exact tribute
Example Sentences
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Huk agents exact tribute and taxes from thousands of Filipinos.
From Time Magazine Archive
For example, the Spanish conquistadores wished to exact tribute from Mexico’s defeated native populations, so they were very interested in the Aztec Empire’s tribute lists.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
These two men informed us there were five more chiefs, living but two hours from each other, who would exact tribute, or black-mail, like those we had seen.
From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
If he should at any time send an officer and troops, to exact tribute money, they would simply retire into the interior, where they could defy pursuit.
From At the Point of the Bayonet A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
But his patience, at last, gave out, for he was told after he had settled the last tribute that there were five more chiefs ahead who would exact tribute.
From Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa A Graphic Account of the Several Expeditions of Henry M. Stanley into the Heart of the Dark Continent by Joel Tyler Headley
