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  • After the stabbing, prison officials had conducted a shakedown inspection of the jail and confiscated a small arsenal of weapons, including a homemade bomb.†   (source)
  • They evicted Jews from their apartments and moved in, confiscating their belongings.†   (source)
  • The academy's reputation as a good school would not suffer by this action of confiscation as much as that reputation would suffer from "criminal charges."†   (source)
  • Behind him, confiscated treasures are crammed to the ceiling: rolled tapestries, grandfather clocks, armoires, and giant landscape paintings crazed with cracks.†   (source)
  • There was no need to imprison them: the Arabs simply confiscated their horses.†   (source)
  • And every day we heard the drums and gongs that meant the Red Guards were ransacking the houses of class enemies to find and confiscate their hoarded possessions.†   (source)
  • Some letters—both his and hers—were confiscated for some timid expression of affection.†   (source)
  • We've had to pack them into the sugarhouses and the confiscated churches, too."†   (source)
  • A pickup game, shooting balls at a hoop, dribbling down the corridors until the peace officers confiscated your ball.†   (source)
  • District 13 confiscated my tube of skin ointment for use in the hospital, and my bow and arrows because only guards have clearance to carry weapons.†   (source)
  • 'Yeah, yeah, yeah,' muttered Holly, running her fingers over the rows of confiscated Retrieval equipment.†   (source)
  • To clothe the migrants, he circumvents Mexican Customs, which inspects cars and confiscates used clothing coming into the country, in what Padre Leo believes is an attempt to protect Mexican clothing manufacturers.†   (source)
  • Anatole's passport was confiscated at the airport.†   (source)
  • The people also confiscated his house, made his wife sweep the streets, and all his sons were sent to work outdoors in Wuhan, where it's so hot most people would rather bathe in a vat of boiling oil than go there.†   (source)
  • There are those military officers who might have considered merely capturing the dump and confiscating the explosive.†   (source)
  • The theater itself was "arrested," ordered closed, and was eventually confiscated from the Fords.†   (source)
  • At its core, it's the story of a man who goes berserk because his stolen war bride is confiscated, acted out against a background of wholesale slaughter, the whole of which is taking place because another man, Menelaus (brother of Agamemnon) has had his wife stolen by Paris, half brother of Hector.†   (source)
  • Keane and his friend, a Sergeant Rossiter, confiscated a skiff and the three of them floated in Mobile Bay.†   (source)
  • The announcement that the shop was confiscated.†   (source)
  • He would confiscate the remainder of Lavender's dope.†   (source)
  • More than $2,400 had been confiscated from him when he was processed at Camp Greyhound, and when he was released, he attempted repeatedly to recover it.†   (source)
  • Then they'll say they didn't steal it, they confiscated it.†   (source)
  • Strict regulations cover every aspect of meat production, prohibiting the inclusion of animal wastes in feed, banning the use of hormones as growth stimulants, limiting the stress that cattle endure during transport (and thereby reducing the amount of bacteria shed in their stool), and confiscating tainted meat.†   (source)
  • The second car with three teenage male suspects was apprehended and a fired weapon confiscated.†   (source)
  • I January 1944 The German newspapers are indignantly reporting the confiscation and removal of art treasures by the Americans in the south of Italy.†   (source)
  • Hey!" she protested, but the guy was twice her size and he'd already confiscated her knife and my sword.†   (source)
  • Later on, when some of the passengers divided into two opposing camps during an argument, he confiscated everyone's weapons and gave his word of honor that they would be returned at the end of the journey.†   (source)
  • Confiscate their property, take everything, turn out their families, strip them.†   (source)
  • My grandfather—I remember this—was happy to hear of Okubo Toshimichi's assassination, the man who had been responsible for the confiscation of his master's castle and the destruction of his master's army.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of the month, the neighborhood association began confiscating many of our ceramics and scrolls to sell them on what we called the "gray market," which was different from the black market.†   (source)
  • They were confiscating the two vehicles registered under a prisoner's name.†   (source)
  • "And you need to confiscate this kid's cell."†   (source)
  • Occasionally they confiscated medical equipment that he was bringing to the clinic.†   (source)
  • He has to believe that the police would never think of confiscating his computer.†   (source)
  • And his boats and nets were gone, he knew—confiscated or stolen.†   (source)
  • They confiscate slippers too if they find them in daytime.†   (source)
