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More "Blackmailer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the harbor, now," said Kennedy. "Mr. Verplanck tells me he has destroyed his. The past is blotted out as far as that is concerned. The future is—for you three to determine. For the present I've caught a yeggman and a blackmailer." ...
— The War Terror • Arthur B. Reeve
... already one crime upon his conscience—who might, she feared, risk another, in order to be rid of a dangerous enemy. Woman-like, she thought the scheme a dishonourable one, for the law, she knew, is severe on the blackmailer. ...
— The Old Man in the Corner • Baroness Orczy
... her head drooping, as if the blackmailer's words had taken away the last shoring prop of her ambition and hope. After a while she raised her ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden
... none to cover," retorted Brenchfield. "I don't know you personally; never did know you;—don't want to know you. I do know you by reputation for an escaped jailbird and a would-be blackmailer, who will be back where he belongs before he is much older. ...
— The Spoilers of the Valley • Robert Watson
... fifth day there appeared a much more formidable person than the others, and also a much more criminous. This was the "King of the Desert"—bandit and blackmailer of caravans. Being apparently a bandit of letters, he reflected that, though lizards, being, after all, miniature dragons, were immemorial guardians of treasure, they could not have any right in it, but were most inconveniently ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury
... venereal diseases. Parents should see to it that the family physician is prescribing any strange medicine that may appear in the boy's room, and not some unknown individual who may be an impostor and a blackmailer. ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague
... the baronet, "which unswervingly follows my present conception. Long experience of this wicked world—by which I mean that particular kind of vulture-like humanity which preys upon better men than itself—enables me to assume that you are without question a blackmailer, a bad blackmailer, and a blackmailer of ...
— High Noon - A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn • Anonymous
... ungainliness of a toad. His head was set low between stooped shoulders, and his crafty eyes had in them a look of scheming, scheming always for his own interests. Smith knew his record as well as he knew his own: a dance-hall hanger-on in his youth, despised of men; a blackmailer; the keeper of a notorious road-house; a petty grafter in a small political office in the little cow-town. Smith understood perfectly the source of his present interest, yet it flattered him almost as much as ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
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