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I confiscated her!" Saldanha, a journalist as well as coach, was a fine story teller.

I confiscated her!" Men will be men, and nowadays, when most at this championship are millionaires, laying down the law gets harder.

In the morning, before the children woke up, I confiscated all the computers, tablets and telephones in the apartment, and I unplugged the television.

After the fifth time it rang, I confiscated it and put it into a pint-glass and filled it with water.

I was a fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; so I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one, and have done my best to make it remain what it was in his hands—a sign and symbol and warrant that whatever is found in its company may be gambled on as being the petrified truth; how I have succeeded, it would not be modest in me to say.

After the allegations about Roethlisberger came out last year, I confiscated the child-sized No. 7 jersey in our house, which wasn't such a loss because there was also a black-and-gold No. 43 (Troy Polamalu) in the closet, which has since been joined by a No. 86 (Hines Ward).

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Al-Shabaab Is Confiscating Camera-Equipped 'Spy' Phones.

"When I hear a mobile ringing in a meeting, I confiscate it," he says.

(Though I may make an exception in your case, Bumbile, when I confiscate your phone, lock you in a cupboard and order you to STOP TALKING).

I confiscate your farm.

Discovered a new use for my dad-issued cargo pants: Mobile storage for cell phones I confiscate from my kids.

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