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  • Alaska went in alone and walked out the door five minutes later weighed down by two paper bags filled with contraband: three cartons of cigarettes, five bottles of wine, and a fifth of vodka for the Colonel.†   (source)
  • Her grapefruit box was packed with contraband these days, all of it from Park….†   (source)
  • If you deliver contraband items, you will be imprisoned yourself.†   (source)
  • Mulch started, contraband dropping from his sleeves.†   (source)
  • He tells God he doesn't want to haul contraband, but it's the only way to help the migrants.†   (source)
  • His favorite story, sold to a small southern Maine magazine called Contraband for copies, had been a piece called "The Monkey Is Here, Paul DeLong."†   (source)
  • One of the biggest contraband shipments we came across that winter were dates.†   (source)
  • A market doesn't simply shut down when its goods become contraband.†   (source)
  • Underneath his legal vegetables were the contraband humans that he ferried across the river.†   (source)
  • They were likely looking for any contraband, but he also knew that anything was possible.†   (source)
  • It was also the time when he happened to find in one of his mother's trunks a liter bottle of the cologne that the sailors from the Hamburg-American Line sold as contraband, and he could not resist the temptation to sample it in order to discover other tastes of his beloved.†   (source)
  • I would lunge for the head, prying open his jaws and nabbing the contraband.†   (source)
  • This stuff"—he pointed a finger at the crate—"this is illegal contraband.†   (source)
  • I'm still worried she might have spotted our work, but Sonia says that woman has a different kind of contraband in mind.†   (source)
  • I followed the other women into an ante-room, where we were searched for contraband and examined for appropriate dress.†   (source)
  • "Mandela," the officer said, "we are charging you for possession of contraband, and you will pay for this."†   (source)
  • I would never get used to the cough part of this drill, which was supposed to reveal contraband hidden in one's privates—it was just so unnatural.†   (source)
  • Thank you, J. I left with my contraband, glancing back to see that J was staring after me, his expression a mixture of anxiety and regret.†   (source)
  • The customs men checked the cab for contraband and breezed through our bags and we were in our rented car in a matter of minutes.†   (source)
  • His contraband entered the house through the service door and exited through the front door on its way to other destinations, where Jean consumed it in secret revels or sold it at exorbitant prices.†   (source)
  • Emily dropped her voice as if she were discussing selling contraband on the black market.†   (source)
  • Alone for the holiday, too, fixing English-muffin pizzas in a contraband toaster oven.†   (source)
  • I have a buyer in Los Angeles who's interested in the carvings-should bring in fifty, and that's without the contraband.†   (source)
  • I knew the drill: they would shake out his clothes to make sure there was no contraband hidden, then tell him to get dressed again.†   (source)
  • The corrupt military has its own sources of income, contraband, drugs and protection rackets.†   (source)
  • He was a Cambodian and no saint by any means, but he knew all the contraband trails, so he was your point.†   (source)
  • Any such attributes were "contraband language" in America.†   (source)
  • They had seen her come down that street once in a broken Chevy that had about five hundred dollars' worth of contraband liquor in its trunk, and there was even the time she'd come home with a broken nose she'd gotten in some hair-raising escapade in St. Louis, but never had she walked among them with a broken spirit.†   (source)
  • "Is there liquor in Lamb Pignetti's press?" he said, flinging open Pig's steel locker, and lifting up the stacks of folded laundry, he searched for contraband material.†   (source)
  • The Spanish argued that they had no control over renegade elements of society or the destinations of their contraband.†   (source)
  • Dad and I would go to the zoo early in the morning, just the two of us, When the coast was clear, I would throw my contraband peanuts to the monkeys.†   (source)
  • These slaves were referred to as "contrabands."†   (source)
  • France uses more than twenty thousand army troops to enforce their commercial regulations against contraband.†   (source)
  • The only reason he joined the conspiracy was that, in addition to running a small carriage-repair business in Port Tobacco, Maryland, he moonlights as a smuggler, ferrying mail, contraband, and people across the broad Potomac into Virginia.†   (source)
  • He had it shipped to a florist on Vegas II, one with a dubious reputation for dealing in contraband flora.†   (source)
