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Updated: June 4, 2025
Culprits were loaded into auto trucks at night, taken to the county line, made to kiss the flag, sing the national anthem, run the gauntlet between rows of vigilantes provided with cudgels and, after thus proving their patriotism under duress, were told never to return.
Will you sign it?" Wade started in spite of himself. This idea was so preposterous that it had never occurred to him as the real motive for his capture. He could scarcely believe that so good a lawyer as Senator Rexhill could be blind to the fact that such a paper, secured under duress, would have no validity under the law. He looked up at the agent in amazement.
With wild dread spurring him on, the father was gone to the rescue of his children, leaving old Plummer and his faithful sergeant shocked and nerveless at the ranch. And now, with such confirmation of the truth of the story of an Apache raid, the paymaster thought it only right to release Moreno from the duress in which Sergeant Feeny had placed him. When so old an inhabitant of Arizona as Mr.
Maude had enclosed it without comment. This letter had not been written under duress, as most of his were. Matthew's letters he wrote faithfully once a week I kept in a little pile by themselves and sometimes reread them. I wondered whether it were because of the fact that I was his father though a most inadequate one that I thought them somewhat unusual.
While its owners or their agents hesitated, Captain Elliot, the British Superintendent of Trade, came up from Macao, and demanded to share the duress of his nationals. He then called on them to deliver up the drug to him to be used in the service of the Queen for the ransom of the lives of her subjects, assuring them that they would be reimbursed from the public treasury.
It is possible that under some sort of duress although there is no evidence of this she had deliberately concocted a story to fit those of Elizabeth Francis and Agnes Brown, and that her daughter, hearing her mother's narrative in court a very possible thing in that day had fitted hers into it. It is conceivable too that Mother Waterhouse had yielded merely to the wish to amaze her listeners.
"Sir," said Sir Percivale, "ye be welcome." "God keep you," said the good man, "of whence be ye?" Here I am in great duress, and never likely to escape out of this wilderness." "Doubt not," said the good man, "if ye be so true a knight as the order of chivalry requireth, and of heart as ye ought to be, ye need not fear that any enemy shall slay you." "What are ye?" said Sir Percivale.
For this bill is the work of men who are Reformers from conscientious conviction, of men, some of whom were Reformers when Reformer was a name of reproach, of men, all of whom were Reformers before the nation had begun to demand Reform in imperative and menacing tones. But you are notoriously Reformers merely from fear. You are Reformers under duress.
"At Edouard Manning's, at once, as soon as we get in?" "It is duress! I am in the power of a ruffian band! Is it fair? Are you sure I know my mind?" "I am sure only that I know my own! Tell me, what was in that note I carried, addressed to yon varlet Davidson?" "Sealed orders!" "And how does that affect me, Helena.
By special enactment of Massachusetts no one could be held in bondage thus unless perfectly willing, and certain citizens of Holden, knowing that the treatment which the girl received could not be borne except under duress, secured her person, and bringing her to the Heart of the Commonwealth, made her "Free indeed."
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