exciseman
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But when Thomas Paine went to dwell there the Quakers and the "powers that be" had reached a modus vivendi, and the new exciseman fixed his abode with a venerable Friend, Samuel Ollive, a tobacconist.
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
The farm was given up, and he soon depended entirely upon his seventy pounds a year, the pay of an exciseman.
From Home Life of Great Authors by Griswold, Hattie Tyng
His career was various and brief: first a shoemaker, he aspired to be and became an exciseman.
From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob
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
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
All I hope is that we may not be taken for excisemen in this whisky country.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
Ye might have taken me to where excisemen or others would have wanted to pry and peep, and so endangered my commission.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
“They are bad enough there, in all conscience—more particularly, by the same token, the middlemen, tithe-proctors, and excisemen; but they didn’t bury live min in my time,” says he.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville
They had now to satisfy the imperial tax-farmers and excisemen, as well as their feudal lords.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
In 1792, a suspicious-looking brig appeared in the Solway, and Burns, with other excisemen, was set to watch her motions.
From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell
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