  • If I were Patch, and I wanted to hide something highly secretive, I wouldn't hide it in my room, my school locker, or even my backpack, all of which could be confiscated or searched without warning.†   (source)
  • The weapon's components, a piece of wood and a length of hard wire, were originally part of a toilet brush he'd confiscated, dismantled and hidden under his mattress.†   (source)
  • He'd looked at the yearbook confiscated from Peter's room-the circles around certain kids who became victims, and others who did not.†   (source)
  • We do not want them confiscated.†   (source)
  • El policia confiscated yours.†   (source)
  • The police searched the entire farm and confiscated hundreds of documents and papers, though they found no weapons.†   (source)
  • I don't want to have to tell you this, but I'm sorry, we're going to have to confiscate this rifle.†   (source)
  • Increased taxes, emptied garrisons, horses and oxen confiscated throughout the Empire ….†   (source)
  • To took through the inventory of Airwalk ads in that critical period, in fact, is to get a complete guide to the fads and infatuations and interests of the youth culture of the era: there are 30-second spoofs of kung fu movies, a TV spot on Beat poetry, an X-files-style commercial in which a young man driving into Roswell, New Mexico, has his Airwalks confiscated by aliens.†   (source)
  • It was a federal holding prison built inside Dutch Schultz's old liquor warehouse, which had been confiscated during Prohibition after Dutch was arrested.†   (source)
  • I never quite got the story straight, but it seemed that the guards frequently confiscated her head scarves.†   (source)
  • If we find them, we'll confiscate them.†   (source)
  • When the UN confiscated weapons from the militia, the Italian military gave them to Giancarlo, who is suspected to have sold them to Aidid.†   (source)
  • And have her confiscate it?†   (source)
  • Cole and her folks had to have confiscated the animal.†   (source)
  • He went to look, but the guards had confiscated them.†   (source)
  • Filling them up again was not a simple matter of confiscation.†   (source)
  • He'd shown it to five or six boys before word got back to his brother, who'd confiscated it for his own purposes.†   (source)
  • Our flat was confiscated.†   (source)
  • But now the North Vancouver Board of Trade has gone on record to demand that all our autos be confiscated.†   (source)
  • Miguel inspected the building and confiscated all the food supplies in the cafeteria.†   (source)
  • Milo was dumbfounded when he stepped down to the ground and found a contingent of armed M.P.s waiting to imprison the German pilots and confiscate their planes.†   (source)
  • When he left, the council ordered all of his possessions confiscated and burned.†   (source)
  • The whole place had more the flavor of a flat confiscated from a poor imprisoned intellectual.†   (source)
  • My Octagon card, confiscated in front of that whole crowd.†   (source)
  • The upper and middle classes and even the working poor had their houses confiscated and land taken away.†   (source)
  • With any luck, the man would report the jacket and security would confiscate it.†   (source)
  • "If God hadn't intended for us to play games, he wouldn't have made them so fun," interrupted the priest with a smile as he brandished one of the confiscated fronds.†   (source)
  • They confiscated my entire harvest.†   (source)
  • Washington would later recall emphasizing that there be no "ceremony" in carrying out the order—meaning that whatever boats would serve should be confiscated on the spot.†   (source)
  • A weapon registered to you was confiscated at a homicide.†   (source)
  • I later learned that the bad guys were confiscating them and selling them.†   (source)
  • They confiscated my lovely house in Geneva!†   (source)
  • She simultaneously ordered confiscated the property of the next ten Attolian caravans through the pass.†   (source)
  • Richter was off again, confiscating a bottle of champagne from some scowling Fourth Years.†   (source)
  • Even though I had confiscated it for forever only two months ago, after he picked the lock on my closet at home.†   (source)
  • A year ago, he thought, they would have shot him; two years ago, they would have confiscated his property; generations ago, men of their kind had been able to afford the luxury of murder and expropriation, the safety of pretending to themselves and their victims that material loot was their only objective.†   (source)
  • You saw it confiscated last month from those egungun men who were creating trouble in town.†   (source)
  • At first the Nazis took little except food, but with the Resistance, they confiscated property, possessions.†   (source)
  • She didn't know yet whether Mr. Partridge was the type to confiscate a phone.†   (source)
  • But soldiers from other states were not far behind—especially states that experienced northern occupation and confiscation of property.†   (source)
  • We lock them into a flat Tupperware container he's confiscated from his house and leave it sitting out in plain view for the next person who comes here.†   (source)
