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Definition of Extorts
1. extort [v] - See also: extort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extorts
Literary usage of Extorts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese: A General Description of the Empire of China and Its Inhabitants. by John Francis Davis (1840)
"... Canton—A. Criminal strangled before Factories—Commissioner Lin imprisons all
Europeans—extorts 20283 Chests of Opium— English expelled from Macao—Defeat ..."
2. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell (1860)
"... at Fredericksburg—Governor and Council— Hanover Volunteers and Henry—He extorts
compensation for Powder—Dunmore's Proclamation—Henry's popularity. ..."
3. Essays by the Late Mark Pattison: Sometime Rector of Lincoln College by Mark Pattison (1889)
"Will it be believed that Mr. Elwin extorts from this line an intention of an
infidel to degrade and ridicule religious aspirations? ..."
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