One day, we set upon a caravan, but they put us to flight and wounded some of us and took the lad and Ganged their gait.
"Supplemental Nights, Volume 1"
Richard F. Burton
The bravest of us to-day, if he found himself press-Ganged on board a balloon and embarked upon a journey, the object of which was to land upon Mars or the moon, might find it difficult to preserve his composure on losing sight of the earth; and the parallel is not too extreme to indicate the light in which their present enterprise must have appeared to many of the Admiral's crew.
"Christopher Columbus, Complete"
Filson Young
The Liberty Square ad-hocs who were working on the Mansion had been railroaded into approving a rehab, press-Ganged into working on it, and were now forced to endure the company of these grandstanding megafans.
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom"
Cory Doctorow