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Patriot Municipality despatches official Narrative and tidings to Paris; orders numerous or innumerable arrestments for inquest and perquisition.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
What with the arrestments on this night of the Twenty-ninth, what with those that have gone on more or less, day and night, ever since the Tenth, one may fancy what the Prisons now were.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Whose example, may it not deter other rash Justices; and so this word of the Thirty arrestments continue a word merely?
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Rabaut and they therefore sit, intent; examining witnesses; launching arrestments; looking out into a waste dim sea of troubles.—the womb of Formula, or perhaps her grave!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas