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  • "Kidnaping," every other man said, and believed, and the detectives were on a still hunt again for the mysterious electric cab of election eve.

    A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day Helen M. Winslow

  • “No. Kidnaping for ransom is an ancient Chinese art.”

    Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

  • Kidnaping is not easy now as parents can telegraph to the king, or the prime minister, or even to Europe and cause much trouble.

    Modern Persia Mooshie G. Daniel

  • Kidnaping is a crime whose perpetrators can hope for no atom of sympathy from anybody.

    Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • Kidnaping or "spiriting" achieved the perfection of a fine art under the second Charles.

    Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Samuel Peter Orth 1897

  • "Kidnaping a girl of that age is a different thing from kidnaping a child."

    The Master Detective Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles Percy James Brebner 1893

  • Kidnaping has been an ever-enduring scenario not only in Niger Delta but other parts of Nigeria.

    Vanguard News 2009

  • Kidnaping certainly is very, very terrible, Jin-qua thought in agreement, for he was in constant fear that he or his children or his children’s children would be kidnaped and held for ransom.

    Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

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