"Hostage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... life and makes him swear friendship to the Vandals, III. iv. 9, 10; secures possession of Libya, III. xxi. 16, xxii. 4; secures his power by making a compact with Valentinian and giving his son as a hostage, III. iv. 12-14, xvi. 13; receives his son back, III. iv. 14; receives ambassadors from the Vandals who had not emigrated, III. xxii. 7; at first hears them with favour, but later refuses their petition, III. ...
— History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) - The Vandalic War • Procopius
... to be surprised if the King resents the conduct of your brother and husband, and as he knows the love and friendship that exist between you three, should suppose that you were privy to their design of leaving the Court. He has, for this reason, resolved to detain you in it, as a hostage for them. He is sensible how much you are beloved by your husband, and thinks he can hold no pledge that is more dear to him. On this account it is that the King has ordered his guards to be placed, with directions not to suffer you to leave your apartments. He has ...
— Memoirs And Historical Chronicles Of The Courts Of Europe - Marguerite de Valois, Madame de Pompadour, and Catherine de Medici • Various
... snatches a child from the arms of one of them, holding it as a hostage. To his amazement it turns out to be a wine-stoup. He vainly tries some of the dodges practised in Euripides' plays to bring him to the rescue. The Chorus meantime expose the folly of calling ...
— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb
... doubtless succeed. He is handsome and intellectual, they say. What a blunder! I myself merit disgrace. To leave that fox of a Jesuit with the King, without having given him my secret instructions, without a hostage, a pledge, or his fidelity to my orders! What neglect! Joseph, take a pen, and write what I shall dictate for the other confessor, whom we will choose better. I think ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... first time.[138] VII. When they are summoned into the imperial presence they all profess to know nothing about the subject of her inquiry, they had never heard of such a thing before! She threatens. Then they select Judas as a wise man who knows more than the rest, and they leave him as a hostage. VIII. The queen will know where the Rood is. Judas pleads that it all happened so long ago that he knows nothing about it. She says it was not so long ago as the Trojan war, and yet people know about that. When he persists, she orders ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle
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