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Meanings of exciseman in English
Catalan
recaptador d'impostos Spanish
recaudador de impuestos Someone who collects taxes for the government.
Usage of exciseman in English
1
The joys of vengeance were depicted on the features of the exciseman.
2
When the exciseman saw the empty bed he cried with an angry oath:
3
The exciseman's wife was hurrying from the farm as fast as she could.
4
The exciseman had jumped to his feet at Donald's first outburst.
5
We do not respect a stamp-office clerk, or an exciseman's assistant.
6
On the other hand, suppose the one o'clock trip is held up by an exciseman.
7
Leaving the sea, he became an exciseman, but retained his commission for only a year.
8
Ambition makes of gentlemen time-servers and paltry politicians; of the plowman-poet it made an exciseman!
9
In any case, he changed his mind in time, and was again taken on as exciseman.
10
The exciseman presented himself as a surety; but he not being an housekeeper, was not accepted.
11
Words passed, and the exciseman shot my lord.
12
The next year he was appointed exciseman, i.e.
13
Then he became an exciseman-whatwas sometimes called "gauger"-andwas speedily cashiered for negligence.
14
Burns was a poor man from birth, and an exciseman by necessity; but- Iwillsay it!
15
There's not a cruiser there to interfere with us, or an exciseman that we can't square.
16
He failed in the shop, was separated from his wife, and dismissed from his office as exciseman.
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Exciseman through the time