Government office building for import and export of goods.
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Examples for "custom house "
1 The general duties now levied in the custom house , are the following:
2 In the custom house a lieutenant, very thin and military, questioned us.
3 Passing in front of the great grey darkness of the custom house .
4 A frightened clerk appeared now at the doorway of the custom house .
5 A party of them came down King Street toward the custom house .
1 Westwards of the landing-place, where is the customs house , lies James Town.
2 The customs house used to play a different melody a few years ago.
3 Go back to the customs house , to the stage coach.
4 There are a few pretentious public buildings, including the customs house , hospital and college.
5 Spiro rolled into the customs house like an angry bear.
6 Do you mean to pretend you stayed at the customs house until just now?
7 But the miniature barrack and the quaint stone customs house both were wrapt in gloom and darkness.
8 The first of the family is said to have been Policarpio Ochoa, an employé of the Spanish customs house .
9 The donkey took her into an unfamiliar sector of the city, a sad and abandoned-looking structure behind the customs house .
10 At the head of place d'Youville, I turned onto a small side street, and parked opposite the old customs house .
11 Beside the pistachio-coloured customs house , the red, gold and green bands of the Bolivian flag droop in the rising windless heat.
12 A knife-edge icy wind blew from the north-east and kept the lanyards dismally flapping on the flag-mast over the customs house .
13 He remembers the British army helicopters landing in his neighbours' fields, the stories of shootings at the customs house , and the smuggling.
14 Immediately at the exit of the last tunnel is Osteria la Muda, originally a customs house and inn that dates back to 1400.
15 All our personal baggage had long since mysteriously disappeared, ravished away from us at the customs house by a ragged horde of blacks.
16 The river boats land their passengers at a rickety wooden wharf, and Indians carry the baggage on their heads into the dingy customs house .
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