ransom
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RANSOM: "So I let the time go by, and at the end I hadn't said anything."
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM: "That was at night; but the next day she came up smiling, and said that if I didn't mind she would keep on—for amusement; she wasn't a bit discouraged."
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM, turning from the register with impressive deliberation: "Miss Reed, may I ask HOW you came to know that his name was Gummidge, or Grimmidge, or whatever I called him?"
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM: "Yes; I didn't do it by halves."
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM, when the front door had closed on her visitor, passed with a spring from the drawing-room to the narrow hall, and thence up the narrow stairs to her bedroom.
From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Wharton, Edith
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