What is "confiscations"

Usage examples of "confiscations".

It is not probable that Joel's instinct for the strongest side predicted the precise confiscations that subsequently ensued, some of which had all the grasping lawlessness of a gross abuse of power.

The hope of confiscations was now active in the bosoms of all this set, and many of them had even selected the portions of property that they intended should be the reward of their own love of freedom and patriotism.

His boy preceded him to the grave, leaving, as confiscations had gone out of fashion by that time, his uncle heir-at-law, again, to the same property that he had conferred on himself.

Astibar, reeling under the economic impact of the confiscations, and the horror of the executions, still found itself able to mock.

Which, if he gave it to them, was going to soak up virtually everything he might gain from the confiscations and the new duties.

Servants betrayed their masters, one citizen became a spy upon his neighbour, and arrests and confiscations so multiplied, that the courts found a difficulty in getting through the immense increase of business thus occasioned.

Without mentioning the taxes and confiscations of which they render no account, they have, for their hoard, the ransoms offered underhandedly by "suspects" and their families.

The refractory are subject to keepers, confiscations, fines and imprisonment.

How renew that immense fund of confiscations on which the French republic has lived for the past eight years?

But now, with the War in its final stages and the clamor for peace growing daily, the Confiscations had become a delicate subject and a major bone of contention between those who wanted retribution and those who simply wanted to damp down the fires of resentment and bitterness that such retribution brought in its wake.

The confiscations and the death of T'angs notwithstanding, it had been a game until now, a diversion for the rich and bored, an entertainment to fill their idle hours.

The confiscations, the arrests and executions—these had shaken them badly.

It would be a prudent thing to follow the spirit of this law, and to limit confiscations to particular crimes.

The most wealthy families ruined by partial fines and confiscations, and the great body of his subjects oppressed by ingenious and aggravated taxes.

The great source of my solicitude is, lest it should ever be considered in England as the policy of a state to seek a resource in confiscations of any kind, or that any one description of citizens should be brought to regard any of the others as their proper prey.