From the producer who grows to the tapster who sells, what extortions and what vexations!
Let us closely examine the extortions he has to endure, which are very great, much beyond any that we can imagine.
Relieve us of all these extortions and of the excisemen; we are great sufferers through all these devices; now is the time to change them; never shall we be happy as long as these last.
He should also depute proper persons to investigate the extortions and other evil acts of the inquisitors, which had excited general complaint, and he should summarily punish the perpetrators to serve as an example.
He knew that should complaint be made of him at Rome, his corruption and cruelties, his extortions and the unjustifiable slaughter he had caused would all be brought against him.
JAMES, John, his account of the extortions practised in Newgate, i.
He had resisted theextortions of some persecuting dignitaries of the Establishment, and subjected them, on two or three occasions, to most mortifying defeats.
The extortions of the almamy were such that under pretext of there being an old debt left unpaid by the English Government, Major Gray was mulcted of nearly all his baggage, and had to send an officer to the Senegal for a fresh supply.
His convalescence was slow, but he was fortunately spared the extortions of the natives, owing to the letters of introduction he had brought with him from Tripoli and to the sedulous care of his host, a native of that city.
Like his predecessors in Africa, Laing had to go through many discussions about the right of passage through the country and bearers' wages, but thanks to his firmness he managed to escape the extortions of the negro kings.
They went down the river, whose width varies greatly, avoiding large towns as much as possible, for they had no means of satisfying the extortions of the chiefs.
Extortions were common to all such places, but they were carried to their worst extent at the Fleet.
In feudal times, the extortions of the Barons were undeniable; and compulsory labour was a humiliating hardship.
To these latter years belong almost entirely the extortions of Empson and Dudley; the harsh treatment of Katharine of Aragon, a helpless hostage in his hands; the revolting proposal for a union with the crazy Joanna of Castile.
The law should be so amended as to prevent oppressions and extortions in the sale and use of articles of real merit, for which the inventor should be rewarded, and should have an exclusive right to use and sell his invention.
These balance sheets do not present the truth in any instance, and have not that purpose, being only an exhibit that will apparently justify the many extortions and deceptions practiced by these corporations.
It strikes terror into the hearts of the unscrupulous men, who are willing to sacrifice honor, country, and future happiness for the purpose of amassing wealth, by extortions practiced upon the sweating, toiling millions who till the ground.
One of the chief causes of this deplorable state of affairs is the absolute control obtained by these petted monopolists over our inland commerce, and their tyrannical extortions in rates for transportation.
The fact was that he was a money-lender, and his extortions caused him to be hated.
While the grasping priesthood professed poverty and self-denial, they were continually enriching themselves by robberies and extortions upon the ignorant and superstitious common people.
The same extortions and reprehensible practices are still resorted to in order to keep up this "institution.
His extortions are as boundless in their sum as in their ingenuity.
A new Postmaster may remove any or all of them, to make way for his political friends, and any refusal on their part to submit to the orders or extortions of their party-managers is sure to result in a dismissal.
They hoped thus to escape the extortions of other chiefs to the westward.
On the 9th of June he arrived in a district governed by a chief called Myonga, famed for his extortions and infamous conduct, in consequence of which no Arabs would pass that way.
But the manner of extorting, and the individuals employed to extort, were more humiliating to its dignity and independence than the extortions themselves were injurious to its resources.
Of course the more elaborate and best wrought specimens of wood-carving command high prices, but nothing like the extortions of the fancy goods stores in America.
Harmahib had to bring order as a practical man into the long-neglected administration of the country and to suppress the extortions of the official classes by severe measures.
Besides the extortions to which this practice gave occasion the country suffered greatly in these centuries from famine and pestilence.
The caliph's personal government appears to have been incompetent, and to have been marked by extortions and other arbitrary measures.
Well, at any rate, whatever we choose to say, what limit do you think he will place upon his extortions now that he holds our secret?
As he paced up and down the library, these and many other thoughts swept across his brain, and he was undecided whether to submit to these extortions or throw the agent out of the window.
His extortions were the more resented since he kept no order; the environs of the city swarmed with brigands and footpads, and kidnappers were allowed to work their will inside the city.
In the thirteenth century, when papal extortions were a subject of complaint in every European state, Frederic II put himself forward as the champion of the common interest, and appealed from the Pope to the bar of public opinion.
In 68 he had been Praetor, the next year Governor in Africa, where by hisextortions he had obtained enough money, as he hoped, to purchase his election to the consulship.
There he obtained an insight into the corrupt extortionsof the Roman governors.
When junkmen and fishermen discovered that the extortions of the foreigner were damaging as the exactions of the native pirate, they tried to make terms with the latter; but it was too late.
In this way, these bank extortions and tariff extortions are thrown ultimately upon the people who consume the goods which the bank capital is employed in producing and selling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extortions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
