farmer-general
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farmers-general
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Origin of farmer-general
1705–15; translation of French fermier-général
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I scribbled a note to the farmer-general, and, leaving it, ran to the stables.
From D'Ri and I by Irving Bacheller
I took the missive with wet eyes to our good farmer-general of the North.
From D'Ri and I by Irving Bacheller
An old farmer-general, an intellectual and unprejudiced man, gravely attempts to justify the purchase of Saint-Cloud by calling it "a ring for the queen's finger."
From The Ancient Regime by John Durand
He was a farmer-general of the taxes, and amassed an immense fortune by grinding the poor.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
Then we sat down to supper—ten of us: Bodard and his wife, the Controller-General, Beaumarchais, the two strangers, two pretty women whose names may not be mentioned, and a farmer-general named, I think, Lavoisier.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
The democratic triumvirate of 1794 issued an order for the seizure of twenty-seven individuals who had been farmers-general before the Revolution.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
The first noblemen of the court, knights of the different orders, farmers-general, all aspired to the honor of ruining themselves for her.
From Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself by Étienne-Léon, baron de Lamothe-Langon
A body of British troops, with one of the military farmers-general at their head, was sent to seize upon the castle in which these helpless women resided.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
These farmers-general were appointed by the king for six years, and paid an annual fixed sum every year in advance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
The collection of taxes was farmed out to the "farmers-general," who kept half they got.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers by Elbert Hubbard
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