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Example sentences for "perquisition"

Lexicographically close words:
perplext; perpose; perque; perquisite; perquisites; perquisitions; perre; perriwig; perros; perruque
  1. But he read in the papers that story of a bradawl found in the Rue Godot-de-Mauroy, and it made him anxious, because the police may make a perquisition here.

  2. One morning, moreover, Guillaume found his own name mentioned in connection with a perquisition at the residence of a revolutionary journalist, who was a friend of his.

  3. If there should be a perquisition there, he may be questioned, and may refuse to answer, in order to guard his secret.

  4. To thousands of honest folk a Perquisition was an ever present fear through the old Régime, and this fear became acute terror in the Revolution.

  5. Yes," said Senator Burton quietly, and trying to speak as if a police Perquisition of a respectable hotel was the most ordinary thing in the world.

  6. But, of course, a Perquisition in a house of this kind is a mere farce, without a plan to guide us.

  7. This Perquisition brought some of the old interest back.

  8. To have a Perquisition without a plan is a farce!

  9. I was told confidentially that this Perquisition would probably lead to nothing, and, as you see, it has led to nothing.

  10. He realised that this young man, whom he took for an Englishman, had been present on behalf of the people at whose request the Perquisition had been ordered.

  11. Not a word had been said of the coming Perquisition to those staying in the hotel.

  12. Perhaps you, Monsieur le Sénateur, will inform the hotel people that a Perquisition is about to take place.

  13. The Suprema sent this to the tribunals and followed it, June 14th, with detailed instructions, ordering a general perquisition to be conducted through the parish priests throughout Spain.

  14. But Osmond satisfied himself, by a perquisition of every house in those sanctuaries, that he was not there.

  15. Under the impulsion of the Inquisition the royal officials had again made diligent perquisition and had collected all the copies of the Talmud on which they could lay their hands.

  16. The Archbishop of Treves made a perquisition through his city, and found three schools of heretics in full activity.

  17. A number of Waldenses were already in the episcopal prison, and they made diligent perquisition after the rest.

  18. But it would be too long to dilace upon all these things: wee will content our selves, to trace some shadows of that which our perquisition and labour hath enabled us to acquire, by the space of 50.


  19. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perquisition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dragnet; exploration; forage; frisk; hunt; hunting; posse; probe; quest; rummage; search; searching; stalk; stalking