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    1. They could steal money from bank accounts, break into important military installations, and hold the world for ransom


    2. I will tell her they insult our ancestors and hold our village to ransom


    3. cross over, so that the ransom of the


    4. prisoners on board at that time were transferred over to the Kate Prince as part of the ransom agreement


    5. to ransom the Milo if Hawes accepted the conditions


    6. Waddell knew he would need to ransom


    7. The captain came on board and in a very few moments agreed to ransom the ship for $30,000 and to


    8. The decision to ransom the Milo was really based on having a wife and two children on board, too many


    9. efficiently, he was determined to ransom the next Yankee ship


    10. Either they demand an exorbitant ransom in gold or, less pleasantly, sell the child into some sort of slavery, which is precisely why the little one was brought to Water-Down

    11. There’s an underground slave trade in the town, obviously involving the eventual transport of the victims to far-off lands if ransom is not made


    12. This chap was taken by thugs who not only took his money, but sent a ransom note to the Captain demanding more


    13. “The abductors were holed up in a shack near the edge of town, but had spies skulking around, all to learn when the ransom would be paid


    14. No trace, no word—not even a ransom demand


    15. My fear is that they’ve been taken hostage and will be offered for ransom at some point


    16. “That’s heartless,” uttered Coal, horrified that people could buy, sell, and ransom other folk in such a cold and cavalier manner


    17. Dorro has fronted all the gold for the ransom


    18. They could double-cross us and try to get both the ransom and the children


    19. Between thoughts of Coal and the idea that he was parting with the ransom money, Bosco was feeling more apprehensive by the second


    20. “What if I told you there are and that, in fact, we have received a ransom demand

    21. If he admitted that Kay was his daughter, then she would not be bound by the servant clause of their agreement – but it could create an entirely new ransom situation


    22. France also invaded in 1838-39, blockading nearly all Mexican ports and extracting a ransom over money allegedly owed to a French pastry shop owner, the Pastry War


    23. Criminal Kidnappers are believed to make $500 million a year from ransom payments and this figure is only the ones we know about


    24. A favourite trick in South Africa is to use your bank cards to draw as much money as possible before they demand the ransom


    25. There exists private security groups who can do negotiations and drop of any ransom


    26. He told how he had once been a programmer, a very good one he claimed, earning a king’s ransom as salary


    27. 24 Then he is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom


    28. 18 Because there is wrath, beware lest he take you away with his stroke, then a great ransom cannot deliver you


    29. any ransom, neither will he rest contented, even if you give many gifts


    30. ransom for a man's life are his riches, but the poor does not hear rebuke; the light of the righteous rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked

    31. ransom if it was given! Instructions as to the method of using the incense is regulated


    32. 22 For they became the ransom to the


    33. Woe to you, you fools, for through your folly shall you perish, and you transgress against the wise, and so good hap shall not be your portion; And now, know you that you are prepared for the day of destruction; therefore do not hope to live, you sinners, but you shall depart and die; for you know no ransom; for you are prepared for the day of the great judgement, for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits; Woe to you, you obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood; How have you good things to eat and to drink and to be filled? From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the Earth; therefore you shall have no peace


    34. 28 And they said to him, Because we heard that Ishmaelites stole him from us, and it was told to us that they sold him in Egypt, and your servant, our brother, is very comely and well favored, so we thought he would surely be in the houses of harlots, therefore your servants went there to seek him and give ransom for him;


    35. 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatever is laid on him


    36. 30 If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom


    37. shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou


    38. Woe to you you fools for through your folly shall you perish and you transgress against the wise and so good hap shall not be your portion; And now know you that you are prepared for the day of destruction; therefore do not hope to live you sinners but you shall depart and die; for you know no ransom; for you are prepared for the day of the great judgement for the day of tribulation and great shame for your spirits; Woe to you you obstinate of heart who work wickedness and eat blood; How have you good things to eat and to drink and to be filled? From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the Earth; therefore you shall have no peace


    39. 28 And they said to him Because we heard that Ishmaelites stole him from us and it was told to us that they sold him in Egypt and your servant our brother is very comely and well favored so we thought he would surely be in the houses of harlots therefore your servants went there to seek him and give ransom for him;


    40. 22 For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel previously afflicted by the blood of those pious ones and the propitiatory death

