Example Sentences

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Free again on a "ticket-of-leave" for good behavior, he sets out to track the crook and settle accounts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last July the Ministry of Justice awarded Red Ryan a "ticket-of-leave," a privileged form of parole in which a convict reports only occasionally to the authorities.

From Time Magazine Archive

The ticket-of-leave man was accused of having stolen the watch, thrown away the works and melted down the case.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

I have elsewhere spoken of the all-pervading police of the Holy Office and of the watchfulness exercised over the converts whose liberation at best was but a ticket-of-leave.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

When the licence system was first initiated the police were instructed by the Home Office not to interfere with the ticket-of-leave men, and, not strangely, these men found opportunities of crime made easy for them.

From Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police by Dilnot, George