Crossword-Solution: RANSOMING 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

CHAPTER XXXIII —-Flower of warriors, How is’t with Titus Lartius? MARCIUS.—As with a man busied about decrees, Condemning some to death and some to exile, Ransoming him or pitying, threatening the other.

THE CRUELTY OF ACHILLES, AND THE RANSOMING OF HECTOR When Achilles was asleep that night the ghost of Patroclus came, saying, "Why dost thou not burn and bury me? for the other shadows of dead men suffer me not to come near them, and lonely I wander along the dark dwelling of Hades." Then Achilles awoke, and he sent men to cut down trees, and make a huge pile of fagots and logs.

Troublesome Protestants mostly rejected the Interim; Moritz and Alcibiades, with France in the rear of them, took to arms in that way; took to ransoming fat Bishoprics ("_Verbum Diaboli Manet_," we know where!);--took to chasing Kaisers into the mountains;--and times came soon round again.

Mayer made a pretty course of it, into the Ober-Pfalz Countries; scattering the poor Execution Drill-Sergeants and incipiencies of preparation, the deliberative County Meetings, KREIS-Convents: ransoming Cities, Nurnberg for one city, whose cries went to Friedrich on the Ziscaberg, and wide over the world.

The Portuguese disguised their slave-dealing motives under the pretext of ransoming (_resgatando_) these captives; indeed, the term _ resgatar_ (to ransom) is still applied by the traders on the Upper Amazons to the very general, but illegal, practice of purchasing Indian children of the wild tribes.