    41. Join your adversary quickly and while you are still with him in the way give a ransom and free yourself from him; test your adversary deliver you to the judge and the judge deliver you to the tax- collector and you fall into prison; And Truely I say to you You shall not go out from there until you pay the last farthing


    42. What shall a man profit if he gain all the world and destroy his own life or lose ite or what will a man give in ransom for his lifee whoever shall deny me and my sayings in this sinful and adulterous generation the Son of man also will deny him when he comes in the glory of his Father with his holy angels


    43. Not so shall it be among you: but he among you who would be great let him be to you a 4 servant; and whoever of you would be first let him be to every man a 5 bondservant; even as the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve and 6 to give himself a ransom in place of the many


    44. At that time there had been a spate of kidnappings of influential people across Europe, but luckily without much success and the gang mostly didn’t get away with any ransom money; and as far as I know, nobody except Jane was killed


    45. My bet is he struck off on his own—but if he hasn't, how much ransom are you willing to pay?"


    46. When his ransom was eventually paid up, the kidnappers gave him parting gifts because they had grown to like the prince and his amazing stories


    47. barons, and they hold society ransom


    48. How swiftly came my dream’s repass, that awful portent of my cost: my life, without a ransom chance


    49. This may be done for ransom or in furtherance of another crime, or in connection with a child custody dispute


    50. Express kidnapping is a method of abduction used in some countries, mainly from Latin America, where a small ransom, that a company or family can easily pay, is demanded














































    1. This ship was ransomed because women were on board, and Waddell did not want to


    2. ransomed when it was discovered that she had been sold to non-


    3. It was the second ship ransomed in the Bering Sea for taking prisoners away from the


    4. from where she had been ransomed and was now halfway


    5. ransomed and her mate was directed to take the vessel to


    6. One other ship was ransomed in order to accommodate the large


    7. Captain Waddell began to be concerned about the ransomed


    8. About ten days after the Milo arrived, both ransomed


    9. The Milo was lucky to be ransomed and to be able to continue in whaling after the summer of 1865


    10. were ransomed was to provide for the return of prisoners to a

    11. ransomed, but was also aware that others may have resented his


    12. by other families whose ships were not ransomed during the


    13. It was ransomed by the lives of the many brave young men and women who stood in defense of freedom, which our flag remains the


    14. a way for the ransomed to pass over? 11 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and


    15. 11 For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him who was


    16. You were abducted by the Outland Rebels, filleted and devoured as part of a sacrifice by the church, ransomed off, suicide, your family issued a statement


    17. Eventually the crew and the ship would be ransomed back to the shipping company less the cargo


    18. Now you see that's a lovely church term, but what does that mean inside? If I don't have a way of engaging with what that means, it won't mean anything except: oh, we're redeemed by the blood; and the person's thinking: yeah, we are, we're redeemed by - let's sing about it! Well singing about it is good, but it's not a substitute for embracing the truth in your heart - I am totally ransomed


    19. Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake as in the ancient days, as in the generations of old, and make the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed of the Lord to pass over


    20. When with the ransomed in glory

    21. ’ It is applied to the redemption of a farm sold, by paying back the price, Lev 25:25; Rut 4:4; Rut 4:6 to anything consecrated to God that is redeemed by paying its value, Lev 27:13 and to a slave that is ransomed, Lev 25:48-49


    22. To these banos, as I have said, some private individuals of the town are in the habit of bringing their captives, especially when they are to be ransomed; because there they can keep them in safety and comfort until their ransom arrives


    23. I, however, was one of those on ransom, for when it was discovered that I was a captain, although I declared my scanty means and want of fortune, nothing could dissuade them from including me among the gentlemen and those waiting to be ransomed


    24. These were the words and contents of the second paper, and on hearing them, each declared himself willing to be the ransomed one, and promised to go and return with scrupulous good faith; and I too made the same offer; but to all this the renegade objected, saying that he would not on any account consent to one being set free before all went together, as experience had taught him how ill those who have been set free keep promises which they made in captivity; for captives of distinction frequently had recourse to this plan, paying the ransom of one who was to go to Valencia or Majorca with money to enable him to arm a bark and return for the others who had ransomed him, but who never came back; for recovered liberty and the dread of losing it again efface from the memory all the obligations in the world


