perquisition

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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 Caine, Hall, Sir

But Osmond satisfied himself, by a perquisition of every house in those sanctuaries, that he was not there.

From The Star-Chamber, Volume 2 An Historical Romance by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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

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