tollman
Americannoun
plural
tollmenEtymology
Origin of tollman
Example Sentences
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Arrived at the bridge, she paused to hand a twenty-copeck piece to a blind beggar who sat on the ground by the tollman’s booth.
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"How much is to pay?" said Mr. George to the tollman, taking out his purse.
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Death saw a tollman taking a toll, In the spirit of his fraternity; But he knew that sort of man would extort, Though summoned to all eternity.
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She clutched her brother as they swayed past mooring-posts, barrels, coils of rope, and with a wild lurch around the tollman's house at the quay-head, breasted the steep village street.
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I’ll read you just a few of the leaders I wrote at that time upon the Buff job of appointing a new tollman to the turnpike here.
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