Ransom

Ransom

Ransom is the practice of holding a prisoner or item to extort money or property to secure their release, or it can refer to the sum of money involved.

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Famous quotes containing the word ransom:

    “—I am a lady young in beauty waiting
    Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “But this was the old tree’s late branch wrenched away,
    Grieving the sapless limbs, the shorn and shaken.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “Full of her long white arms and milky skin
    He had a thousand times remembered sin.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)