exciseman

How to use exciseman in a sentence

• Will you countenance me, young ladies, if some villainous attorney or exciseman should by and by come to own me?'

  Camilla | Fanny Burney

• Jem Hathaway, the exciseman, had in nothing exaggerated the magnificence of our young Londoner.

  Town Versus Country | Mary Russell Mitford

• Indeed, from the time he obtained a situation under government, he gradually began to sink the farmer in the exciseman.

  Life of Robert Burns | Thomas Carlyle

• During the day, no doubt, he was employed busily enough in doing his duty as an exciseman.

  Robert Burns | Principal Shairp.

• This was the good woman's reply to her husband when he complained of the exciseman's too demonstrative gallantry.

  The Proverbs of Scotland | Alexander Hislop