excise officer
exciseman BrE old use

Bullock worked as an excise officer for the British government.

Thomas Paine, who was an excise officer in the town.

The Doge's customs and excise officers will never find it.

Bogle was the son of an excise officer also called John.

He bobbed his head politely at the excise officer.

The book was a success, but the excise officers seized and destroyed 400 copies, the last half of the edition.

The dealers have no respite from the continual visits and examination of the excise officers.

He was appointed excise officer in Windsor in 1864.

His father was employed by the Inland Revenue Department as an excise officer.

In about 1715 an excise officer named John Warburton found an altar there, which he removed.

From the time of the brothers' release, Excise officers, protected by an armed guard, monitored the mill around the clock.

Assault on customs and excise officers, etc.

Pielou was born in Glasgow in 1887, the son an excise officer.

His family moved to Cardiff when his father was appointed as a Customs excise officer.

The cistern and the couch-frame had to be constructed in a particular manner, to permit the excise officer to gauge the grain.

You can find further information in Notice 989 Visits by Customs and Excise Officers.

The excise officer measures the amount of fermentable material - malt and other sugars - in the wort.

Before the 19th century, the village coastline was frequented by smugglers, leading to skirmishes between them and excise officers.

Customs and Excise officers handling customs duties at ports, airports and land crossing.

Hostile relations developed between the Mathewses and the Excise officers who regularly inspected their business.

Marienburg also appointed its own excise officers, with the Imperial Tax men merely checking the books.

His father, Joseph Meredith, had been the superintendent of the local excise officers, but he was retired by the time of his son's birth.

The culprit, a 29-year-old excise officer named Francis Smith, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, commuted to one year's hard labour.

She gained employment as nurse to an excise officer recovering from smallpox, John Quick-Manning.

The Excise Academy and Research Centre trains the excise officers.

One of the men, however, easily held down the exciseman while the others made off with the booty.

Burns himself was an exciseman between 1789 and 1796.

The exciseman set out again immediately, in an opposite direction to that which the man who carried the still had taken.

The exciseman had not been lightly built, and Jamie was breathing hard when he reached me.

Robert Burns made his living as an exciseman along that coastline in the late eighteenth century.

The very tall young man has recovered his spirits, and again alludes to the exciseman.

The stills themselves were small so that if the exciseman was spotted they could be removed and hidden.

I helpfully stepped out into the light, displaying the results of my encounter with the exciseman.

"Why did ye think he was an exciseman?"

After graduation he worked as an exciseman.

A dialogue betwixt an exciseman and death.

"Exciseman or no, it seems a peculiar thing to bring with ye to a kittle-hoosie."

For two years Burns worked as both a farmer and an exciseman, having received his excise commission on 14 July 1788.

He worked as an exciseman for the British crown that he sometimes berated at a time when this was a patronage appointment.

He became an exciseman.

Gauger, exciseman.

He was an exciseman and in the course of his travels was able to collect extensive folkore.

Mr. Willoughby shot the exciseman because he thought he was making indecent advances to me."

"This isna an exciseman," Jamie said, still frowning.

"Well, whoever he was, if he wasna an exciseman, there are likely no more of them upstairs.

"And all of them were present on the road at Arbroath, when we were ambushed, and found the exciseman hanged."

But what neither minister nor the exciseman of the 18th century realised was that the underlying cause was lead poisoning.

I havena got any idea who he is, but it's a good thing that he isna an exciseman.

"There was an exciseman."

The very tall young man is conscious of this failing in himself; and informs his comrade that it's his 'exciseman.'