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"Ransom" Quotes from Famous Books

... the General as they sallied forth, "we shall go to the Beeches, and see a view for which one might travel many days, and pay a ransom." ...

— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren

... months' constant work, the young knight's studies were abruptly stopped by the receipt of a letter from the Pasha of Syria, offering a considerable sum for the ransom of his instructor. The request was at once acceded to, as it was the policy of the knights to accept ransoms for their prisoners, both because the sums so gained were useful, and because they were themselves compelled sometimes to pay ransom ...

— A Knight of the White Cross • G.A. Henty

... I believe were sinners more Than sands upon the ocean shore, Thou hast for all a ransom paid, For all a ...

— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth

... how ardently do I desire that this season of adversity may be sanctified to me for everlasting good, and prove the means of slaying that will in me, which has too long been opposed to the will of Him who paid the ransom for my soul with nothing less than the price of his ...

— Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel • John Yeardley

... between her and the "accusing angel" of her own conscience; alone in the solitude of her spirit she must wrestle with her own sorrows; none can walk for her "the valley of the shadow of death!" When her brother shall be able to settle for her accountabilities, and "give to God a ransom for her soul," then, and not till then, may she rightly commit to him the direction ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

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