perquisition
Example Sentences
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When the Commissaries, wearing tricolour ribands at their necks, arrived to carry out their perquisition, they found scarcely anything but such trifles as it had been deemed judicious to let them discover.
From The Gods are Athirst by Emilie Jackson
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 William Dean Howells
"Colbert, did you make a perquisition on the house of M. Fouquet?"
From The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas père
Before daybreak the police had made a domiciliary perquisition in the apartment, carried off his papers and sealed up his rooms.
From The Eternal City by Sir Hall Caine
The word "perquisition" was hovering over our heads.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
