This is a country ofextortioners and extortion from strangers.
I am happy to record the present instance of these extortioners being overreached, or rather, vanquished by an honourable system of trade.
We are distressed more by the extortioners than by the enemy.
Some good may be anticipated from the furious and universal outcry in the Confederate States against the extortioners and speculators in food and fuel.
And these counselors demand the exemption of the Jew extortioners on the ground that they once furnished substitutes, now out of the service!
May God put it into the hearts of the extortioners to relent, and abolish, for a season, the insatiable greed for gain!
The speculators and extortioners who hired substitutes are in consternation--some flying the country since the passage of the bill putting them in the army, and the army is delighted with the measure.
Lawton) are buffeting the project some of us set on foot to obtain wood at cost, $8, instead of paying the extortioners $40 per cord.
Every one seems mad with speculation; and the extortioners prey upon every victim that falls within their power.
An intelligent gentleman from North Carolina told me, to-day, that food was never more abundant in his State; nevertheless, theextortioners are demanding there very high prices.
He suggests that shoes be taken from the extortionersat a fair price.
The speculators and extortioners seem to act in concert, and the government appears to be no match for them.
I hope the extortioners may all go to heaven, first ceasing to be extortioners.
The extortioners ought to be hung, besides losing their property.
I fear a nation of extortioners are unworthy of independence, and that we must be chastened and purified before success will be vouchsafed us.
A letter from Major Boyle, in command at Gordonsville, gives information that the smugglers and extortioners are trading tobacco (contraband) with the enemy at Alexandria.
The extortioners sell everything and imprison everybody as if prisoners of war, and even with more avidity and malice, in order to gain something themselves.
And when this day arrives the extortioners will find that they stand alone.
Can it be that defrauders and extortioners belong to the members of that one dove, and that he does not belong to it to whom the full power of the Lord Jesus Christ was shown by the appearance of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove?
I mean not with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or the extortioners or the servers of idols: otherwise you must needs go out of this world.
Nor the effeminate nor liers with mankind nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor railers nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God.
All this made deep inroads into his parental treasures, but it augmented his popularity, which he vastly extended by bringing to justice the two hated extortioners of Henry VII.
From its nature this sin is mortal, since it shuts out the curser from heaven ("Neither cursers norextortioners shall possess the kingdom of God," I Cor.
Neither thieves nor extortioners shall possess the kingdom of God," I Cor.
It speedily appeared that the two extortioners had abundant assistance at hand to carry out their infamous design.
But far more than the two extortioners did their accuser command attention.
The famine in Bohemia is terrible precisely because the extortioners hold back their grain and will not sell it.
His temple, that usurers and extortioners may buy and sell where once naught was to be heard but praise and worship of Jehovah!
If he preach against extortioners and usurers only, I am with him," Dick Taverner said.
He is where no cruel and perfidious princes, no iniquitous judges, no griping extortioners shall ever enter.
Rather will he take part with the usurers and extortioners who have deprived you of your inheritance.
You probably noticed that the majority of the men victimized by this supposed band of extortioners were prominent in banking circles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extortioners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