  • Blackstone is worth quoting: "To bereave a man of life, (says he) or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government."†   (source)
  • No confiscation of their horses or personal effects.†   (source)
  • The oligarchy confiscated the estates of Athenian aristocrats, banished 5,000 women, children, and slaves, and summarily executed about 1,500 of Athen's most prominent democrats.†   (source)
  • Jefferson was one of our first presidents, so you'd think the first thing he'd want to do is confiscate everyone's guns.†   (source)
  • They wanted to confiscate, so I demanded they call Chief Engineer.†   (source)
  • Somehow I had confiscated the "Fifty Favorites," a collection that included brief but famous fragments of the great composers.†   (source)
  • That day the tenants were at their general meeting, in which a woman delegate from the borough council participated, when a military commission suddenly turned up to check arms licenses and to confiscate unlicensed weapons.†   (source)
  • As our relations with Great Britain worsened, our ships were seized, our cargoes were confiscated, and our seamen were "impressed" by British cruisers and compelled to serve—as alleged British subjects—in the King's navy.†   (source)
  • But the authorities confiscated all of them!†   (source)
  • Confiscated from the Netherlands by the Vatican shortly after Galileo's death.†   (source)
  • Madam Pomfrey, however, felt it might not be very hygienic, and confiscated it.†   (source)
  • He probably suspected what it was, though, or he wouldn't have confiscated it.†   (source)
  • Where the police confiscated these treasures and from whom, he does not ask.†   (source)
  • If Grandpa was a landlord, they could confiscate all his things.†   (source)
  • Just in case I should go on a rampage again, Mama confiscated the old radio.†   (source)
  • The communists confiscated so much of my land, and all of my stores as well.†   (source)
  • Any Dark object would have been found, I know for a fact Crabbe had a shrunken head confiscated.†   (source)
  • Most plans and maps of the city had been confiscated by order.†   (source)
  • I happen to know that this map was confiscated by Mr. Filch many years ago.†   (source)
  • I thought you said you confiscated this tape!†   (source)
  • The mahogany furniture that had filled the place was gone, confiscated.†   (source)
  • At Tam's third, furious order to confiscate Max's weapon, Jack inched forward and reached for it.†   (source)
  • He opened his saddlebags and returned their confiscated supplies.†   (source)
  • And if she found the bird, CO Smythe would confiscate it.†   (source)
  • I haven't got enough for a search or confiscation warrant.†   (source)
  • It's a wonder Granny Logan didn't confiscate it.†   (source)
  • They too were placed in a plastic bag and added to the confiscated material.†   (source)
  • But the correctional officer who'd signed her in for visitation had confiscated the items.†   (source)
  • "That bill to confiscate the rebel property is just what we want," wrote a Rhode Island sergeant.†   (source)
  • We can probably finagle an order to confiscate the pictures of the scene.†   (source)
  • My first gun had been confiscated by the COs, like Crash's hype kit.†   (source)
  • Satisfied that he'd confiscated her basic tools, he moved toward the door.†   (source)
  • Call for a search and confiscate warrant, Peabody.†   (source)
  • "The weapons were confiscated," I said to Lieutenant Awn, still quiet.†   (source)
  • The basic story was an interview with Martina Fransson about the confiscation of anabolic steroids.†   (source)
  • I've heard legends that the Romans confiscated the writings of Archimedes, but—"†   (source)
  • He is to confiscate everything but the clothes on their backs and turn them loose.†   (source)
  • How can you possibly confiscate your own private property?†   (source)
  • In the time I was in Kerchele, they confiscated my house.†   (source)
  • "There's nothing of any interest left in there, nothing that we didn't already confiscate."†   (source)
  • All he knew was that the pasdar were confiscating the stock of the three stores.†   (source)
  • I've got orders to arrest you and confiscate that statue.†   (source)
  • Inkatha members then proceeded to occupy the abandoned shacks and confiscate all the property.†   (source)
  • He used the one on Bjurman's key ring, which we had already confiscated."†   (source)
  • In New L.A. Officer Peabody, arrange to confiscate.†   (source)
  • "This is confiscated as evidence," she said.†   (source)
  • 'Confiscate?' he shrieked, as though he could not believe his own ears.†   (source)
  • Put one toe on, and I confiscate your equipment.†   (source)
  • I was stripped of my clothes and Colonel Jacobs was finally able to confiscate my kaross.†   (source)
  • "I confiscated these myself," I answered.†   (source)
  • She had confiscated it from Lundin, she explained.†   (source)
  • The keystone of the state's case was the six-page Plan of Action confiscated in the Rivonia raid.†   (source)
  • And the weapons were all ones which had been confiscated during the annexation.†   (source)
