tollkeeper

But several times that night, when a waggon or other vehicle came through, and the driver asked the tollkeeper 'What news?'

They had been drinking heavily at Croxton races, and understandably the tollkeeper asked to be paid before he opened the gate for them.

The tollkeeper, Hannah Oliver, had been strangled, and the vital clue was her missing red shoes.

In the 18th century, Electorate of the Palatinate posted the local tollkeeper who collected the road tolls.

Like a thousand coachmen before him, he swore as he fished in his pocket for the coins to pay the tollkeeper.

He asked the tollkeeper if he had ever heard of Jackey Jackey.

"Is not that," said the tollkeeper, "the Mr. Mendelssohn whose music we sing at our Society?"

The Inner Holsten Tor was connected to the dwelling of the tollkeeper, who guarded the access to the city at this location.

Along that road, Mr. Messer is our signalman, our tollkeeper and in the discreetest way our guide.

The road's first tollkeeper, Robert Collins, would later guide Arnold Guyot on surveying expeditions across the crest of the Smokies.

The half-timbered gate was replaced by a simple iron gate in 1794, which in turn was demolished in 1828, together with the tollkeeper's house and the city wall along the Trave River.

Sadly for him some repairs were underway, and ladders, brushes and pots of red paint were lying nearby; the Marquess and his cronies seized these and attacked the tollkeeper, painting him and a constable who intervened red.

In retaliation, Siegel said, he heard that some Harvards sneaked into a Brown anatomy lab and stole an arm from a cadaver, went back up I-95, put a quarter for the toll in the hand of their acquisition, and left the amazed tollkeeper holding the unattached limb.