    25. We at once gave the renegade five hundred crowns to buy the vessel, and with eight hundred I ransomed myself, giving the money to a Valencian merchant who happened to be in Algiers at the time, and who had me released on his word, pledging it that on the arrival of the first ship from Valencia he would pay my ransom; for if he had given the money at once it would have made the king suspect that my ransom money had been for a long time in Algiers, and that the merchant had for his own advantage kept it secret


    26. The Thursday before the Friday on which the fair Zoraida was to go to the garden she gave us a thousand crowns more, and warned us of her departure, begging me, if I were ransomed, to find out her father's garden at once, and by all means to seek an opportunity of going there to see her


    27. This having been done, steps were taken to ransom our three comrades, so as to enable them to quit the bano, and lest, seeing me ransomed and themselves not, though the money was forthcoming, they should make a disturbance about it and the devil should prompt them to do something that might injure Zoraida; for though their position might be sufficient to relieve me from this apprehension, nevertheless I was unwilling to run any risk in the matter; and so I had them ransomed in the same way as I was, handing over all the money to the merchant so that he might with safety and confidence give security; without, however, confiding our arrangement and secret to him, which might have been dangerous


    28. But God, who ordered it otherwise, afforded no opportunity for our renegade's well-meant purpose; and he, seeing how safely he could go to Shershel and return, and anchor when and how and where he liked, and that the Tagarin his partner had no will but his, and that, now I was ransomed, all we wanted was to find some Christians to row, told me to look out for any I should be willing to take with me, over and above those who had been ransomed, and to engage them for the next Friday, which he fixed upon for our departure


    29. She took up the conversation, and in that mixture of tongues I have spoken of she asked me if I was a gentleman, and why I was not ransomed


    30. I answered that I was already ransomed, and that by the price it might be seen what value my master set on me, as I had given one thousand five hundred zoltanis for me; to which she replied, "Hadst thou been my father's, I can tell thee, I would not have let him part with thee for twice as much, for you Christians always tell lies about yourselves and make yourselves out poor to cheat the Moors

    31. They had arrested him for the purpose of robbery, and as he had only a few louis about him, he doubted not he would be ransomed


    32. As I was saying last night, they intend me to be ransomed


    33. Who could these men be? Who was the invisible chief? What could be his intentions towards him? And why, when every one else was allowed to be ransomed, might he not also be? Oh, yes; certainly a speedy, violent death would be a fine means of


    34. The Gould Concession had ransomed its way through all those years


    35. In his youth he was a soldier, was taken prisoner by the Crusaders and forced to work in the ditches of Tripoli, whence he was ransomed by a merchant whose daughter he subsequently married


    36. Not till a month later was Kostylín ransomed for five thousand


    37. The missionaries among them behold the time when God will make for them a way, even a highway, that shall be the way of holiness, in which the redeemed shall walk and the ransomed of the Lord shall come to Zion with joy and gladness


    1. Petersburg for the purpose of ransoming him; but Peter would not surrender his godson who died at the age of ninety-two, having attained the rank of general in the Russian service


    1. Despite the huge ransoms they were paid repeatedly by various kings and nobles to go away, they kept breaking their word and returned to cause more deaths and misery to the little people of Europe


    2. King Charles had more than once already paid huge ransoms to the Vikings to make them go away, ransoms raised through crushing new taxes imposed on the merchants and peasants of the kingdom, instead of assembling a proper army and fight the northern invaders


    3. Instead of forming an army to chase those Vikings from his kingdom, he instead squeezed his subjects dry in order to pay a number of astronomical ransoms to keep the Vikings away, all in vain


    4. We will use them instead to help improve the lot of his subjects, who after all paid extra taxes in order to collect those ransoms for the Vikings


    5. And when they found us, after the trouble we'd caused, I didn't think they would bother with our ransoms


    6. If I could win a few ransoms, we’d eat well on the ride north, he thought, but the lord with the three castles on his shield said, “Ser Duncan needs to be about his journey, as do we


    7. If I could collect two ransoms and pay out only one, we’d eat like kings for a year


    8. “There are ransoms to be had as well, for those who win their matches,” Ser Uthor said as he hollowed out his trencher, “and I have heard it rumored that some men place wagers on the tilts


    9. Butterwell has thirty dragons for the knight who comes second, that shall suffice for me…along with some goodly ransoms and the proceeds of my wagers


    10. And—and ransoms for rich nobles!”

    11. ’ That’s how life was, full of little tributes and ransoms and blackmails


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