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But perhaps I could pay you a mina of silver: in that sum, then, I amerce myself.

From Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Henry Cary

In your greatness ye shall change it; with your justice ye shall purify it; with your clemencies ye should it chasten and amerce.

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford Madox Ford

But Plato here, O Athenians! and Crito Critobulus, and Apollodorus bid me amerce myself in thirty minæ, and they offer to be sureties.

From Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Henry Cary

One came whose art men’s dread of are repressed: Mangled and writhing limb he lulled to rest, And stingless left the old Semitic curse; Him, too, for these blest gifts did Zeus amerce?

From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Henry Laing Gordon

Searching those edges of the universe,   We leave the central fields a fallow part; To feed the eye more precious things amerce,       And starve the darkened heart.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow

"Come, master-surgeon, mend it for me; Though I would it were changed for the nails that amerced The dying thief upon Calvary."

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

Such grace were hardUnless, death past, their souls to birds might change,And in the darksomest grove of ParadiseLament, amerced, their error, yet rejoiceIn souls that walked obedient!” 

From The Legends of Saint Patrick by Aubrey De Vere

Disputed prisoners were to be placed in the hands of the warden, and the party found ultimately wrong to be amerced in a fine of ten pounds.

From Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland

It occurs, as every one knows, in the clause of the Great Charter, which says that the villain who falls into the king's mercy is to be amerced 'saving his waynage.'

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

Therefore as to the present repair of the bridge the Abbot is acquitted, but he is to be amerced because he did not repair it before.

From The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home

One of their measures has been questioned as unwise and impolitic—that, namely, for amercing and confiscating the estates of certain of the loyalists, and for banishing the most obnoxious among them.

From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms