exciseman
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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 Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm
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 Conway, Moncure Daniel
Johnson's well-known definition of an exciseman, shows the profound indignation which this universal and unsparing system of corruption excited, among the few resolute and generous spirits which its long continuance had left in the country.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
Why, sir, there's the constable, Mr. Gage, the exciseman, the hunch-backed barber, and two or three other gentlemen.
From The Beaux-Stratagem A comedy in five acts by Farquhar, George
There’s a distillery there, you know, and a fishing-village at the foot—at least there used to be six years ago, when I was living with the exciseman.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various
There is an army employed in Ireland to go with the excisemen and other taxers to make the people pay.
From Political Pamphlets by Saintsbury, George
The excisemen stood reloading the flintlocks, and Gilchrist, in a flutter of fear, gave no orders until the skiffs were offshore and rowing hard for the Gull, waiting with her sails all aback.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John
Caleb's brain was now fully engaged with abuse of the English soldiery and excisemen, so that his master found no great difficulty in escaping from him and rejoining his guests.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Scott, Walter, Sir
God forbid Scotland should retrograde towards such a state—much better that the Deil, as in Burns's song, danced away with the whole excisemen in the country.
From Political Pamphlets by Saintsbury, George
He ascribes this immunity mainly to the vigilance of the excisemen.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
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