A delightful old Bavarian Landsturmman searched me for contraband letters when our cart stopped on the Belgian side of a barricade at Maastricht, with Dutch soldiers on the other side.
Fancy any Belgian trying to get him to carry a contrabandletter or a German commander trying to work him for a few sacks of flour!
Sometimes a vessel appeared off the coast behaving in a suspicious manner and leading the officers to believe she carried a cargo of contraband goods.
The usual method of the smugglers was this: a vessel laden with contrabandgoods would appear at an arranged place upon an arranged time.
Also Lord Stormont, the English ambassador, harassed the French government with ceaseless representations and complaints concerning these betrayed shipments of contraband cargoes.
He had to load his cargoes and clear his ships as best he could, precisely like any ordinary dealer in contraband wares; there was no favoritism, no winking at his breaches of the law.
Vessels engaged in contraband trade were seized and confiscated, and the colonial commerce with the West Indies was nearly annihilated.
The operation was neither long nor vexatious, and seemed to be rather a matter of legal form than induced by a desire or expectation of detecting contraband articles.
These were warrants to custom-house offi1761cers, giving them and their deputies a general power to enter houses or stores where it might be suspected that contraband goods were concealed.
They were taken, as they told me, by a Portuguese vessel, together with their ship, as a Dutch prize under pretence of contraband trade.
There was nothing contraband in the cargo or destination of this vessel, as the subsequent decision of the St. Petersburg Prize Court proved, yet the Allanton was confiscated, and her crew held prisoners at Vladivostock for months.
The Government service for which they had been designated was that of searching for contraband on neutral vessels, and the soi-disant cruisers lost no time in demonstrating their zeal.
From the facilities afforded by this secluded place for concealing contraband goods, it was always noted as a favourite resort for western fair-traders.
The carrier of the vodka hopes that he will be ashamed to examine him too much in detail; but if the corporal is a cunning fellow, that is just what he will do; and in that case he finds the contraband vodka.
England sent out her ships of war and privateers, and carried on a lucrative contraband trade among the Spanish islands and on the Spanish main.
Among those who had made themselves most offensive in their endeavors to suppress the contraband trade was Captain William Reid, of the armed sloop Liberty, which was cruising in quest of smugglers in Long Island Sound and Narragansett Bay.
Meanwhile it had proved its mettle by taking a French contraband schooner and carrying her into Newport for adjudication.
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.
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.
Contraband and neutral trade are not included as frequently as they were in the 18th century.
But, with reason or without it, the dull people have succeeded in affixing to our novels the stigma of being a species of contraband goods.
Sometimes, he is afraid to print the word Novel at all in his lists, and smuggles in his contraband fiction under the head of Miscellaneous Literature.
Get down and see if there's any contraband upon him.
We loaded our lugger with contraband goods, mostly lace and brandy, an extremely valuable cargo.
Prisoners all marched out to-day except the sick; Colonel Sanborn, inspecting officer, taking all contraband articles from them.
Hautefeuille in support of the pretension to treat the Rebel agents as contraband of war; on the contrary, he mentioned M.
Are despatches contraband of war, so as to render the ship liable to seizure?
Some went to the Contraband Home at Davis's Bend, others to the negro quarters at Natchez, others to plantations near Vidalia, and a few returned to their former homes.
Next came a report from an unreliable contraband that our horses had been stolen.
The searching of the train for articles contraband of war was then a new feature.
From the extent of the contrabandtrade and the corruption of the custom-house officers, the amount levied on imports and exports can hardly be above two-thirds of their proper value.
The reader must remember also that in Spain smuggling and contraband dealing in various forms is carried on to such a vast extent as seriously to vitiate all trade returns.
Among the black soldiers, wounded or sick, and in the contraband camps, I also took my way whenever in their neighborhood, and I did what I could for them.
They are proper contraband articles, and were purchased in France and Spain and at the Azores, without the help, I believe, of Captain Tryon.
You shall never be asked to go outside in our vessel; nor shall you be asked to help land any item of our contraband goods--Hush!
When President Lincoln's proclamation, announcing the blockade of all the Confederate ports was issued, Nassau took on an air of business and importance, and at once became the favorite resort of vessels engaged in contraband trade.
I don't see how you got out of Boston with your contraband cargo," said Marcy.
Nor has any neutral nation such a jurisdiction over her merchant vessels upon the high seas as to exclude a belligerent nation from the right of searching them for contraband of war or for the property or persons of her enemies.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contraband" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