  • At the infamous Gestapo headquarters—that terrible Warsaw simulacrum of Satan's antechamber—the ham lay unwrapped and pinkly glistening on the desk between herself, handcuffed, and a hyperactive, monocled zealot who almost exactly resembled Otto Kruger and who demanded to know where she had obtained this contraband.†   (source)
  • I had been thinking purely in terms of a diamond-smuggling operation, with him as the natural disposer of the contraband stones.†   (source)
  • Before this, I scraped on the wall with our contraband nail.†   (source)
  • The guards were looking for drugs, weapons, any contraband.†   (source)
  • It's a pretty serious offense if you're caught with contraband.†   (source)
  • This would eliminate our natural security against direct contraband with foreign countries.†   (source)
  • It was in this contraband hospital that Harriet Tub-man began to play her new role of nurse.†   (source)
  • I knew the avocados had been purchased from commissary and were not really contraband.†   (source)
  • Your papers are filled with stories about contraband Africans.†   (source)
  • It is not so difficult as getting in, unless you are searched and contraband is found.†   (source)
  • But Bourne's cell's been tossed religiously—and we've never found any contraband.†   (source)
  • All the contrabands tried to get in the small boats at once.†   (source)
  • Contraband could easily and safely travel through one State to another.†   (source)
  • Best of all, there was a platter of deviled eggs—a really challenging contraband item to produce.†   (source)
  • There'd be an explosion of illegal exports flooding the contraband markets across the world.†   (source)
  • They are contraband Africans direct from the black market.†   (source)
  • John, you can't give him contraband," Whitakersaid, glancing over his shoulder at the control booth.†   (source)
  • Far more people were trying to get contraband from the outside now, with occasionally comic results.†   (source)
  • Port Royal was filled with contrabands, poverty-stricken, sick, homeless, starving.†   (source)
  • As each verse ended, the contrabands threw up their hands and shouted, "Glory!†   (source)
  • Contraband included things like cigarettes, drugs, cell phones, and lingerie.†   (source)
  • ONE OF the many contraband items I had in my possession was nail polish.†   (source)
  • In fact, a guard could pat you down at any time if they suspected you had contraband on you.†   (source)
  • There were only a handful of ways to get outside contraband.†   (source)
  • Over fifty per cent of the country's contraband made it ashore somewhere along this half-mile stretch.†   (source)
  • They are strip-searched and asked to "squat and cough" -- an exercise to determine if they are harboring any contraband items in certain cavities of their bodies.†   (source)
  • "We've had some complaints from local citizens that certain enemy aliens on San Piedro Island have in their possession items declared illegal contraband," said the smaller man.†   (source)
  • Then it was back to the barracks, where guards rifled through the men's things in search of contraband, misfolded blankets, misaligned buttons—anything to justify a beating.†   (source)
  • Are scones and jam contraband?†   (source)
  • It was not the naughty insomnia that resulted from a trip out to the shed to listen to the contraband station.†   (source)
  • So we now have a couple of little scalpels in our hiding place along with our other contraband, the knife, the sewing scissors, the pocket mirror, four nails, and the file, and of course, this diario.†   (source)
  • Frankly most of them were criminals — smugglers of narcotics, gold, guns, jewels, all kinds of contraband.†   (source)
  • He was known in Singapore as a reclusive figure, very powerful in contraband operations, and extraordinarily ruthless.†   (source)
  • We were permitted a fairly wide range of newspapers and magazines, and could receive such previously contraband publications as Time magazine and The Guardian weekly from London.†   (source)
  • Items whose very name was unheard of began to be sold in stores, along with things that only the rich had previously been able to buy as contraband.†   (source)
  • They stopped cars indiscriminately, searching for anti revolutionary contraband such as drugs, literature critical of Shiite Islam, or American-made cassette tapes.†   (source)
  • Lenny's teenage fanatics were here, kids from Brooklyn and Queens who did his bits word for word, memorizing off his albums but more religiously from the rare tapes slyly recorded by traffickers in contraband goods.†   (source)
  • Newspapers were more valuable to political prisoners than gold or diamonds, more hungered for than food or tobacco; they were the most precious contraband on Robben Island.†   (source)
  • Investigators poring through the rubble of the house found not only a large cache of weapons and ammunition but also stills for the production of contraband liquor.†   (source)
