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:

    “The reivers they stole Fair Annie,
    As she walked by the sea;
    But a noble knight was her ransom soon,
    Wi’ gowd and white monie.”
    —Unknown. Fair Annie (l. 1–4)

    “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 even within his tent she accomplished his derision;
    She loosed one veil and another, standing unafraid;
    And he perished.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)