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n. money demanded for the return of a captured person [syn: ransom money ] payment for the release of someone the act of freeing from captivity or punishment v. exchange or buy back for money; under threat [syn: redeem ]
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Ransom was a 1973 novel by Australian author Jon Cleary , the third to feature his detective hero Scobie Malone . Cleary also wrote The Sundowners and The High Commissioner . The novel was published by Fontana Press on November 3, 1975.
Usage examples of ransom.
Henry Burrage smiled upon Ransom in a way that was meant to show he remembered having already spoken to him, while the Mississippian said to himself that there was nothing on the face of it to make it strange there should be between these fair, successful young persons some such question of love or marriage as Mrs.
Ransom remarked, in a tone in which it would have appeared to Henry Burrage, had he heard these words, that presumption was pushed to fatuity.
Basil Ransom had given no sign of life for ages, and Henry Burrage had certainly got his quietus before they went to Europe.
Mutual necessity could sometimes extort the exchange or ransom of prisoners: but in the national and religious conflict of the two empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.
Second, because we all know that this kidnapping had little or nothing to do with a ransom, and third, because McCandless and Mandell are not strangers like McCandless wants me to think.
Watching the dust accumulate against the walls, Ransom could almost see it several years ahead, reverting to a primitive tumulus, a mastaba of white ash in which some forgotten nomad had once made his home.
She could even have decided to hit the Mellon family for a huge ransom so she could escape from her mother.
Laughing, Morena slugged Ransom half a dozen times in the face and stomach while his grinning subordinates watched.
Clairvaux the absence of these, like the putting off of mortality itself, freed the spirits of the nearly ransomed to foretaste of heaven.
Christian allies in the midst of his pious enterprise and ransomed by the sacrifice of his people.
Sardinia, where in many regions bandits took, ransomed, and released more or less as they pleased.
Many were killed and Raoul was captured, though ransomed soon afterward.
Greedy as he, they let him be ransomed for 22,000 gold francs, so that he promptly renewed his warfare.
It was not the buccaneer custom to fire cities before they had sacked them, nor is it in the least likely that Morgan would have burnt so glorious a town before he had offered it to ransom.
As far as Ransom could gather from the brief conversation in the yard, his old schoolfellow had altered very little.