It is necessary to remember, when thinking of the barbarisms which war brought in its train, not a hundred years ago, that what Newman calls, very justly, "the atrocious system" of paying our soldiers and sailors _head-money_ for the numbers killed by them, was only done away with about sixty years ago. ❋ Giberne Sieveking (N/A)
Sir James, however, was soon after deprived of the governorship of Labuan, and the head-money was abolished. ❋ Various (N/A)
"This is the first instance in Roman history of head-money being offered and paid, but it was not the last" (Long). ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)
You're hiding, and you're wanted, "-- he dropped his voice to a whisper, --" the tongs would pay head-money for you. ❋ Various (N/A)
The "head-money" once paid, no body, -- civil, military, foreign, or Spanish -- dared interfere with them. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
Hume and other members, especially as to the "head-money" received. ❋ Various (N/A)
The cut-worm is here correctly defined as the enemy, while the excise claimed by the birds is head-money for his extirpation. ❋ Various (N/A)
At the proper time I sent for the black prince _to assist me in shipping the slaves_, and to receive the head-money which was his export duty on my cargo. ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
So large was the number of natives, pirates and others, slain in these expeditions, that the "head-money" awarded by the British government to those who had taken part in them amounted to no less than ❋ Various (N/A)
Second mate and boatswain's head-money, at $2 each a head, 873 00 ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
We expected good service and help in recruiting from him, and promised him ample head-money. ❋ Felix Speiser (1914)
And if half the head-money and the crew's pay were laid down in advance? ❋ Unknown (1912)
There was head-money offered for all bears, foxes, seals, musk-oxen, and such like that were shot and gathered. ❋ Hetty Sibyl Browne (1907)
Moreover, it rankles in the Houseman's breast that no Stockader pays a farthing of head-money to the treasure-chest of the Doomsmen. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)
You mustn't take head-money from a Line regiment in an Area unless it says that it'll play you; but, after a week or two, those clever Linesmen always think they see a chance of making a pot, and send in their compliments to the nearest I.G. Then the fun begins. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
_He_ was being fed and clothed for nothing, besides having a chance of making head-money, and his strike-pay was going clear to his wife and family. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
They can 'heef' there (and gamble on head-money) as long as their finances run to it; or they can apply to do sea-time in the ships. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"But isn't there a lot of unfairness in this head-money system?" ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Our A.C. came, saw our dispositions, and said it was a sanguinary massacre for the Line, and that we were entitled to our full pound of flesh -- head-money for one whole regiment, with equipment, four company-guns, and all kit! ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
The line-of-battle ships themselves, tacking on and off outside Brest, could earn nothing save honour; but the frigates in attendance made prizes of many coasters, and these, as is the rule of the service, were counted as belonging to the fleet, and their produce divided into head-money. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1896)