I won't marry your daughter, I won't be blackmailed, and I won't be bullied. We're in this together, sink or swim. If you pull me down you've got to come too. I'll admit that if Monty were to present himself in London to-morrow and demand his full pound of flesh we should be ruined, but he isn't going to do it. By your own showing there is no immediate risk, and you've got to leave the thing in my hands to do what I think best. If you play any hanky-panky tricks - look here, Da Souza, I'll kill you, sure! Do you hear? I could do it, and no one would be the wiser so far as I was concerned.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
"It can't be that you blackmail the president," said the consul, "because I understand he boasts he has committed all the known crimes.英文原著 · 《Billy and the Big Stick》
"I thought I could do it, but I couldn't," he muttered to himself after a time. "A gentleman can't blackmail the man that he drinks with."英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
Blackmail isn't a pretty word, but it's the next station on the road I'm travelling."英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
"An evidence," said Blythe, flippantly, "that I was still virtuous-- though under heavy pressure. The wages of sin should be something higher than a peso worth forty-eight cents. Let's talk business. I am the villain in the third act; and I must have my merited, if only temporary, triumph. I saw you collar the late president's valiseful of boodle. Oh, I know it's blackmail; but I'm liberal about the price. I know I'm a cheap villain--one of the regular sawmill-drama kind--but you're one of my particular friends, and I don't want to stick you hard."英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
"I couldn't do it," he explained, feverishly, to the waving banana fronds. "I wanted to, but I couldn't. A gentleman can't drink with the man that he blackmails."英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》