douanier
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douaniers
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A startled douanier, standing in the door of his office stared up into the square faces of grey-coated horsemen riding past.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was open—abandoned—not a sentry, not a douanier visible.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The oily eloquence which Terry lavished on that comparatively insignificant French douanier ought to have earned him a billet as first secretary to a Legation.
From My Friend the Chauffeur by Frederic Lowenheim
This gift they have in common with the Primitives; and this the douanier possessed in an extraordinary degree.
From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell
I remember that when we entered Rome, I saw the douanier who examined my trunk remove from it, as he thought unperceived, a hair-brush, book, &c., and slyly hide them behind another trunk.
From Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland
My shambles contrasts sharply with the technical mastery of the canvas hanging on the wall behind me: Ray's copy of a painting from Monet's series Cabane des douaniers, effet d'après-midi.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 22, 2013
At Paris' Orly airport, international flights were delayed while douaniers and police poked through every outgoing suitcase.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not the Douvres-Calais that day! only that horrible little narrow boat that always upsets me—and I—such an heroic being, bearing the mighty mediæval sword, an object of wonder and questioning to sailors, douaniers, passengers alike.
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
I could hardly understand what the French douaniers said, still less make them understand what I had to say.
From My Autobiography A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
This also was sacred ground, it appears, but the douaniers let the blood-horse pass, not even making the feint to prod his inside for contraband.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea
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