perquisition

Example Sentences

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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

Here is a perquisition somewhat more startling than that of Xerxes, putting a prize upon a new pleasure.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

It was suggested at the Préfecture to-day that it would be well to make a perquisition, not only in Mrs. Pargeter's own house, but also in the houses of some of her intimates.

From The Uttermost Farthing by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

"Colbert, have you made a perquisition at the house of M. Fouquet?"

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre

At the head of the gangway he encountered Captain Jenness and Mr. Watterson, who had completed the perquisition they had remained to make in his state-room.

From The Lady of the Aroostook by Howells, William Dean