| 单词 | exciseman |
| 例句 | After leaving he school he worked as an exciseman, a job that involved collecting taxes for the government and intercepting illegal goods. Unesco honour for Gaelic archive 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Burns did three such acts—he wrote poetry—he published it; and, despairing of his farm, he became an exciseman. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z His career was various and brief: first a shoemaker, he aspired to be and became an exciseman. Life and Character of Richard Carlile 2012-03-14T02:00:25.327Z Monks, friars, pilgrims, palmers, soldiers, excisemen, provost-marshals and men, and mere bad debtors, how can the 'White Hart' butt against all these? The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z The manufacturer had, therefore, a strong inducement to enhance by every means in his power the selling value of his glass after it had escaped the exciseman’s clutches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z "Auld Mahoun's" forked tail has caught the exciseman by the cravat. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Did you ever hear the story of the farmer who had been insulted by an exciseman? Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) 2011-11-21T03:00:13.443Z Concerning the plea for the excisemen it need only be said that it is as clear and complete as any lawyer could make it. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z Why, sir, there's the constable, Mr. Gage, the exciseman, the hunch-backed barber, and two or three other gentlemen. The Beaux-Stratagem A comedy in five acts 2011-08-26T02:00:26.760Z So that all was for the best; the wholesale business being only the exciseman's affair. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z Dost thou think it is nothing to laugh at the gendarmes, excisemen, custom-house people; to enrage them, to outdo them, to hear on all sides, 'That rascally Marc—isn't he a sharp one! The Invasion of France in 1814 2011-07-27T02:00:37.397Z The very parson was bad, and preached the excisemen to sleep whilst Red Robert and Black Bill ran their cargo of smuggled bad brandy. Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z "A rebellion of the excisemen," says Oldys, "who seldom have the populace on their side, was not much feared by their superiors." 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z There were no excisemen anywhere on duty, and even the highwaymen had ceased their labours during the night. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z No custom-houses in literature for him, and particularly no excisemen, who, under pretext of contraband, drive their brutal gauge-rods into the free productions of human intelligence. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Indeed, from the time he obtained a situation under government, he gradually began to sink the farmer in the exciseman. Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z He’s only an exciseman, if you come dawn to facts, but they ca’ him a Supervisor. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z His wife's father had once been an exciseman. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z All I hope is that we may not be taken for excisemen in this whisky country. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z It includes attorneys, excisemen, directors, government pensioners, usurers, stock jobbers, with their dependents and descendants. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z Accepted a position as an exciseman at fifty pounds a year. The Real Robert Burns 2011-02-18T03:00:20.253Z Amidst a volley of shots he quickly wheeled his mare round and galloped off, hotly pursued by the excisemen, who had soon recognised him. Cathedral Cities of England The exciseman who pounced on a party of smugglers got a special reward, but he risked his life. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z The severer virtues were no less mercilessly handled, while all authority of the more invidious kind, from that of the beak to that of the exciseman, was subjected to the same unceremonious treatment. A Cursory History of Swearing They had now to satisfy the imperial tax-farmers and excisemen, as well as their feudal lords. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" But his employment did not suit the turn of his mind, and near the close of 1763 he entered the employ of government as exciseman. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence “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. Seven Frozen Sailors To the shopkeepers this exciseman was really an adversary and an accuser, and one can well believe that his very physiognomy would be affected by such work, and the chronic consciousness of being unwelcome. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z But the joke had now been carried far enough, and the exciseman gladly returned to the light of day, and the society of his fellow-man. About London 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. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 At twenty-seven he enters the employ of the English government as an exciseman, but was dismissed in a little over a year, nobody knows why. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence It is a world of fighting, and of riding, of blood, of excisemen, of the 'rum pads' and their mistresses, their dicing and their death. A Novelist on Novels "He had risen by superior energy, more than by greater honesty, to be a chief among the excisemen." 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z “Why, I was when I lived on earth an exciseman, but now I am—” “You don’t say so,” exclaimed the interrogator, as sober as he ever was in his life. About London To-morrow you shall hear of one, the noblest-hearted man in all England, and yet whose daily toil was the vulgar life of an exciseman. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day 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. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 In a certain little town on the Polish frontier, occupied, at the time, by Prussia, the only German officials were an old captain--retired on account of bad health--who was postmaster, and the exciseman. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. Whether it was because it was a rule that a second discharge should be final, or that his failure to move Parliament had made him a scapegoat for the disappointed excisemen, his petition was rejected. