perquisition

Example Sentences

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What more likely than that he should think of making a perquisition upon Councillor Crosbie, who flaunted his opinions before the world in the outward form of a green tabinet neckerchief?

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

When the Major, in a sudden perquisition, discovered a small sum amassed with great trouble, he confiscated it.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

I carried out a perquisition in his rooms.

From The Aspirations of Jean Servien by France, Anatole

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

The result of a military perquisition was to establish convincing proof of the charge of treason. 

From Rome in 1860 by Dicey, Edward