Sentence example with the word 'extorted'

extorted

Last update: November 3, 2015


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For this display of independence he was imprisoned at Reims, and not released till some three years later, when Napoleon had extorted terms from the captive pope at Fontainebleau.   [Please select]

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These were nothing more nor less than gifts extorted from the well-to-do, generally by moral pressure.   [Please select]

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No poems have ever been more popular, and none have extorted greater admiration from critics.   [Please select]

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The missions of the early Jesuits extorted praises from Baxter and panegyric from Liebnitz.   [Please select]

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[3] CHARTERS The contract which the citizens extorted from their lord was known as a charter.   [Please select]

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In turn, the Kings extorted immense sums from them.   [Please select]

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