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z From his glorious dreams of marble halls the exciseman awoke; wonderingly he opened his eyes and looked around. About London The farm was given up, and he soon depended entirely upon his seventy pounds a year, the pay of an exciseman. Home Life of Great Authors Even while waiting impatiently the coming of his wife, he had been contributing to Johnson's Museum, and he fondly imagined that he was going to be farmer, poet, and exciseman all in one. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series Generally, the exciseman arrived there before the captain, who would find him smoking his pipe over his jug of beer. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. 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. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z He seemed too—but perhaps fancy misled me—as if care-worn and dejected; pained, perhaps, that not one among so many of the great should have humility enough to notice a poor exciseman. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative He qualified as an exciseman, acquiring in this employment a grasp of finance and an interest in budgets of which he afterwards made good use in his writings. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle It was inevitable that one whose district as an exciseman reached far and wide could not regularly attend to ploughing, sowing, and reaping, and the farm was very often left to the care of servants. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series Only the amateurs were left, looking at each other, almost with tears in their eyes, the exciseman saying, "Oh, dear me! how very much I do feel a thing of this sort!" The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The excisemen, angry at the failure to get their case before Parliament, and having fixed on Paine as their scapegoat, all other iniquities were naturally laid on him. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z And you, my little Two-to-the-Pound, what a time it is since we've met, never since the exciseman died, I do believe. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 Reinstated as a "gauger," he was eventually dismissed for writing a pamphlet in defence of the excisemen's agitation for higher wages. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle As farmer, exciseman, and poet he had tried too much, and even a man of his great capacity for work was bound to have succumbed under the strain. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series 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. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 No sooner was it known that the hope of an increased salary for the exciseman had failed than he found himself in danger of arrest for debt. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z So he leased a farm at Ellisland in Dumfriesshire, and obtained an appointment from the Board of Excise: then, poet, farmer, and exciseman, he went back to Mauchline and was married to Jean. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 On that account, Robert Burns was glad to secure the stipend of fifty pounds a year to which he became entitled on his appointment as exciseman in 1788. Heart of the Blue Ridge A voter was often in search of the place of a 'tidewaiter'; and, as we know, the greatest poet of the day could only be rewarded by making him an exciseman. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Dominic, beside himself and unnerved with the night's carouse, grappled with the exciseman and tried to throttle him. Where Deep Seas Moan Yet in his rubbish there is one realistic story of tramp-life which incidentally portrays an exciseman of the time. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z A model exciseman, he was neither a model nor a prosperous farmer, for here as elsewhere, mother earth was an unkind stepmother to him. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 In vain the excisemen insisted that it was not their business. Jonah and Co. One would imagine her a plump, buxom widow, “fat, fair, and forty,” with her dear little boy, “the only pledge of her deceased exciseman,” or say something between thirty and forty years old. Bardell v. Pickwick The exciseman dismounted, groped for the lantern, lit it, and fought his way half down the cliff, at the risk of his life, as the wind had changed and was blowing out to sea. Where Deep Seas Moan While Paine was in London, trying to get before Parliament a measure for the relief of excisemen, he not only enjoyed the friendship of Goldsmith, but that of Franklin. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z By Dashwood's scheme farmers were liable to have the privacy of their homes invaded by the visits of excisemen. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration At this period he had first exercised his talents as a writer by drawing up a pamphlet recommending the advance of the salaries of excisemen. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 Had he done so, he would have learned of the drunken exciseman who met his death by being knocked on the head with a quart pot. Bardell v. Pickwick Le Mierre saw the figure of a well known exciseman riding a powerful black horse. Where Deep Seas Moan The discharged and insulted postmaster could sympathize with the dismissed and starving exciseman. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z It is a tale of private life, and only varied by the perilous exploits of smugglers and excisemen. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) He had obtained an appointment as exciseman, but was dismissed from his office, and emigrated to America in 1774. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 “Stand aside, exciseman!” said he, in a commanding voice. Japhet in Search of a Father Never once yet had the excisemen appeared within miles of the Haunted House. Where Deep Seas Moan Under pressure of two great hungers—for bread, for science—the young exciseman took little interest in politics. 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 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z No excisemen watching on the cliffs gave more than a single glance at “Israel’s Tabernacle,” as, without the least irreverence, he had named his boat. The Dew of Their Youth Nothing will be able to resist the inquisitorial exciseman. