Ordinary peculationsthat were wasted over gaming-tables.
Peculations of some order; of this she was reasonably sure.
If he does not lose his job inside of twenty-four hours after the interview, he may continue his peculations in perfect tranquillity of conscience.
Its results in the failure of people not directly involved, were greater than could have been expected; and the sum of his peculations mounted under investigation.
It painted the deplorable condition of Canada, and exposed without reserve the peculations and robberies of those intrusted with its interests.
The directors of the trade at Japan had been selected from a very inferior class of society, and the peculations on overweight of the copper, &c.
But for the peculations by Government officials from the highest circles downwards, the inhabitants of the Colony would doubtless have been a million or so richer per annum.
Observations on certain peculations in New France,” in N.
Railways, like all other public works in Russia, have been constructed at enormous expense, from the peculations of the officials who had to do with them.
But small peculations are considered by the Chinese as their legitimate game.
Prosecuted for misdemeanour and extensive peculations while in office, the Freemasons compassed his escape to Geneva.
Delaford began to stammer out thanks, and promises of explaining the whole of Robson's peculations (little he knew the whole of them).
A] And that is only a glaring instance ofpeculations that were all but universal.
He was accused of gross peculations committed while in command in Flanders.
It was he who was considered responsible for the misconduct of the French war, the peculations of the king's favourites, and the demands of the crown for increased taxation.
They were much straitened, moreover, from want of provisions, through the knavishpeculations of the commissaries who had charge of the magazines in Rome.
Rightly or wrongly, they were thought to be concerned in the peculations that disgraced the campaign of 1877 and in the plot for the murder of Alexander II.
Is it possible," said I, "that Barras could have said so, when you know so well of all the peculations of which he has been guilty since your return?
The detection of his long concealed and successful peculations was a thunderbolt to the Jemadar.
It was thought in England that the court had other objects than the protection of the Governor-General against the examinations of those sent out with instructions to inquire into the peculations of men in power.
The Commissioners of the Admiralty had been too busy with peculations to carry them out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peculations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
