He has been taken as a hostage for the good behaviour of the population of this town.
Also he had expressed himself as quite willing to be hostage for his flock's good behaviour.
Yes,' said the Herr Doktor reluctantly, 'I fear it is true that you an hostage will have to be.
Then in the night they ran away, and your hostage went to Wassmuss, and has told him all the truth and more untruth into the bargain than ten other men could invent in a year!
That pig you gave me for a hostage played a trick!
That is not possible; my daughter is too precious a hostage for me to think of surrendering her.
Ah," Don Miguel said, "she will be a precious hostage for us.
Nor did he regain his liberty without the payment of a heavy ransom, leaving his son Ladislaus as hostage in his stead.
Queen Isabella also refused to receive this ceremonial of homage, and, to console him under his adversity, delivered to him his son, who had remained as hostage ever since Boabdil's liberation from captivity.
Besides, Boguslav in his hands was a hostage for the safety of Olenka.
You will be a hostage there; you will be responsible to me for all the Billeviches, who I know well do not rank themselves among my friends, and are ready to raise Jmud in rebellion when I am gone.
I will give my daughter Hildegund as a hostage to the Huns.
Etzel then recognized him as a warrior who had been a hostagewith him along with Walthar of Spain and who had done him yeoman service.
He, too, had to give up his son as hostage and pay tribute.
My friend, my near ally, The hostage of your faith, my beauteous charge, is very well.
The prince’s son, Vasili, was detained as hostageat the Horde, but escaped after a three years’ captivity.
As a hostage for the security of the detachment, the son of the governor was to remain in the hands of the French without, until the safe return of the scouting party.
At a little distance from the castle he was met by Almeric de Pavia, who yielded his son as a hostage according to his promise, calculating, as was the case, that he would be recaptured by the English.
Negotiations were begun for peace; but were broken off, because the sultaun would receive no hostage for the evacuation of Damietta but Louis himself; and it was determined to attempt a retreat.
Alexius on this again changed his conduct, and with every profession of regard demanded an interview with the chief of the crusaders, offering his son as a hostage for his good faith.
The Saracen mingled his tears with those of the hostage king, and ordered the army of his enemy to be supplied with food.
If thehostage held by Arsene Lupin should be rescued?
The contest is now drawing to a climax, and I have an idea that a hostage as precious as you will give me an important advantage over my adversary.
And I assure you that she served as hostage of her own free will.
Is not my brother Wulfnoth hostage there For my dead father's loyalty to thee?
This personage, awed by the approach of Achmet's formidable force, sent his son to the advancing Bascha, as a hostage for his loyalty and submission.
To the measure of taking me, the King had an objection, as he considered me as the hostage for my husband and brother.
After some remonstrances and entreaties, he had set her husband and brother-in-law at liberty, but detained her as a hostage for them.
He has, for this reason, resolved to detain you in it, as a hostage for them.
The investiture of the Sherif of Mecca was still vested in them, and they chose the member of his family who was to succeed him, and who was detained as a hostage at Constantinople.
In this connection, Sir, I might mention one point, that the Muslims cannot tolerate any affront to Islam in keeping the Khalifa as a sort of hostage in Constantinople.
Letters of Robert Stobo, Hostage at Fort Duquesne, 1754, in Colonial Records of Pa.
Major Robert Stobo, who, five years before, had been given as a hostage to the French at the capture of Fort Necessity, arrived about this time in a vessel from Halifax.
From the Goths the Romans received as a hostage of peace Theodoric, the young child of Thiudimer, whom we have mentioned above.
Thence he returned as victor to his own home in Pannonia and joyfully received his son Theodoric, once given as hostage to Constantinople and now sent back by the Emperor Leo with great gifts.
Therefore Theodoric was given as a hostage by the Goths and brought to the city of Constantinople to the Emperor Leo and, being a goodly child, deservedly gained the imperial favor.
A hostageis a person accepted as a pledge for the fulfillment of an agreement concluded between belligerents during the war, or in consequence of a war.
Should the captor's vessel be taken with the hostage and ransom bill on board by a vessel of the enemy, the ransom bill is discharged.
If a hostage is accepted, he is treated like a prisoner of war, according to rank and condition, as circumstances may admit.
The captor may bring suit in the courts of the captured vessel's state usually, though in England the process is by action of the imprisoned hostage to recover his freedom.
The captor takes from the captured vessel a hostage for the fulfillment of the ransom contract.
And offer bribes of gold,--and worse than all, My only son as hostage to the foe!
Colonel Bishop should be a hostage for his safety.
Meanwhile my son remains in your hands as a hostage for my return.
By rashly venturing aboard his ship, I afforded him in my own person yet another hostage as valuable at least as Colonel Bishop.
Commandant, and kept me aboard as an added hostage for his obedience to your wishes.
To the conspirators he professed friendship, sent his son among them as a hostage of his sincerity, and so deluded them, that Brutus supped with Lepidus, and Cassius with Antonius.
Roman people; and when your little son was sent by you to the Capitol to be a hostage for peace.
