perquisition

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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

"Colbert, did you make a perquisition on the house of M. Fouquet?"

From The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas père, Alexandre

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

From Rome in 1860 by Dicey, Edward

He ordered a perquisition of every room and every corner of the hotel, Madame the proprietress loudly lamenting that she and her respectable house would henceforth be disgraced for ever.

From Castles in the Air by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Which has occasioned Collins and myself to institute a perquisition whether the French ever have shown any kind of idea of the supernatural; and to decide this rather in the negative.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John