exciseman
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excisemen
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It was inevitable that one whose district as an exciseman reached far and wide could not regularly attend to ploughing, sowing, and reaping, and the farm was very often left to the care of servants.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
Generally, the exciseman arrived there before the captain, who would find him smoking his pipe over his jug of beer.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
His wife's father had once been an exciseman.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway
To the shopkeepers this exciseman was really an adversary and an accuser, and one can well believe that his very physiognomy would be affected by such work, and the chronic consciousness of being unwelcome.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway
In a certain little town on the Polish frontier, occupied, at the time, by Prussia, the only German officials were an old captain--retired on account of bad health--who was postmaster, and the exciseman.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
It is a tale of private life, and only varied by the perilous exploits of smugglers and excisemen.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Having arrived there, you will appear to break from me after a struggle, and run as hard as you can towards the north in the direction of the excisemen.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
He ascribes this immunity mainly to the vigilance of the excisemen.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
Monks, friars, pilgrims, palmers, soldiers, excisemen, provost-marshals and men, and mere bad debtors, how can the 'White Hart' butt against all these?
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
Naval officers are not expected to be excisemen.
From The Rival Crusoes by William Henry Giles Kingston
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