They slipped down to the sea without attracting the attention of Gaspare, got into the little boat, and rowed gently out towards Nisida. "I feel like a contrabandista," said Artois, as they stole under the lee of the island towards the open sea--"as if Gaspare would fire upon us if he heard the sound of oars."
"Quick! Quick! Let us get away. Pull harder, Monsieur Emile! How slow you are!"
Laughingly Artois bent to the oars. "Vere, you are a baby!" he said. "And what are you, then, I should like to know?" she answered, with dignity.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
An appeal was made to the Court of Exchequer in England for the granting of search warrants to be issued in America by the king's officers for the purpose of ferreting out contraband goods. These warrants granted by the Court of Exchequer were the Writs of Assistance, the name of which appears so frequently and with so much odium in the colonial history of the times. These writs were granted by the court under pressure of the ministry in the year 1760.英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
The thing to be done was the examination of any place and all places where contraband goods might be supposed to be lodged. Whether there were evidence or no evidence, the case was the same. The document was a writ of arbitrary search.英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
It was Washington who formally confiscated the property, and turned it over to the State of New York as contraband of war.英文原著 · 《John Jacob Astor》
We see how anxious he was for his brother to make a good official showing. If a niggardly Government refused to provide decent quarters--no matter; the miners, with gold pouring in, would themselves pay for a suite "superbly carpeted," and all kept in order by "two likely contrabands"--that is to say, negroes. Samuel Clemens in those days believed in expansion and impressive surroundings. His brother, though also mining mad, was rather inclined to be penny wise in the matter of office luxury--not a bad idea, as it turned out.英文原著 · 《Letters Vol. 1》
Look, I'll keep your little crush busy long enough for you to get rid of the contraband, but the next three weddings I'm invited to, you're my date, dummy.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》