"Well, I'd send them all to penal servitude, anyhow," he said, "and I'd confiscate their funds as well."英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
The overseer, caring more for law than gospel, confiscated all he found. He had his desk full of Bibles. It sounded oddly to hear him say to the most religious girl in the room, when he took hers away, "I did think you had more conscience than to bring that book here." But we had some close ethical questions to settle in those days. It was a rigid code of morality under which we lived. Nobody complained of it, however, and we were doubtless better off for its strictness, in the end.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Three. Three tumbrils faring away with their dread loads over the hushing snow. `I must see Lorry,' the Doctor repeated, turning her another way. The staunch old gentleman was still in his trust; had never left it. He and his books were in frequent requisition as to property confiscated and made national. What he could save for the owners, he saved. No better man living to hold fast by what Tellson's had in keeping, and to hold his peace. A murky red and yellow sky, and a rising mist from the Seine, denoted the approach of darkness.英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
The president nodded, and entered in the book: "Martigne, coachmaker. Accused of conspiring in prison. Anticipated course of law by suicide. Action accepted as sufficient confession of guilt. Goods confiscated. 1st Thermidor, year two of the Republic."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
They've got a dozen Sniders that ought to be confiscated."
"Why didn't you?" Joan asked. "And have a row on my hands with the Commissioner? He's terribly touchy about his black wards, as he calls them. Well, we started them along their way, though they went in on the beach to kai-kai several miles back. They ought to pass here some time to-day."
Two hours later the canoes arrived. No one saw them come. The house-boys were busy in the kitchen at their own breakfast. The plantation hands were similarly occupied in their quarters.英文原著 · 《Adventure》
Well, then, the least we can do is to search his room, and if we find any more of these, we'll confiscate them.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》