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I Government functionaries he hated, almost as the Irish hate excisemen. Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States 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. The McBrides A Romance of Arran Naval officers are not expected to be excisemen. The Rival Crusoes Smugglers, privateersmen, the sweepings of ports, home and foreign, some who had blood on their hands—though with the distinction that it had been shed in encounters with excisemen. The Dew of Their Youth Jem Hathaway, the exciseman, had in nothing exaggerated the magnificence of our young Londoner. Town Versus Country Meg Merrilies led them through the wood of Warroch, along the same path by which Harry had been carried on the night of the exciseman's murder. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Having arrived there, you will appear to break from me after a struggle, and run as hard as you can towards the north in the direction of the excisemen. Patsy You are one of the fellows who made their escape from the excisemen; but you are not going to do so from us; so yield at once! The Rival Crusoes But he petitioned Government that Israel should have a concession of that part of the foreshore—being against all smuggling and maybe thinking to have him as a sort of spiritual exciseman. The Dew of Their Youth Why, sir, there 's the constable, Mr. Gage the exciseman, the hunch-backed barber, and two or three other gentlemen. The Beaux-Stratagem Ultimately, as we shall see, the exciseman's work told heavily against his farming, his poetry, and his habits of life. Robert Burns It is for the sake of such as you that His Majesty's officers must be treated like huckstering excisemen by every dirty Scot who owns as much ground as a cow can turn round in! Patsy The exciseman was to their view precisely what Dr. Johnson had defined him in his dictionary: "an odious wretch, employed to collect an unjust tax." Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 There’s not a cruiser there to interfere with us, or an exciseman that we can’t square. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 I hear by report, without sufficient authority, that it's the M'Grigors come with a party, proclaimed the Pretender, tore the exciseman's book, and went away. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. They were in great part Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, a religious and warlike race to whom the hatred of an exciseman was a tradition of their forefathers. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII Whitefoot growled at the word "exciseman," showing a set of firm white teeth under a black bristly lip turned up wickedly at the corners. Patsy Once he made an exciseman run several miles after him, to take away a keg of yeast he was a-carrying to Ditchling! Highways and Byways in Sussex The exciseman tried to catch him, and gave chase, but he lost sight of the Jew in the yard. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Here in this valley, companioned with his own starry thoughts, he walked and rode, happy in his fellowship with Nature, even though poverty made him an exciseman at fifty pounds a year. The Heather-Moon The work had to be great, puzzling, and amazing to all beholders, for as the Wiltshire story-teller adds, "he had let an exciseman slip through his fingers." Stonehenge Today and Yesterday The wily exciseman, knowing well on which side his bread was buttered, had generally made his pact with the "runners." Patsy Well can I believe that Mrs. White has been an exciseman’s daughter, and I am convinced also that Mr. White’s extraction is very low. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle When the exciseman saw the empty bed he cried with an angry oath: "Here's the nest—still warm; but the bird's awa'!" Up in Ardmuirland In any case, he changed his mind in time, and was again taken on as exciseman. Greenwich Village It was then that the prompt ingenuity of the people was fully seen, felt, and understood by the baffled exciseman, who too often had just grounds for bitterly cursing their talent at outwitting him. Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three "Stand aside, exciseman!" said he, in a commanding voice. Japhet, in Search of a Father There was much friction in the first year of the Union over excisemen and tax-collectors: smuggling began to be a recognised profession. A Short History of Scotland The legislators who framed the ancient republics knew that their business was too arduous to be accomplished with no better apparatus than the metaphysics of an undergraduate and the mathematics and arithmetic of an exciseman. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Then he became an exciseman—what was sometimes called "gauger"—and was speedily cashiered for negligence. Greenwich Village And Henry Bishoprick, a wise man, Who acted druggist and exciseman, And seized at loaded pistol's muzzle Contrabandistas, who could puzzle An ordinary Gager's cunning When tea and whiskey they were running. Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants So singular a story had on its side the usual number of votes from the company, till, upon cross-examination, it was explained that the principal person concerned was an exciseman. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft The exciseman had jumped to his feet at Donald's first outburst. Stories of the Border Marches 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. Political Pamphlets Finding it impossible to make a living for his increasing family as a farmer, he obtained through friends the place of exciseman for the surrounding region. Selections from Five English Poets And in our own time it is told of an Irish exciseman with a keg of smuggled whisky. The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies I am no exciseman, to pry into wardrobes and secret repositories, but one whose duty it is to act only on the high seas, and against the more open violators of the law. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas "I'm not here to argue with you," cried the exciseman, getting impatient. Stories of the Border Marches There is an army employed in Ireland to go with the excisemen and other taxers to make the people pay. Political Pamphlets The following year he came near losing his place through an act of indiscretion which proved him to be more poet than exciseman. Selections from Five English Poets So I entered the establishment with an eye of as keen a speculation as an exciseman’s searching a building for illicit distillery, and I came out of it a more charitable and contented man. