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 Jackson, Emilie

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

"What luck!" cried Elodie, when she heard the result of the perquisition.

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John

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