But these are not the only means which the Janissaries employ to extort money.
I suppose at bottom it is an attempt to extort money, though one does not see how the writer intends to go about it.
Either he has forged letters in his possession, for which he hopes to extort money, or he has no letters of any kind, and his only intention in writing in this manner on an envelope is in some way to cause you pain and annoyance.
Of course, there are people who are just as bitter over an imaginary injury as over a real one, but I am more inclined to think that this letter is the result of malice than an attempt to extort money.
Such persons think that the wretch will not dare to charge them with the offence, or endeavor to extort money a second time, and do not regret the first outlay.
He threatened to have the man arrested for endeavoring to extort money in such a manner, but the fellow reminded him that such a course would only make the scandal greater.
The law makes it a crime for any one to endeavor to extort money in this way, and no one so threatened should hesitate for one moment in applying to the police.
She treated the whole affair as a malicious attempt to extort money, to which her husband should not yield for a moment.
If it was an attempt to extort money, a bold front and a threat set in action would have probably been enough to make them retreat.
I believe there are wretches who make a profession of trying to extort money by getting hold of some forgotten trifle, and magnifying it until they manage to frighten weak-spirited persons.
Schmitz and Ruef, through such threat, extort money, and by means of the fear raised thereby?
I know very few things so hard to deal with as menaces to extort money.
Not alone that, but he does n't attach any importance to the claim; he says it's all got up to extort money.
She now spent much time in going over the correspondence, weighing each word in the attempt to establish its exact value if regarded from the point of view of a systematic attempt to extort money.
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