then accompanied the cavalcade home to the city!
Twice, for one minute, they let me rest while they extorted bucksheesh, and then continued their maniac flight up the Pyramid.
On more than one occasion the regent publicly declared that the confederates had taken unfair advantage of her fears, and that she did not feel herself bound by an engagement which had been extorted from her by threats.
Immediately after Egmont's seizure a writing was extorted from him, addressed to the commandant of the citadel of Ghent, ordering that officer to deliver the fortress to the Spanish Colonel Alphonso d'Ulloa.
I am therefore compelled to break the silence which I had hoped always to observe, and to solicit from the readers of Lord Byron's "Life" an impartial consideration of the testimony extorted from me.
Testimony extorted by conscience from a parent against a child, or a wife against a husband, where all the other actions of the life prove the existence of kind feeling, is held to be the strongest form of evidence.
Disdaining the pleadings of his mother and of his spouse, he extorted permission from Philip, and flew to the seat of war in the Levant.
He smoothed matters with the extravagant Reformers, and he even extorted from the authorities of Ghent the forty-five thousand pounds bond, on which Elizabeth had insisted with such obduracy.
In most of these movements we see especially a simultaneous rising among the people, in the more civilized countries of Europe, to obtain charters of freedom and municipal and political privileges, extorted from monarchs in their necessities.
The missions of the early Jesuits extorted praises from Baxter and panegyric from Liebnitz.
Nothing but the results of the Tennessee campaign prevented Lee from recruiting his army and extorted from him his sword at Appomatox Court-House.
No display of military genius could have extorted from Lee his sword so long as his resources were unwasted.
Next day the completely exhausted, but victorious, French army extortedfrom the dazed Austrians a convention by which all Italy up to the Mincio was evacuated by them.
In an age remarkable for grace of manner and for adroitness of compliment, his courteous demeanour and the art with which he refused or granted a favour extorted the admiration of every one with whom he came in contact.
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