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:

    “And a wandering beauty is a blade out of its scabbard.
    You know how dangerous, gentlemen of threescore?
    May you know it yet ten more.”
    —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)

    “Alimony—The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)