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's "What is that you say!" said the exciseman.... The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 547, May 19, 1832 The exciseman's horse still stood where his master had left him, hitched to a rowan tree a few yards from the door. Stories of the Border Marches Between these two characters sat the exciseman, with a pipe in one hand, and a tankard in the other. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) Of such sympathy Captain Wilde had none; for to the great majority he was known only as the exciseman, and as such was an object of hostility. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 He ascribes this immunity mainly to the vigilance of the excisemen. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Leaving the sea, he became an exciseman, but retained his commission for only a year. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain The very tall young man is conscious of this failing in himself; and informs his comrade that it's his 'exciseman.' Dombey and Son The parson, the schoolmaster, the exciseman, and his own wife, questioned him over and over again. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) 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. The Bride of Lammermoor They mostly accompanied an 'inkpot,' called from its users an 'exciseman.' The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced Again appointed an exciseman, he was stationed at Lewes in Sussex, where he wrote poetry and acquired some local celebrity as a writer. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain The very tall young man has recovered his spirits, and again alludes to the exciseman. Dombey and Son As in the case of the exciseman, the warnings were too late. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) The deuce of the matter is this—when an exciseman is off duty, his salary is reduced to £35 instead of £50. The Letters of Robert Burns They had not been long together before they entered into a discourse on small tithes, which continued a full hour, without the doctor or exciseman's having one opportunity to offer a word. Joseph Andrews Vol 1 I remember a young fellow whom he promised his parents to make an exciseman. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 Ye might have taken me to where excisemen or others would have wanted to pry and peep, and so endangered my commission. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 It began with the parson, and was taken up by the schoolmaster, the exciseman, the landlady, and the landlord, in succession. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829) He failed in the shop, was separated from his wife, and dismissed from his office as exciseman. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Well, I have known wiser heads, to reward a poet, make him an exciseman. Tales and Novels — Volume 08 She had long entertained hopes of seeing her eldest daughter succeed Mrs Slipslop, and of making her second son an exciseman by Lady Booby's interest. Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 "Rent paid by rhymes at Oakly may be great, "But rhymes for taxes would appal the state," Exclaim'd th' exciseman,—"and then tithes, alas! May Day with the Muses Mr. Coleridge had often, in the keenest terms, expressed his contemptuous indignation at the Scotch patrons of the poet, in making him an exciseman! so that something biting was expected. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey He had been a staymaker, a sailor, an exciseman, a teacher, a shopkeeper, and an author, to say nothing of his twofold matrimonial experience. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 In less than an hour the cask of colouring was returned, and the same exciseman who had seized it came to make an apology for his error. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 As I told you in the first place, he was an exciseman; if he was a defaulter, that fact is upon the records of Great Britain. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest All the ladies in the neighbourhood spoke to me civilly, the Collector's wife, the lawyer's wife, the Mayoress, the wife of the exciseman, they all, in short, made much of me. The Grip of Desire The year 1781 was one of dolour and tribulation, for Lord Eglesham was shot dead by a poaching exciseman, and Lady Macadam died of paralysis; but the year after was one of greater lamentation. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction He was made an exciseman or gauger, at a salary of £50 a year, and he followed that occupation for the few remaining years of his life. Halleck's New English Literature He used to recount, with some pleasure, a journey or two which he rode with him as his clerk, and relate the victories that he gained over the excisemen in grammatical disputations. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons The exciseman presented himself as a surety; but he not being an housekeeper, was not accepted. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves But no sooner did he hear the sentiments of the exciseman than he embraced that opportunity of declaring his own, and expressed a hearty wish that such a matter could be brought about. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling One was an exciseman, one an oilman; and one or two were apprentices like himself; but there was also one Thomas Heath, who was actually the Lord Mayor's kinsman. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 A big grocer despises the exciseman; and what in many countries would be thought impossible, the exciseman envies the grocer. The English Constitution Well, we victuallers must not disoblige the excisemen. The Adventures of Roderick Random I wish to God I could see the day, master, when there shall not be a priest, an exciseman, or a custom-house officer in the kingdom. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle "Could be brought about!" says the exciseman: "why, there is nothing easier." History of Tom Jones, a Foundling After a painful climb of half an hour, they emerged on the tableland, not far from one of those little cabins, dug out of the soil itself, which serve as shelters for the excisemen. