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safe-conducts

n. (plural of safe-conduct English)

Usage examples of "safe-conducts".

One to Egli, asking him to arrange safe-conducts across the Neuburg bridge for the English Ladies.

Mostly it consisted of standing guard at the city gates, checking permits and safe-conducts, questioning travelers who had neither, reminding incoming merchants of the rules covering their trade.

The quittances which the Mayor of Meudon had exacted from him before he would issue the necessary safe-conducts placed the whole of his future, perhaps his very life, in jeopardy.

All's been done in good haste, the safe-conducts issued for the Welsh princess and her train, all to empty London and turn men's eyes away from what else he intended, at least until it was done.

May had seen Gilbert, the new earl marshal, granted safe-conducts for himself and his brothers, for de Burgh and Basset and Siward and all the other confederates, to come to the council at Gloucester under the archbishop's protection and seek the king's grace.

All that Chauvelin remembered of it afterwards was that he was once more alone in a room with his enemy, who had demanded his signature to a number of safe-conducts, ere he finally handed over the packet of papers to him.