3137 examples of the police in sentences

Where the police, representing the ruling power, controls the press there is no true liberty.

" "I care not for myself, Monsieur Crewe, so long as Madame Holymead is freed from the persecutions of the police agents," replied Gabrielle, rising from her seat as she spoke.

If he had gone to the police after the murder was discovered, told them the story of his visit to Sir Horace that night, and invited investigation into the truth of it, all would have been well.

Any person refusing to work on the brakes was liable to arrest and fine, and it was often amusing to see the crowds disperse whenever the police were in search of a relief force.

You are the High Court, and I am the Commissary of the Police.

But they had hardly arrived when some peasants said to Buvignier, "The police have already been here to arrest you, and are coming again to-night.

The prisoners had each been informed that in the eyes of the different authorities whom they would meet on the road they would pass for foreigners, Swiss or Belgians, expelled on account of their political opinions, and that the police agents would keep their title of police agents, and would represent themselves as charged with reconducting these foreigners to the frontier.

One can readily pardon the lapses of an honest man, terrified at finding himself in the coils of the police, clinging to the good name of his wife and her family, clutching at any device to throw the sleuth-hounds of the law off the real scent.

Either for the police, the landlord or an ardent suitor.

We must cross over to Holland before the police have time to interfere.

"Acting upon the advice of Mr. Francis Howard, the police decided to let the anonymous tramp out of his safe retreat within the station, and to allow him to wander whithersoever he chose.

If not, the police can have a squint at it.

As I argued beforeas the police should have argued all alongwhy did Lord Arthur deliberately accuse an innocent man of murder if not to shield the guilty one? "Remember, Lady Arthur may have been discovered; the man, George Higgins, may have caught sight of her before she had time to make good her retreat.

He had made many anxious inquiries from all those who had access to his bedside as to the result of the investigation, and the probable speedy capture of the burglars, but every one had strict orders to inform him merely that the police so far had no clue of any kind.

"The coroner's jury returned an open verdict, and Detective-Inspector Jones was charged by the police to make some inquiries about young Mr. Greenhill, whose intimacy with the unfortunate woman had been universally commented upon.

The police are searching for him, and perhaps some day they will find himthen society will be rid of one of the most ingenious men of the age.

We should calumniate the South if we amused ourselves by making a collection of atrocious deeds, in the same manner that we should calumniate France by seeking in the Police Gazette for the description of her social state.

" "What is your business?" demanded the police sergeant.

We didn't want to go to the police and confess if we could help it.

He also knew that Quade's work was done so cleverly that the police had been unable to call him to account.

In Paris the police is the providence of people who have lost any thing.

Resistin' arrest, assaultin' the police, an' doin' sayrious damage to their garments.

A terrific fight followed, and the police soon cleared the place.

The police had in vain tried to clear out this human throng.

The detectives followed, six hours later, and traced them to Liverpool very cleverly, and, with the assistance of the police, raked the town for them, and got all the great steamers watched, especially those that were bound westward, ho!

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