Sentence examples for he confiscated from from inspiring English sources

Henry VIII, who already had the palaces of Westminster, Greenwich, Richmond and St James, extended the two he confiscated from Wolsey, and set about making one of them, York House, into the sprawling muddle that was Whitehall.

Family and friends claim that this unarmed man was killed here, or close to it, likely because of the surveillance equipment friends claim he confiscated from the cops.

As a teenager he plucked it from a high shelf when he was looking to swipe a switchblade his father said he had confiscated from a parishioner.

Then he told her to be careful driving on the roads, because he just pulled over some "weirdos" and showed her a giant bag of weed and pills he had confiscated from them.

Coach Shea Lee Tergesenn), a friend of the family, believes a tape he has confiscated from two freshmen depicts Brandon engaging in rough, possibly coercive sex with an unidentified girl.

Conversation with Whitey Bimstein who showed reporter a pound of metal slugs he had confiscated from a pair of upstate fighters, who had intended to use them in coin-box telephones.

He confiscated film from photographers who shot a band member without makeup.

He confiscated property from the upper classes and used the state's coercive power to direct the working of that land by the army".

Knott's poems claim a peculiar kind of privacy, as though he confiscated his lines from public view in order to mete them out on his own stubborn terms.

Charlotte Smith, an assistant prosecutor, said that while Officer Shawn Costa, 29, was on patrol on Oct. 11, he confiscated a bag of marijuana from someone, and a short time later stopped a car with two young women in it.

In all, he confiscated 134 vessels, and proceeds from their sale amounted to 80 million francs.