  • Door-to-doors will begin at oh seven hundred and building security discs will be confiscated.†   (source)
  • It will be confiscated, and you will be charged appropriately.†   (source)
  • Confiscation protocol for Björneborgsvägen 8B.†   (source)
  • Of course, it depends on how we interpret the confiscated weapons.†   (source)
  • They hounded him even after death—the state confiscated his ashes after his cremation.†   (source)
  • We found and confiscated a bag containing about 200,000 kronor.†   (source)
  • The PG ordered the report confiscated from the police—it's not to be disseminated or copied."†   (source)
  • Nor does it have the right to confiscate wands until charges have been successfully proven; again, as I reminded you on the night of the second of August.†   (source)
  • We don't want it confiscated.†   (source)
  • The Decree for Justifiable Confiscation gives the Ministry the power the confiscate the contents of a will-†   (source)
  • The other day Arthur confiscated a box of cursed Sneakoscopes that were almost certainly planted by a Death Eater.†   (source)
  • Confiscated.†   (source)
  • She works in one of the warehouses nicknamed "Canada," where prisoners sort through the belongings confiscated from fellow victims.†   (source)
  • "D'you think he knew the Ministry would confiscate his will and examine everything he'd left us?" asked Harry.†   (source)
  • Apparently inspired by the black wave, some enterprising rebel commander came up with the idea of confiscating people's abandoned automobiles and sending them unmanned down the streets.†   (source)
  • Joyce's Ulysses was censored, banned, and confiscated in both the United Kingdom and the United States, in part for its sexual references (lots of sex thought, even if the only sex act shown in it is onanistic).†   (source)
  • "If we're in the authorities' files as potential emigrants, they'll confiscate the profits from the auction, too."†   (source)
  • They searched for and confiscated anything and everything connected to John Wilkes Booth, including documents unconnected to the assassination.†   (source)
  • Larry Lish was "busted" while trying to buy beer at a local grocery store; the manager of the store had confiscated Lish's fake identification—the phony draft card that falsified his age—and called the police.†   (source)
  • Well then, it would be a perfect way for Umbridge to manage it — tip off Filch, let him do the dirty work and confiscate the letter, then either find a way of stealing it from him or else demand to see it — I don't think Filch would object, when's he ever stuck up for a student's rights?†   (source)
  • Not as many shoulder holsters as she would expect; all the gun-carrying Feds are probably out in what used to be Alabama or Chicago trying to confiscate back bits of United States territory from what is now a Buy 'n' Fly or a toxic-waste dump.†   (source)
  • Mr. Bennett's policy of "the iron heel of ruthlessness" had been correct, he said, as imprisonment of those plotting to topple elected governments and confiscate private property was the only way to deal with subversion.†   (source)
  • The regime created an instant pool of such women by the simple tactic of declaring all second marriages and nonmarital liaisons adulterous, arresting the female partners, and, on the grounds that they were morally unfit, confiscating the children they already had, who were adopted by childless couples of the upper echelons who were eager for progeny by any means.†   (source)
  • Metal dog tags were confiscated, in an apparent effort to comply with the stipulation that those executing POWs "not …. leave any traces."†   (source)
  • A sorry-looking Santiclo and a not so sorry-looking Tiny and Bloody Juan came in with four other guards to confiscate our crucifixes.†   (source)
  • "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual —" detention disembowelment and we couldn't help noticing a drawer in one of his filing cabinets marked Confiscated and Highly Dangerous.†   (source)
  • Mortati had no way of knowing, but the brands had been confiscated by the Vatican over a century ago.†   (source)
  • Nothing was moving except the horrible kittens that were still frolicking on the wall plates above the confiscated broomsticks.†   (source)
  • …commencement, when he threatened to withhold our diplomas if we didn't stop our uproar; he must have known then that he had lost …. because Dan Needham and Mr. Early, and a solid one third or one half of the faculty stood up to applaud our riotous support of Owen; and we were joined by several informed members of the Board of Trustees as well, not to mention all those parents who had written angry letters to the headmaster regarding that illiberal business of confiscating our wallets.†   (source)
  • The Decree for Justifiable Confiscation gives the Ministry the power the confiscate the contents of a will-†   (source)
  • Would he confiscate or destroy the book that had taught Harry so much …. the book that had become a kind of guide and friend?†   (source)
