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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

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

"Nay, but they will hold thee to ransom, and detain thee till it is brought: I heard them amerce thee at a thousand marks."

From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

But ile amerce you with so strong a fine, That you shall all repent the losse of mine.

From Shakespeare in the Theatre by William Poel

Worst of all was Davie Graham, for having his hands upon the fines, he desired above all to amerce Gilbert Wilson, the tenant of Glen Vernock in the parish of Peninghame.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The person in whose house the conventicle met, was amerced a like sum with the preacher.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume

He was prosecuted, convicted, amerced in a fine, and imprisoned three months in York Castle.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

On October 4, 1605, the Commissioners of the Sewers amerced him for the Rose, but return was made that it was then "out of his hands."

From Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration by Joseph Quincy Adams

If he attempts to infringe the law, the neighbors take up his case; he is amerced, often to the extent of several sheep or cows, and these become the absolute property of the wife.

From Oriental Women by Edward Bagby Pollard

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

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