But the cure hoping to recall the extortioner to something like. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
But the cure hoping to recall the extortioner to something like a sense of shame, exclaimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Honor of the Name] Reference
Whoever was not a klepht was the victim of some official extortioner. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
He was a dangerous man, runner of protection rackets, extortioner, murderer. From Wordnik.com. [Mortal Causes]
Thus, the paying off must be for something else, unique to that extortioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Demanding Settlement for Clearly Baseless Lawsuit = Criminal Extortion:] Reference
Falstaff has become the exemplary glutton, Shylock the extortioner par excellence. From Wordnik.com. [MOTIF] Reference
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. From Wordnik.com. [Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences] Reference
Such is the universal practice of the East: in the West the extortioner says, “I leave it to you, sir!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Paying off the extortioner does not help if the hairdresser is really liable, since somebody else would sue. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Demanding Settlement for Clearly Baseless Lawsuit = Criminal Extortion:] Reference
And I won't have them from Shust's, either, "said Aunt Pen," for he is simply the greatest extortioner since old. From Wordnik.com. [Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature] Reference
One to destroy the extortioner as soon as he declared himself, and the other to take away the body and dispose of it by night. From Wordnik.com. [The Sanctuary Sparrow]
Now the two, Anti and Cardif, who had been partners for decades, faced each other as enemies: the extortioner and the extorted. From Wordnik.com. [The Man with Two Faces]
Doctor as yet, for he that the Captain went to agree with was a drunkard and an extortioner, so we are better without him than with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
West the extortioner says, "I leave it to you, sir!". From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
The portly extortioner did not invite custom, either. From Wordnik.com. [Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee] Reference
It was evident we had to deal with a born extortioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Trail] Reference
I was thus decided, because I saw I had to deal with an extortioner. From Wordnik.com. [Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"] Reference
We have already stated that Fardorougha was not only an extortioner, but. From Wordnik.com. [Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Foreboding had entered even the hearts of the forestaller and extortioner. From Wordnik.com. [Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee] Reference
"Thou art a drunkard and a glutton;" "And thou an extortioner," to a fourth. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell] Reference
I said, If the slaveholder be not an extortioner, then no man under heaven is. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of John G. Fee: Berea, Kentucky] Reference
The extortioner is still pursuing his heartless traffic and amassing his gains. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Called Session of 1863.] Reference
Wherever he could get his hands on a speculator or extortioner, he shook him up. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Of Georgia] Reference
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath, and let the stranger spoil his labor. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc.] Reference
And as he spoke, off went the furious little extortioner, irretrievably offended. From Wordnik.com. [Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
To satisfy the claims of the Palace the Patriarch was compelled to be an extortioner himself. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference
Congress has the power under Amendment XVI to tax as income monies received by an extortioner. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
A great disturbance was in the streets, the people almost fighting with these extortioner ruffians. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
He starved them with hunger and cold, got out of them what money they had, and paid the extortioner. From Wordnik.com. [Montcalm and Wolfe] Reference
Moreover, he knew that the death of one extortioner more or less would have no effect on the system. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
Mrs. Marteen was a blackmailer, an extortioner -- that was the truth, the truth that he would not let himself recognize. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Ashes] Reference
Quirinius should be publicly sold for the benefit of the State and the profit of those whom the extortioner had wronged. From Wordnik.com. ["Unto Caesar"] Reference
His books were put aside with a shudder, and he walked abroad with a changed gait; the old extortioner was levying on his nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Strong Hearts] Reference
You have resigned your ambitious schemes and consented to endure the hardness while the extortioner and the laggard win the profit. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons, 1861-1865,] Reference
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