Ransomed Sentence Examples

Shortly afterwards he was ransomed, and returned to Provence in 1250.

None devoted shall be ransomed, he shall surely be put to death."

His head was cut off, exhibited in the Turkish camp and then sent to Constantinople as a present to the sultan, from whom it was subsequently ransomed at a great price.

In the Toth century IIushiel, one of four prisoners, perhaps from Babylonia, though that is doubtful, was ransomed and settled at Kairawan, where he acquired great reputation as a Talmudist.

On being ransomed he went to Constantinople,where was held the court of his cousin,the emperor Manuel, with whom he was a great favourite.

If ransomed, the victim became by Athenian law the slave of his redeemer till he paid in money or labour the price which had been given for him.

The former were set at liberty or ransomed, and among the latter was the last descendant of the reigning dynasty.

In 1752 he was taken prisoner by the Indians but was ransomed by Massachusetts.

They were ransomed after five years and the place fortified.

In an action with a galley of the Knights of Saint John, then established at Rhodes, Elias was killed and Arouj taken prisoner; the latter was ransomed by a Turkish pasha and returned to the sea.

He had been taken prisoner by Dragut, who made him row for a year as a galley slave till ransomed.

On the 15th of April 1648 he was one of the many noble Polish prisoners who fell into the ' hands of Chmielnicki at the battle of "Yellow Waters," and was sent in chains to the Crimea, whence he was ransomed in 1649.

Du Guesclin was ransomed for ioo,000 crowns, and was charged to lead them out of France.

Two years later he was captured and imprisoned at Gutenstein, but was ransomed by his Taborite friends.

Ransomed in 1103 by the generosity of an Armenian prince, Bohemund made it his first object to attack the neighbouring Mahommedan powers in order to gain supplies.

During the first crusade the reigning prince was Kumushtegin (Ahmed Ghazi), who defeated the Franks and took prisoner the prince of Antioch, Bohemund, afterwards ransomed.

He was soon ransomed, and during the next two years was again in command on the Norman frontier.

As might happen to any earth-lord, Indra is actually defeated in battle by the son of the demon-king of Lanka (Ceylon), and kept there a prisoner till ransomed by Brahma and the gods conferring immortality on his conqueror.

He was at once ransomed by his brother-in-law, the emperor Manuel, and went to Constantinople, whence he returned with a Greek patriarch.

But on the other hand we find the Chinese saint, on the approach of death, causing one of his disciples to frame a catalogue of his good works, of the books that he had translated or caused to be transcribed, of the sacred pictures executed at his cost, of the alms that he had given, of the living creatures that he had ransomed from death.

After spending four years with his new captors, he was ransomed by a fellow-countryman, a merchant of the tribe of Issachar.

Diogenes Laertius says that Anniceris ransomed Plato from Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, for twenty minas.

He lost the two days' battle of Kossovo (October 17th-19th) owing to the treachery of Dan, hospodar of Wallachia, and of his old enemy Brankovic, who imprisoned him for a time in the dungeons of the fortress of Semendria; but he was ransomed by the Magyars, and, after composing his differences with his powerful and jealous enemies in Hungary, led a punitive expedition against the Servian prince, who was compelled to accept most humiliating terms of peace.

Thou shalt bring the ransomed with thee; They with songs shall come, All the golden sheaves of harvest Gathered Home.

It was built (consecration, 1248) by St Louis of France to contain the relic of the Crown of Thorns, ransomed by the king from the Venetians, who held it in pawn from the Latin emperor of the East, John of Brienne, lately dead.