  • …presence of their closest friends, more than a hundred all together, at a Pantagruelian banquet that was an endless parade of stuffed turkey, sugar-cured pork, fresh-water eel, lobster au gratin, raw oysters, the Carmelite nuns' special orange and lemon pies, the Dominicans' walnut and almond tortes, the Clarisas' chocolate and cream cakes, and cases of French champagne that were brought courtesy of the consul, who took advantage of his diplomatic privileges to traffic in contraband.†   (source)
  • After a few months, we would sprinkle a handful of sand along the corridor so that we could hear the warder's footsteps and have time to stop talking or hide any contraband.†   (source)
  • Each time Bourne took over communications, explaining in the first instance that they were on a search mission for a disabled ship bringing Taiwanese goods into the mainland, for the second a somewhat more ominous declaration that as part of the People's Security Forces they were scouting the coast for contraband vessels that had undoubtedly eluded the Raoping patrols.†   (source)
  • He believes that if the slaves are found to be contraband Africans, it will be all the British need to begin an incursion in Cuba.†   (source)
  • It's not contraband.†   (source)
  • She obeyed without saying a word, oblivious to her grandfather's anger and the violence of the men who were ransacking the house, kicking down doors, rifling wardrobes, knocking over furniture, ripping open mattresses, emptying dresser drawers, kicking the walls, and shouting orders in their search for hidden guerrillas, contraband weapons, and any other evidence they could find.†   (source)
  • He also didn't want to risk an incident where an American ship was found carrying contraband Africans.†   (source)
  • It's contraband.†   (source)
  • But instead of returning to the Department of the South, she worked in the Contraband Hospital at Fortress Monroe.†   (source)
  • If it was discovered that they didn't speak Spanish, the slaves would immediately be declared contraband.†   (source)
  • Background checks have to be done before a crew can come to work inside our gates—they're bringing in tools from the outside, which can be security threats; we have to have officers standing guard to watch them to make sure they don't wander into insecure areas; we have to make sure they're not trying to pass contraband to the inmates.†   (source)
  • The Confederates asked for their rendition under the terms of the Fugitive Slave Law, but they were informed by General Butler that "under the peculiar circumstances, he considered the fugitives 'contraband' of war."†   (source)
  • Also, I think we should let them know that, according to Section 8 of the Treaty of 1819, any persons found to be in the possession of contraband Africans shall be prosecuted as pirates.†   (source)
  • She could speak of the death of Lincoln, and epitomize all the sorrow in the world by telling about an old man, at the Contraband Hospital at Fortress Monroe, who, hearing that Lincoln was dead, lifted his tremulous old voice in prayer: "We kneel upon the ground, with our faces in our hands, and our hands in the dust, and cry to Thee for mercy, 0 Lord, this evening."†   (source)
  • They would sit in a prime spot in the back of the room and kibitz and enjoy contraband delicacies, courtesy of Pop.†   (source)
  • Before she left Port Royal, Henry K. Durrant, the surgeon in charge of the Contraband Hospital, presented her with a certificate dated at Beaufort, South Carolina, May 3, 1864: "I certify that I have been acquainted with Harriet Tubman for nearly two years; and my position as Medical Officer in charge of 'contrabands' in this town and in hospital, has given me frequent and ample opportunities to observe her general deportment; particularly her kindness and attention to the sick and…†   (source)
  • She soon learned, however, that the contrabands resented her being able to draw rations, as though she were an officer or a soldier.†   (source)
  • Smuggling contraband was a very serious shot, a breach of security, and whenever they got out of the SHU, they would stay down on the Compound.†   (source)
  • After the small boats were filled, Harriet had to sing again and again until they got all 75o contrabands on board.†   (source)
  • But now, with the place suddenly full of new "wackos" and lax oversight plus the ongoing contraband cigarette drama, the Camp was off the chain.†   (source)
  • Contraband onions were at a particular premium, and the chefs had to keep an eye peeled for guards with quivering nostrils.†   (source)
  • In order to earn money to buy food with, she made pies at night, and a home-brewed root-beer, which she got one of the contrabands to peddle in the nearby army camps during the day.†   (source)
  • They had two objectives: to destroy or take up the torpedoes that the enemy had placed in the Combahee and to bring back to Port Royal as many contrabands as they could entice away from the river area.†   (source)
