Sentence example with the word 'extorting'

extorting

Last update: August 5, 2015


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Matthias, as the next-door neighbour of the Turks, claimed the custody of so valuable a hostage, and would have used him as a means of extorting concessions from Bayezid.   [Please select]

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Pris, 'If that you do Persuade and woo: No, pleasure's by extorting fed.'   [Please select]

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He glared with eyes accustomed to extorting facts from savages, depending on physical weakness so to undermine my will that I would give my secret away, perhaps without knowing it.   [Please select]

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For Gâmu piled up the shekels until his master, after the mutiny, had reluctantly to hang him for extorting blood-, as well as shoe-money.   [Please select]

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