The magistrates, however, interfered, and endeavored to extort a confession from Goethe.

Then you mean to try and extort a confession from Laleli herself?

They endeavoured, by every possible means, to extort a confession from him, but without success.

Bending over the other, he was trying with all his might to extort a confession from him.

Men are no longer, in any quarter of the world, racked or pressed under planks to extort a confession of diabolical alliance.

I have surprised your sentiments, and have extorted a confession from you.

He had him cross-examined, and finally extorted a confession.

She seemed like some marble statue, which one might hack and hew in twain, without extorting a confession.