  • The drug program was very strict, so she had to dispose of contraband before she went, and give away excess clothing.†   (source)
  • …Henry K. Durrant, the surgeon in charge of the Contraband Hospital, presented her with a certificate dated at Beaufort, South Carolina, May 3, 1864: "I certify that I have been acquainted with Harriet Tubman for nearly two years; and my position as Medical Officer in charge of 'contrabands' in this town and in hospital, has given me frequent and ample opportunities to observe her general deportment; particularly her kindness and attention to the sick and suffering of her own race.†   (source)
  • Her hair was salt-and-pepper, and she hid it under makeshift head scarves—sometimes a pillowcase, sometimes a contraband cloth napkin.†   (source)
  • Then again she spoke of Port Royal and the contrabands, and the strange speech of the Gullahs of South Carolina, and told about how they had said their masters had told them the Yankees had hoofs, horns and tails, and would sell them to Cuba, how they called the Confederates secesh buckra (white men who were secessionists).†   (source)
  • "I'm almost done," said Pop as she selected a few precious contraband lace brassieres to send to a friend doing life down the hill.†   (source)
  • So of course, she finds the contraband.†   (source)
  • Finally, force a cough, which would theoretically cause any hidden contraband to clatter to the floor.†   (source)
  • I wasn't about to ask, knowing that it had either come from some long-ago and distant commissary or was contraband.†   (source)
  • Slip the foodstuffs into the appropriate wrapping at the table, shove it down the front of your pants, and stroll out as nonchalantly as you could with contraband chicken riding on your hip bone.†   (source)
  • This process included purging any contraband they might have, acquiring new stuff at commissary, and loading them up with snacks and messages to carry to women who were doing time down the hill.†   (source)
  • So they go into the lobby with their contraband, probably looking like the guilty idiots they are, and Officer Reilly for some reason decides to pat them down.†   (source)
  • Every evening when she was finished with work in the kitchen,Vanessa would return to her cube, climb up in her bed, and bring out a contraband tape player, obtained somehow through the chapel.†   (source)
  • An elite crew trooped off to the warehouse, the stopping point for everything that either entered or left the prison, and where the contraband opportunities were rich.†   (source)
  • Contraband food was irresistible—one did not readily pass up the simple novelty of eating something other than institutional food, cooked with a measure of love.†   (source)
  • Per jae's instructions, I fished my precious contraband store of Vaseline out of its hiding place in a sock and tucked gobs of it into the curves of my ears.†   (source)
  • I elected to give most of my accumulated treasures away: my hot-pink contraband toenail polish, my-prized white men's pajamas that Pop had given to me, my army-green jacket, and even my precious headset radio.†   (source)
  • Miss Solomon was also a fantastic cook, and once she and Natalie had decided that I was all right, she would make me a plate of her special Saturday night dinner, usually a knockout curry prepared with kitchen contraband.†   (source)
  • My out-of-bounds infraction was a minor one, a 300-series shot, along the same lines of refusing to obey a direct order, participating in an unauthorized meeting or gathering, failing to stand for count, giving or accepting anything of value to or from another inmate, possession of nonhazardous contraband; and indecent exposure.†   (source)
  • She had a primo prison job training the service dogs, she had all the contraband onions she needed, she ran a side business doing pedicures, and rumor was that she even had a cell phone secreted somewhere in the prison, so she could call her man on the outside without waiting in line and paying the prison's sky-high rates.†   (source)
  • I believed that everyone should be able to practice according to their own preferences and beliefs, but an awful lot of pilgrims in prison seem to be making it up as they go along, in silly ways—wearing a contraband napkin on their head one month when they're practicing Islam, and then appearing in the Buddhist meditation circle the next—after realizing that they could duck out of work for this new brand of religious observance.†   (source)
  • Selling contraband cigarettes and inferior liquor at steadily rising prices, he was on the way to building up a small fortune.†   (source)
  • Those burros I told about were packed with contraband goods.†   (source)
  • Will you take charge of these contraband goods?†   (source)
  • That ship, my friends, was the first of recorded smugglers! the contraband was Jonah.†   (source)
