No minutes in his life had hitherto Extorted from him such intensity of anguish.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The preference appears to have been Extorted from Marion.
"A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion"
William Dobein James
Mr. Nugent secured it at last, and brandishing it fiercely Extorted feminine screams from Miss Kybird by threatening her with it.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs