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:

    “Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell?
    Or take your bodies honorless to Hell?

    In Heaven you have heard no marriage is,
    No white flesh tinder to your lecheries,”
    —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)

    “For I must have my lovely lady soon,
    I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)