I urged that one should be reasonable; but he seemed to think not, and to avoid controversy I paid the extortionate franc.
He alone bought and ground the grain, and baked the bread, which he sold to his people at an extortionate price; he bought damaged flour in Genoa and fed it to his subjects at the same rate as good.
I remembered that just a month before, in New York, I had paid an extortionate dollar in like circumstances.
He admired the summary way in which he had disposed of the extortionate inn-keeper, and now looked after him almost in despair; for he did not think the party left behind by any means fit to take care of themselves or each other.
The demand was extortionate and aroused his indignation.
Extortionate as are the ordinary rates of Chinese interest, ranging from twenty-four to forty eight or more per cent.
We have no disposition to apologize for any extortionate or unreasonable charges; for we are very happy to say that any such apology is rarely needed.
Every experienced and fair-minded traveler knows that his fellow passengers are unreasonable and extortionate in their demands fully as often as the transportation companies and their agents are in theirs.
Mark what I say, to regulate it, to prevent it from exacting extortionate rates from the people; to prevent it from putting upon the people abuses in its management, but that does not mean that the state may take its property.
The natural laws we have presented will work imperfectly if, for example, the danger of a coal famine shall forever impend over the public or if this fuel shall be held at an extortionate price.
Prices will be extortionate so long as the trusts are checked only by local rivals and are allowed to club these rivals into submissiveness.
No discontinuance of essential services, no stinting of them, and no demand for extortionate returns for them can be tolerated without a perversion of the economic system.
It must assuredly not bar out the foreigner when the American trust has put its prices at an extortionate level and is using its power to crush all rivalry at home.
How an Extortionate Local Charge may sometimes be reduced without Injury to a Railroad.
The Governor wished to appear perfectly disinterested amidst this confusion and these extortionate demands of the Tuaricks.
The judgment obtained by the extortionate farmer was about twenty dollars, and he finally had to pay over to Jordan, as Stranahan's attorney, the difference between these sums.
No bargain had been made, and when, at the journey's end, Jordan inquired what he should pay, the sharp farmer named a most extortionate sum.
Amongst others he mentions how a native, in a fit of desperation, had killed an extortionate tax-gatherer.
Some years ago, a correspondent of an English paper displayed his ignorance on the matter by maintaining that the Company coerced the natives and forced them to buy Manchester goods at extortionate prices.
Grain was brought from the district east of the Dead Sea, but none of it found its way to civilian mouths except through the extortionate channel provided by officers.
He sent officers to collect mostextortionate taxes with power to torture at discretion.
The governors everywhere oppressed the Armenians with little intermission, levying heavy taxes and inflicting extortionate fines for their own private use.
I announced in the public journals that the General could not appear in Bordeaux on account of the cupidity and extortionate demands of the theatre manager and the hospital directors.
At these houses extortionate charges are commonly made for food, lodging, etc.
Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.
Men who had never drawn more than a common laborer's wages found themselves at a premium in the market, and began to ask and receive extortionate prices, and to rove from place to place seeking still higher prices.
At Tandinskaya we changed teams, successfully resenting the extortionatecharges made by the postmaster.
In a community as dependent on the railways as the Northwest was, the iniquity of discriminatory or extortionate rates was soon seen.
The double weight ofextortionate prices and heavy interest impressed a large section of the South with the scarcity of cash and the evils of existing finance.
The travellers will, however, soon have their revenge on the extortionate proprietors; a railroad is constructing, by means of which this distance will be traversed in a much shorter time, and at a great saving of expense.
Their anxiety to gain money without labour annoyed me less than the extortionate prices with which they tried to impose on a stranger.
It was with the greatest difficulty that loading camels could be obtained at all, owing to the deficiency of exports, and this partly accounted for the extortionate prices demanded.
