To leave Venice, except for the autumnal villeggiatura was almost out of the question; repeated applications at the Luogotenenza won the two ladies but a tardy and scanty grace; and the use of the passport allowing them to spend a few weeks in Florence was attended with so much vexation, in coming and going upon the imperial confines, and when they returned home they were subject to so great fear of Perquisition from the police, that it was after all rather a mortification than a pleasure that the government had given them.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
If there should be a Perquisition there, he may be questioned, and may refuse to answer, in order to guard his secret.
"The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Vol. 2"
Emile Zola
But he read in the papers that story of a bradawl found in the Rue Godot-de-Mauroy, and it made him anxious, because the police may make a Perquisition here."
"The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Vol. 2"
Emile Zola