But Joan was forbidding of late months, and especially of late weeks, and the exciseman had always told himself sadly that the right moment had not yet come.
The exciseman good-naturedly taught him how to test the strength of the beer, and Hieronymus was as pleased as though he had learned some great secret of the universe, or unearthed some long-forgotten fact in history.
So he promised secrecy, and then followed the exciseman to the door, and watched him mount his horse and ride off.
Hieronymus, as he drew a chair to the fireside and welcomed the exciseman to it.
Hieronymus was unhappy; the exciseman might or might not be mistaken, but the fact remained that some mischief had been done, inasmuch as David Ellis' feelings were wounded.
Paine was occupied with his laborious duties asexciseman at Lewes, and with the tobacco mill from which he vainly tried to extort a living for himself and wife, and her mother.
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.
Yet in his rubbish there is one realistic story of tramp-life which incidentally portrays an exciseman of the time.
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.
Under pressure of two great hungers--for bread, for science--the young excisemantook little interest in politics.
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 exciseman who pounced on a party of smugglers got a special reward, but he risked his life.
Exciseman Jones had his eye on him; and that was bad for Exciseman Jones.
And so," I said, "Exciseman Jones was true to his word?
Did I ever tell you the story of Dark Dignum and Exciseman Jones?
But the yard remained, and, nighest the seaward edge of it, Exciseman Jones slept in his fearful winding sheet and bided his time.
Now one murk December night Exciseman Jones staggered home with a bloody long slice down his scalp, and the red drip from it spotting the cobble-stones.
By then he was a ramping, roaring devil; but, for all his bold hands were stained with crime, the memory of Exciseman Jones and of his promise dwelled with him and darkened him ever more and more, and never left him.
For there were another body present, though invisible to mortal eye; and that second party were Exciseman Jones, who was hidden up the chimney.
P'r'aps Exciseman Jones's predecessor had failed to secure the confidence o' the exekitive.
And Exciseman Jones was hurried into his grave alongside the church up here.
It would be on these journeys, no doubt, that he came across Daniel Gumb.
These were the visions that soothed and surrounded the worker at his daily toil, and roused and strengthened the energies of the self-sustaining man.
Just then some one lifted the latch, and poor Biddy began to scream: 'O Henry, dear!
The upper spandrels are filled with a Syrian lamb, a pelican with her brood, and the three first letters of the Saviour's name.
Another version of the story says that he was a shoemaker come on business, and that he never made boots for Mr. Arscott again.
So I made up my mind to drop my hammer and step up and ask his name right out.
These would betray us into the hands of fallen angels, and men, nor should we by any means help or deliver ourselves, were it not for one that is higher.
Corrupting the scripture to make it good, but in vain; where thou sayest, That light which every man is lightened withal, will lead unto the kingdom of peace and righteousness.
But if there were anything yet to be done for justification, which was not then done; there could not be an end put to the law for righteousness, for every one that believeth.
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.
The combat between the smuggler and the exciseman was executed with particular zeal and spirit, Sir Toady Lion prancing and curvetting, as Frank Kennedy, on an invisible steed, with Maid Margaret before him on the saddle.
There has been some ill done already, but as it has lighted mostly on the exciseman Morris it will not be muckle worth making a stir about!
The deuce of the matter is this; when anexciseman is off duty, his salary is reduced to 35l.
BURNS was a poor man from birth, and an exciseman by necessity: but I will say it!
So they chatted along quite friendly and chucker[6] like till they came to a cross road, and Nick wished the exciseman good bye.
Once he made an exciseman run several miles after him, to take away a keg of yeast he was a-carrying to Ditchling!
The exciseman couldn't see any cheese, but he could see the image of the full moon on the surface of the canal, and, bursting into a roar of laughter at the silliness of the men, he rode off on his way home.
Generally, the exciseman arrived there before the captain, who would find him smoking his pipe over his jug of beer.
We told him jocosely to give the exciseman no time to take aim at him, by which means he might perhaps hit his adversary first, and thus survive the contest.
The exciseman insisted that snoring at a dinner-table was a personal offence to every gentleman in company, and would therefore make no apology.
Frequency of election duels—Ludicrous affair between Frank Skelton and an exciseman—Frank shoots the exciseman and runs away—His curious reasons—Sir J.
Frequency of election-duels—Ludicrous affair between Frank Skelton and an exciseman—Frank shoots theexciseman and runs away—His curious reasons—Sir J.
The landlady fainted outright: the excisemanfollowed her example: the landlord gasped in an agony of terror: and the schoolmaster uttered a pious ejaculation for the behoof of his soul.
The schoolmaster was equally astounded, and withdrew the pipe from his mouth; that of the exciseman dropped to the ground: the landlord groaned aloud, and his spouse held up her hands in mingled astonishment and awe.
The landlord shrugged his shoulders, the exciseman did the same, the landlady shook her head, the parson exclaimed, 'All red!
On the other side of Achnasheen there was an exciseman waiting to catch William on his way home with four casks of whisky.
Then he lifted his stick and struck the old grey so that he plunged and jumped, and in the scrimmage one of the casks of whisky struck the exciseman and knocked him down on the ground.
The exciseman lay helpless on the ground; so William Roy got clean away with all the whisky, and came home with it to Innis a bhaird.
Burns was a poor man from birth, and an exciseman by necessity; but--I will say it!
The deuce of the matter is this--when an exciseman is off duty, his salary is reduced to £35 instead of £50.
Your name is not Clarke, but Westhouse, or Waterhouse, and you are the same cursed exciseman who snackled our poor comrade, Cooper Dick, and swore away his life at Ilchester.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exciseman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: assessor; collector; connoisseur; customs; farmer; magpie; miser; publican; revenuer