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin We do not respect a stamp-office clerk, or an exciseman's assistant. The English Constitution Nor did he wait to be attacked, but in June, 1720, hearing of a party of excisemen passing near Dingwall with a large quantity of aqua vitae, he fell upon them and rescued their prize. History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name The exciseman, with a waggish sneer, expressed his apprehension of Trunnion's death, in consequence of which the patereroes might be discharged with an equivocal intent, either as signals of his lady's sorrow or rejoicing. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Why, certainly," replied the exciseman, "I should be a very ill man if I did not honour the king, whose bread I eat. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling The exciseman's wife was hurrying from the farm as fast as she could. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin The professional had indeed effaced the national character, for, living as he did within these frank hospitable people, still only the exciseman appeared, the counterpart of some I had met with in England and France. Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark The legislators who framed the ancient republics knew that their business was too arduous to be accomplished with no better apparatus than the metaphysics of an undergraduate, and the mathematics and arithmetic of an exciseman. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke This way the excisemen followed, and the amble of their horses died quite away. Wessex Tales "Nothing can be more proper," cries the exciseman, pulling his pipe from his mouth. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Oh I Oh!—'I did boil the exciseman!' Stalky & Co. Every exciseman, every collector of the customs, who refuses to swear, is to be deprived of his bread. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 The piece went off in the awkward hands of the poor parson, and very nearly shot one' of the excisemen. Guy Mannering ‘I would not venture to offend the neighbours so much as that,’ said she, ‘or do anything that would be so likely to put poor Owlett into the hands of the excisemen.’ Wessex Tales 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. Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Relieve us of all these extortions and of the excisemen; we are great sufferers through all these devices; now is the time to change them; never shall we be happy as long as these last. The Ancient Regime Dundas made Burns an exciseman, with seventy pounds a year; and this was more than Pitt, during his long tenure of power, did for the encouragement of letters. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Yet more significant, the royal house was jointly occupied by the imperial exciseman, and all his corps of assistants, registrars, collectors, publicans, informers, and spies. Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ But still these indefatigable excisemen discovered nothing more than the original tell-tale smell in the road opposite Lizzy’s house, which even yet had not passed off. Wessex Tales My guide, who has a holy horror of excisemen and the police, stayed above on the cliff, because of a little coastguard station posted like a watchman on the shore. The Nabob In Brittany "lots of gentlemen found as excisemen, on the farms or in the lowest occupations." The Ancient Regime On the other hand, suppose the one o'clock trip is held up by an exciseman. The Pit Prop Syndicate Monks, friars, pilgrims, palmers, soldiers, excisemen, provost-marshals and men, and mere bad debtors, how can 'The White Hart' butt against all these? The Cloister and the Hearth They could hear the excisemen sniffing the air like hounds as they paced slowly along. Wessex Tales There was nothing minded but the riding of cadgers by day, and excisemen by night—and battles between the smugglers and the king's men, both by sea and land. The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder "The matter is," replied D'Artagnan, "that I can see upon this pier neither inspector nor sentinel nor exciseman." Twenty Years After The excisemen were still busy in the orchard, and at last he was tempted to enter, and watch their proceedings. Wessex Tales As the goods had all to be carried to Budmouth that night, the excisemen’s next object was to find horses and carts for the journey, and they went about the village for that purpose. Wessex Tales The excisemen looked up at Stockdale’s fair and downy countenance, and evidently thinking him above suspicion, went on with their work again. Wessex Tales Words passed, and the exciseman shot my lord. The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder The king’s excisemen can’t get the carts ready nohow at all! Wessex Tales ‘But if those excisemen had got off with the tubs, half the people in the parish would have been in want for the next month or two.’ Wessex Tales Those four poor excisemen may be murdered for all I know.’ Wessex Tales When they reached the turnpike-road she turned to the right, and he soon perceived that they were following the direction of the excisemen and their load. Wessex Tales Of all the manifold ills in the train of smuggling, surely the excisemen are the worst, and the setting of this rabiator over us was a severe judgment for our sins. The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder The excisemen, having re-entered the orchard, acted as if they were positive that here lay hidden the rest of the tubs, which they were determined to find before nightfall. Wessex Tales Under the site of the tree a square hole was revealed, and an exciseman went and looked down. Wessex Tales He himself, like the excisemen, had been wondering for the last half-hour what could have become of them. Wessex Tales I only went to-night to burn the folks off, because we found that the excisemen knew where the tubs were to be landed.’ Wessex Tales Mungo Argyle, the exciseman, waxing rich, grew proud and petulant, and would have ruled the country side with a rod of iron. The Annals of the Parish; or, the chronicle of Dalmailing during the ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder When Latimer had done speaking he went on in this direction, and Hardman, hearing the exciseman’s steps, found curiosity too strong for prudence. Wessex Tales |
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