Ransom Literary Devices

Heaven help the wolves.

It ain't human for anybody to give up $2000.00 for that forty pound chunk of wildcat.

There was a town as flat as a flannel cake and called Summit.

I showed him the road home and kicked him about eight feet closer at one kick.

It has not been discovered that the wolves have borne away the tender lambkin from the fold.

I expected to see the yeomanry of the village but what I saw was a peaceful landscape.

I was up that tree as well hidden as a tree toad waiting for the messenger to arrive.

He started a howl like a calliope and fastened himself as tight as a leech.

I never lost my nerve yet till we kidnapped that two-legged skyrocket of a kid.

It looked good but wait till I tell you.

I've never had such fun in all my life.

Bill begged me tearfully to make the ransom fifteen hundred instead of two thousand.

That boy seems to be having the time of his life.

I was rode the ninety miles to the stockade not barring an inch.

I went out and shook him till his freckles rattled.