  • So when someone does something bad, they try to find quick and dirty punishments, like flogging, confiscation of property, public humiliation, or, in the case of people who have a high potential of going onto hurt others, a warning tattoo on a prominent body part POOR IMPULSE CONTROL Apparently, this guy went to such a place and lost his temper real bad.†   (source)
  • He pawed through the men's belongings, confiscating personal papers and photographs of loved ones, deeming much of it "suspicious" and destroying it.†   (source)
  • Why else leave it behind in Saint-Malo, if not in fear that it could be confiscated during his journey back?†   (source)
  • He confiscated and destroyed POWs' family photographs, and brought men to his office to show them letters from home, then burned the unopened letters in front of them.†   (source)
  • It was confiscated.†   (source)
  • Until that summer, my long apprenticeship to maturity struck me as arduous and humiliating; Randy White had confiscated my fake draft card, and I wasn't yet old enough to buy beer—I wasn't independent enough to merit my own place to live, I wasn't earning enough to afford my own car, and I wasn't something enough to persuade a woman to bestow her sexual favors upon me.†   (source)
  • The civil affairs people have stacks of confiscated German chocolate in rectangular cartons, and Marie-Laure and Madame Ruelle eat too many to count.†   (source)
  • I will want their broomsticks confiscated, of course; I shall keep them safely in my office, to make sure there is no infringement of my ban.†   (source)
  • They loaded their truck with all the things they had confiscated, including the bicycle that Qian had refused to lend them.†   (source)
  • Except for a few farm horses over at Dede's and the old mule at Mama's, it was the only transportation left us, now that all the cars had been confiscated.†   (source)
  • "Why didn't you confiscate them then?" demanded Harry, it seemed extraordinary that Hermione's m ania for upholding the rules could have abandoned her at this crucial juncture.†   (source)
  • Ron assured Harry he would reimburse him for his half the moment he left Hogwarts and got a job, but before they could close the deal, Hermione had confiscated the bottle from Carmichael and poured the contents down a toilet.†   (source)
  • In choppy English, the officer told them that the crewmen had been rifling through the captives' wallets, which had been confiscated when they came on board.†   (source)
  • Werner stays up late listening to his radio or driving himself through the complicated math he copied out of The Principles of Mechanics before it was confiscated.†   (source)
  • If Lin-lin's family had to live on just sixty yuan a month, and half of their clothes had been confiscated, she would learn to sew too.†   (source)
  • Arthur Weasley of the Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects said that his team had been acting upon a confidential tipoff.'†   (source)
  • Yes, Rufus Scrimgeour has set up several new offices in response to the present situation, and Arthur's heading the Office for the Detection and Confiscation of Counterfeit Defensive Spells and Protective Objects.†   (source)
  • On another day, Louie looked across the compound to see the Bird and Kono standing before a line of POWs, holding a confiscated book on boxing and taking turns punching the prisoners.†   (source)
  • He told them he was sixty-three, not sixty, as they claimed, that his papers had been unfairly confiscated, that he was not a terrorist; he wobbled before the Feldwebel in charge and stumbled through the few German phrases he could stitch together—"Sie mfissen mich helfen!"†   (source)
  • I confiscated that, too.†   (source)
  • She threw the stamp album casually into the bag of things to be confiscated and went back downstairs.†   (source)
  • In three months, Sergeant Major von Rumpel has traveled to Berlin and Stuttgart; he has assessed the value of a hundred confiscated rings, a dozen diamond bracelets, a Latvian cigarette case in which a lozenge of blue topaz twinkled; now, back in Paris, he has slept at the Grand Hotel for a week and sent forth his queries like birds.†   (source)
  • Also convicted murderers, fugitives who'd been sentenced to death in absentia… and a smattering of colonials whose businesses were confiscated — again by both sides.†   (source)
  • We've got a little time—find out exactly how long before the next issue is published—but we have to confiscate both those copies of the police report.†   (source)
  • Thomas had never seen the oil reserves, but the Forest Guard frequently confiscated barrels of the stuff from fallen armies and hauled it off as spoil.†   (source)
  • When marching into new territory, obtaining supplies for an army was a simple matter of confiscating food and other essentials from the people they conquered, and stripping resources from the surrounding countryside.†   (source)
  • It was left that the individual states be requested to provide some form of compensation for property they had confiscated, a gesture that would prove largely meaningless.†   (source)
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