She seemed stumped by the legal term "muniments" - pronouncing it many times and asking twice for it to be used in a sentence. From Wordnik.com. [CBC | Top Stories News] Reference
Certainly it was preserved with much care, as if one of the 'muniments' of the citizens. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Town-Planning] Reference
Fetter Lane was opened for the reception of our muniments. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
She has fits with muniments, having to repeat it over and over again, and glancing nervously at the clock. From Wordnik.com. [Spelling Bee semifinals, live] Reference
Pierre tells what Calcutta banks are custodians of papers, shares of stock, other muniments of title and moneys. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
From the Council Chamber is reached the stone-groined Treasury, now used for the safe keeping of muniments and records. From Wordnik.com. [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference
The town records, the treasurer's accounts, and the muniments, etc., were safely removed to a house at the end of High-street. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
No documents have passed, no memoranda have been made, no minutes have been made, no entries and counter - entries appear in the official muniments. From Wordnik.com. [The Perils of Certain English Prisoners] Reference
The men of Princeton stood like muniments of rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Henry Van Dyke] Reference
It cannot be interpreted out of the historical muniments. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The controversy turned on the records and muniments of the past. From Wordnik.com. [Address of Congress to the people of the Confederate States : joint resolution in relation to the war,] Reference
The chapel contains an upper chamber, formerly used as a muniments room. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
As already mentioned, the muniments room was formerly above St. Andrew's. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
We need not unfold to you the muniments of your right to self-government. From Wordnik.com. [Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, Passed at Session of 1863-4, in the Eighty-Eighth Year of the Commonwealth.] Reference
She walked into the house, fortified with all the muniments of her spirit for the meeting. From Wordnik.com. [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
It is one of a thousand muniments of our old nationality which a national government would keep safe. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference
Society with the charters and the muniments, and prescribe the following rules for their safe custody. From Wordnik.com. [The Care of Books] Reference
There are also references to him in the "Book of Evidences" (Liber Evidentiarum) among the bishop's muniments, as the builder of the original Aula. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum] Reference
No documents have passed, no memoranda have been made, no minutes have been made, no entries and counter-entries appear in the official muniments. From Wordnik.com. [Perils of Certain English Prisoners] Reference
A vivid account of Blount's hazardous escape here is preserved among the muniments at St.nyhurst -- a transcript of the original formerly at St. Omers. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.] Reference
They have added largely to the muniments of personal liberty; they have immeasurably increased the just power of the National Government; they have exerted. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
I knew that among these sacred muniments I should find detailed accounts of all the principal murders committed by my sainted ancestors for forty generations. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales] Reference
This assumption of exquisite stainlessness lasted until one day a hiding-place was discovered, which contained his family muniments and the title-deeds of his estate. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
The original impression of this Seal, from which the woodcut, No. 319, was drawn, is appended to a charter, dated 1347, which is preserved amongst the muniments of Pembroke. From Wordnik.com. [The Handbook to English Heraldry] Reference
It would check and guide our inquiries now, and would prepare for the better day, when we can negotiate the restoration of our old muniments from the governments of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry] Reference
"The law of limitation as to real property," London, 1869), and their muniments of title perishable (Angell, op. cit. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
With other muniments and petty helps. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedy of Coriolanus] Reference
"I hope thy people are not without good provision of arms, and other sufficient muniments of resistance. From Wordnik.com. [The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish] Reference
"Yes, thou camest with thy cousin Barbara to seek thy grandsire's gravestone and to search out the muniments of thy race. From Wordnik.com. [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference
Westminster Abbey muniments, 54 n. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
The muniments of the Corporation of. From Wordnik.com. [Vanishing England] Reference
Keeper of the Abbey muniments, 54 n. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
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