1 From your master," said he, "I will accept neither arms nor ransom.
2 Tell down thy ransom, I say, and rejoice that at such rate thou canst redeem thee from a dungeon, the secrets of which few have returned to tell.
3 If thou meanest yonder Saxon churls," said Front-de-Boeuf, "their ransom will depend upon other terms than thine.
4 It is a trifling ransom, Saxon, and thou wilt owe gratitude to the moderation which accepts of it in exchange of your persons.
5 "Neither does the ransom include the Lady Rowena," said De Bracy.
6 I claim," said Athelstane, "an honourable imprisonment, with due care of my board and of my couch, as becomes my rank, and as is due to one who is in treaty for ransom.
7 I pray thee be more conformable in this matter of my ransom.
8 That will be but blind trust," said the Outlaw; "we will retain thee, Prior, and send them to fetch thy ransom.
9 It remained that the Jew should produce some security for the ransom which he was to pay on the Prior's account, as well as upon his own.
10 "This must be our Friar Tuck, for a count's ransom," said Richard, looking at Ivanhoe.
11 The other most obvious explanation is that the child has been kidnapped for the purpose of levying ransom.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 12 From the police point of view he will have kidnapped the boy for the purpose of ransom.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 13 Carlini besought his chief to make an exception in Rita's favor, as her father was rich, and could pay a large ransom.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 14 Carlini flew joyfully to Rita, telling her she was saved, and bidding her write to her father, to inform him what had occurred, and that her ransom was fixed at three hundred piastres.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits. 15 It was Rita's father, who brought his daughter's ransom in person.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 33. Roman Bandits.