  • I demand the service of this contrabandist as my domestic until this day week.'†   (source)
  • 'Contraband beast,' added Rigaud, 'bring Port wine!†   (source)
  • Here's contraband of war!†   (source)
  • It seemed to Madeline that Don Carlos denied knowledge of the boxes of contraband goods, then knowledge of their real contents, then knowledge of their destination, and, finally, everything except that they were there in sight, damning witnesses to somebody's complicity in the breaking of neutrality laws.†   (source)
  • Contraband goods!†   (source)
  • The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade.†   (source)
  • "Why," replied he, "I think it just possible Dantes may have been detected with some trifling article on board ship considered here as contraband."†   (source)
  • In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, while on the desk before him might be seen sundry contraband articles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins, such as half-munched apples, popguns, whirligigs, fly-cages, and whole legions of rampant little paper gamecocks.†   (source)
  • A certain portion of his time was passed at Cambridge, where he read with undergraduates as a sort of tolerated smuggler who drove a contraband trade in European languages, instead of conveying Greek and Latin through the Custom-house.†   (source)
  • Now Mr. Davis had declared limes a contraband article, and solemnly vowed to publicly ferrule the first person who was found breaking the law.†   (source)
  • So gradually the tone of the army chiefs changed; Congress forbade the rendition of fugitives, and Butler's "contrabands" were welcomed as military laborers.†   (source)
  • He had scarcely been a week at Leghorn before the hold of his vessel was filled with printed muslins, contraband cottons, English powder, and tobacco on which the excise had forgotten to put its mark.†   (source)
  • Is there, for example, anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, espouses the throne, turns into chouannerie, and, from having been an insurrection against, becomes an uprising for, sombre masterpieces of ignorance!†   (source)
  • Ben Butler, in Virginia, quickly declared slave property contraband of war, and put the fugitives to work; while Fremont, in Missouri, declared the slaves free under martial law.†   (source)
  • …sight of all his retinue; prisoners in London gaols fought battles with their turnkeys, and the majesty of the law fired blunderbusses in among them, loaded with rounds of shot and ball; thieves snipped off diamond crosses from the necks of noble lords at Court drawing-rooms; musketeers went into St. Giles's, to search for contraband goods, and the mob fired on the musketeers, and the musketeers fired on the mob, and nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way.†   (source)
  • The contraband beast, however, assuring all present, with his significant finger, that he peremptorily declined to leave his post at the door, Signor Panco offered his services.†   (source)
  • Army chaplains found here new and fruitful fields; "superintendents of contrabands" multiplied, and some attempt at systematic work was made by enlisting the able-bodied men and giving work to the others.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, my dear Lucien, here are cigars—contraband, of course—try them, and persuade the minister to sell us such instead of poisoning us with cabbage leaves.†   (source)
  • He told with perfect truth how it had come of a little contraband trading, and how he had in time been released from prison, and how he had gone away from those antecedents.†   (source)
  • Shaken out of destiny's dice-box into the company of a mere smuggler;—shut up with a poor little contraband trader, whose papers are wrong, and whom the police lay hold of besides, for placing his boat (as a means of getting beyond the frontier) at the disposition of other little people whose papers are wrong; and he instinctively recognises my position, even by this light and in this place.†   (source)
  • Contrabandist!†   (source)
  • Contrabandist!†   (source)
  • Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute, or desire of victory; and, to prevent warmth, all expressions of positiveness in opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.†   (source)
  • The French, for many years, called a certain contraband appliance a /capote Anglaise/, but after the /entente cordiale/ they changed the name to /capote Allemande/.†   (source)
  • In France, there is an army of patrols (as they are called) constantly employed to secure their fiscal regulations against the inroads of the dealers in contraband trade.†   (source)
  • This is a prodigious security against a direct contraband with foreign countries; but a circuitous contraband to one State, through the medium of another, would be both easy and safe.†   (source)
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