The number of recognised Forgeries is about forty-five.
The circumstance of the water mark has at various times been the means of detecting frauds, forgeries and impositions in our courts of law and elsewhere.
This work having in the absence of Davis been committed to another person, the forgeries were discovered and Davis was arrested and punished.
That was the extent of the forgeries which had been made in the paper, the manner in which they had been made betrayed the hand of an expert forger.
The defendant pleaded payment and charged negligence on plaintiff's part, both in the manner in which the checks were drawn and in the failure to discover the forgeries when the pass book was balanced and the vouchers surrendered.
These forgeries form a curious feature in the Shakespeare history of the last century.
At the "Times Forgeries Commission," Mr. Parnell was questioned about this gathering, and about several on the platform who were mentioned by name.
The revelations of the "Times" Forgeries Commission afterwards proved that all this time Pigott was giving information to the police and getting paid for it.
This same letter was brought forward in evidence some years afterwards, in the famous "Times Forgeries Commission," with a view to showing that the Irish leaders had incited to murder.
He is an unmitigated scoundrel, and he will only go out of this Court to be arrested for crime; and I do not expect to drop him until I drop him into a Penitentiary, where he can reflect upon his forgeries at leisure.
It was from him that he had procured the autographs on which two of his forgeries were based.
With this he took the autographs on which his forgeries were based.
But he flatly refused to encourage her in her admiration for these forgeries or to tolerate such junk under his roof.
Even hundreds of years ago forgeries were perpetrated by the Chinese who desired to have their works of art mistaken for still more ancient masterpieces; and so the ancient and modern makers of porcelains inscribed them accordingly.
Terrified, tortured, desperate, she had even thought to bribe the girl to pronounce the forgeries genuine.
For the major part of the forgeries consists not so much in the checks, which interest my company, but in fraudulently issued stock certificates of the By-Products Company.
As far as we are concerned it is the check forgeries only that interest the Surety Company.
I say "if He did" because it is perfectly certain that there were forgeries and interpolations introduced into the Gospels in order to square their teaching with the practice of the Church some centuries later.
Upon further inquiry it proved that these forgeries are made by certain Jews in a suburb of Bagdad--and, so far as is known, only there.
Forgeries and imitations which were intended to pass as precious stones will be spoken of in another place.
Many ingenious forgeries of the kind were produced about forty-five years ago, and purported to be brought to light by workmen engaged in excavations near the Thames in the City of London.
Deegan's forgeries seem to be confined to the 6th U.
He was much warmed up over his discoveries in that room adjoining, where the forgeries were done.
Colonel: I have had a full explanatory conversation with your Chief of Detectives in reference to forgeries lately perpetrated upon the Government and have given him every clue in my possession, to the perpetrators.
The forgeries were clumsy enough, but they favored the two points dearest to the Spanish heart--the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin and the Spanish apostolate of St. James.
His attention having been drawn to questions of authenticity by the forgeries of Vrain Lucas, he devoted himself to tracing the spurious documents that encumbered and perverted Merovingian and Carolingian history.
The success of Chatterton's forgeries and of the far more contemptible forgeries of Ireland showed that people had begun to love the old poetry well, though not wisely.
The Curia has used this, like so many other things, as an instrumentum dominationis, and a number of fables and forgeries devised in the interest of the Papal system have been interpolated into it.
In remorselessly exposing the inventions and forgeries which form the basis of the doctrine of Papal Infallibility, it necessarily attacks the whole ultramontane system of which that doctrine is the logical consequence.
Since the appearance of Gratry's Letters, what is most especially dreaded is the mention and discussion of the forgeries and fictions that have been perpetrated for centuries past in the interest of the Papacy.
Tempted by the hope of sudden wealth, his first forgeries were the notes of the Darlington Bank.
Where then was the difficulty of founding these forgeries upon writings which were not forgeries, and of making it almost impossible for any one but Mary herself to detect what was genuine in them from what was fabricated?
It is quite unnecessary to allude here to several other flimsy forgeries which, at a later period, have been attempted to be palmed upon the world as genuine letters of Mary.
If I could prove that John Wood made the checks himself, they ceased to be forgeries in one sense, and the bank could rightfully charge the amounts against his account.
The forgeries were upon blanks which had been stolen from his check-book.
Observe that though you would have honored a check for forty thousand dollars drawn by John Wood, yet the forgeries were four in number.
It certainly seems to connect the two, when we remember that the final forgeries were checks signed by Wood in favor of Grasse.
But in this case nothing of the sort had been attempted, nor indeed was any such procedure necessary, for the checks were not raised from genuine ones, but had been declared by Wood to be forgeries outright.
His son, William Henry, long survived him; but theforgeries blighted his literary reputation for ever, and he died in straitened circumstances, about the year 1840.
The "evidence of the prisoner having uttered the whole of the instruments and documents charged in the indictment to be forgeries has not been called in question by the prisoner's counsel, he not having said one word on the subject.
Remember, it is not said or proved that he forged them with his own hand; the question is, whether he had a knowledge of the forgeries that were going on at Paris during his stay there.
You can easily conceive what confusion, what expenses, and what; loss of time these precautions must occasion; but the numerous forgeries and fabrications have made them absolutely necessary.
His forgeries were only discovered after he had written a letter from Frankfort to Louis, acquitting his daughter of all knowledge of what he had done.
Immediately after the appearance of his forgeries in the Times, he suddenly lost flesh: the incessant smile and inflated waist had disappeared; his face was haggard; he was but the shadow of his former self.
It was curious to note the effect of the exposure of the Pigott forgeries on the London public.
That they were forgeries was shown by Sir David Brewster in 1855.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forgeries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
