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New arrêts, new retrenchments, new misery, stalk forth every day.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Walpole, Horace

The latest arrêts of the council had ordained that all shares should be paid in paper: and instantly a crowd assembled round the bank, to exchange their gold and silver for bank-notes.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

Among the Edits, Ordonnances Royaux, declarations, et arrêts du Counsel d'etat Roi concernant le Canada, nothing concerning Indian intoxication is to be found.

From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles

In 1785 the French council of state, irritated by the large influx of British manufactures which were smuggled into France, issued arrêts restraining trade with Great Britain.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Poole, Reginald Lane

Voilà de vos arrêts, Messieurs les Gens de Goût!

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord