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During the end of the Indian Wars in 1890, the U.S. 7th Cavalry was confiscating firearms from Chief Big Foot’s band on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, when a gunshot sounded.

From Washington Times • Jun. 25, 2019

She said the state government, though, was confiscating garments made in unlicensed factories and trying to pay workers for lost wages from a government fund created with registration fees from garment companies.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2016

Dowries had been swallowed up in the soil, and the Gracchan law was confiscating personal as well as real property, taking the wife's fortune as well as the husband's.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

The landowners, who were losing money because the Government was confiscating so much food, were not only criticising von Bethmann-Hollweg but holding back as much food as they could for higher prices.

From Germany, The Next Republic? by Ackerman, Carl W. (Carl William)

The unconventionality of the action seemed to receive some justification from the fact that she was confiscating only her own share.

From The Independence of Claire by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.