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Updated: June 12, 2025
Gray and empty had been Cally's days since a New Year's moment in the library.... "But you'll not find any servants up here, my dear! unless you expect to throw bags over their heads and kidnap them?" "I'd like to," laughed Hen, friendly elbows on the car door. "And then give them the bastinado every hour on the hour.
"He is jealous that good Marc Scott! He told you I wanted to kidnap you like Villa, eh? Does he think a Spanish gentleman so unattractive that he has to kidnap a young lady in order to make love to her?" "I don't know what he thinks and I don't care," said Polly, angrily. "And I wouldn't have come here if I had thought you were going to be foolish. I wanted to show you that I wasn't ungrateful "
Less than forty years ago, Englishmen might still by law hold human beings in bondage as saleable property: within the present century they might kidnap them and carry them off, and work them literally to death.
Nearly two years later, in August, 1828, three men were tried for conspiracy to kidnap and carry away Morgan. At that time it was believed by many that Morgan was either simply detained abroad or in hiding, although it was strenuously insisted by others that he had been killed.
For if you don't, you're liable to be skinned alive." "If I decide upon North Platte I certainly will take advantage of your kindness," I evaded. Forsooth, she had a mind to kidnap me! "Now you're talkin' sensible," she approved. "My sakes alive! Benton!" And she sniffed. "Why, in Benton they'll snatch you bald-headed 'fore you've been there an hour." She composed herself for another nap.
Herbert, who was not very much prepossessed by Abner's appearance, thought it very doubtful whether any one would ever attempt to kidnap him. "What's he goin' to do with you?" continued Abner. "I don't know. I expect he'll make papa pay a good sum to get me back." "Humph!" remarked Abner, surveying with some contempt the small proportions of the boy before him. "You ain't much good.
It is doubtless Byzantine, but where did its maker live; in Byzantium or here, in Venice? We used to kidnap Oriental artists in the good old days when art was a religion. This cup was made by one whom God befriended; by a brain steeped in the love of the beautiful; by a hand so cunning that when it died art languished; by a power so compelling that the treasuries of the world were opened to it.
"Just so how are you to know?" "I believe that something of this sort has been done in the States." "I thought that there they were content to kidnap them after they were dead. I was not aware that they had, as yet, got quite so far as the living." "I believe that I have heard of something just like this." "Possibly; they are giants over there."
"Because if you would know the truth he set his dead cousin to kidnap me, and you thwarted him," she answered, looking straight before her. Aziel made no reply, for at that moment Sakon turned to speak with him, and his face was anxious. "I crave your pardon, Prince," he said, drawing him aside, "that you should have met with such insults at my board.
It is difficult to see how any of them could have acted otherwise. Lastly, it has been asserted that Sir Richard Burton "loathed" the Roman Catholic Church; and though he was indifferent to most religions, he entertained a "positive aversion" to this one, and therefore to "kidnap" him on his death-bed was peculiarly cruel.
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