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  • He worried that the FBI had returned to the house to search one more time for contraband.†  (source)
  • Men would deftly pass contraband, or the men bearing it, around during the searches, while the guards' backs were turned.†  (source)
  • Four days later she marched into Father's office at the button factory with a handful of contraband photographs.†  (source)
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  • There was endless talk about the "sexiness" of black clothes and makeup, the "fun" of contraband alcohol, marijuana, and self-mutilation, and the adventures of a classmate whose girlfriend went to "this satanic church, cult thing where you have to drink a kitten's blood to get in."†  (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)
  • I demand the service of this contrabandist as my domestic until this day week.'†  (source)
  • He tells God he doesn't want to haul contraband, but it's the only way to help the migrants.†  (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)
  • Contrabandist!†  (source)
  • The smoke and heat were becoming overwhelming: Below them the cursed fire was consuming the contraband of generations of hunted students, the guilty outcomes of a thousand banned experiments, the secrets of the countless souls who had sought refuge in the room.†  (source)
  • These slaves were referred to as "contrabands."†  (source)
  • Contrabandist!†  (source)
  • In Amsterdam a railway porter, a Surinamese Indian who speaks a little bit of Hindi, puts me in touch with the captain of a trawler who cargoes contraband into Paramaribo, then outward to the States.†  (source)
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