He availed himself of the fears which his presence inspired on one particular night, when, happening to be ashore with a considerable quantity of goods in his sole custody, a strong party of excisemen came down on him.
Concerning the plea for the excisemen it need only be said that it is as clear and complete as any lawyer could make it.
There was nothing minded but the riding of cadgers by day, and excisemen by night--and battles between the smugglers and the king's men, both by sea and land.
Of all the manifold ills in the train of smuggling, surely the excisemen are the worst, and the setting of this rabiator over us was a severe judgment for our sins.
Composed and sung by the poet at a festive meeting of the excisemen of the Dumfries district.
Well, as I say, in the old days there was a reward of five pounds given by the Excisemen for the discovery of a private still.
Well, your honours, didn't Larry lead the officer and a couple of the Excisemen up the hill in the dark of the early morning, and sure enough they came upon the old still, hid among the heather.
On the ascending corves coming up to the settle-board, the excisemenasked to be sent down after the smugglers, and they were sent down accordingly.
The two smugglers had reached the mouth of a coal-pit and got into the corve-cage with their apparatus, the excisemen only coming up in time to see them descending the shaft, where they were soon out of sight.
And some of these have set the Excisemen on my track, with tales of how it is I that know where you lie hid, and bring you meat and drink.
He availed himself of the fears which presence inspired on one particular night, when, happening to be ashore with a considerable quantity of goods in his sole custody, a strong party of excisemen came down on him.
Kirk and State Excisemen Ye men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering 'Gainst poor Excisemen?
When morning came, and the custom-house was unlocked, the excisemen knew whose handiwork this had been, because Carter was such an honourable man, and none other than himself would have been so scrupulous as to take back only his own.
Thus we have a second, and even more important, necessity for a neighbouring stream, which often, in conjunction with the indispensable fire, serves the excisemen to locate these stills.
Scott tells us how, on one particular night, happening to be ashore with a considerable quantity of goods in his sole custody, a strong party of excisemen came down upon him.
When the excisemen had come to the end of their jollification, they had only the empty cask for their trouble.
Once upon a time, an exciseman at Merthyr Tydvil was overcome by liquor (for excisemen are but men) and fell asleep.
Excisemen are not generally a very popular class of Her Majesty's subjects, and there are many who owe them a grudge.
There is an army employed in Ireland to go with the excisemen and other taxers to make the people pay.
God forbid Scotland should retrograde towards such a state--much better that the Deil, as in Burns's song, danced away with the whole excisemen in the country.
One riding-officer and a few old excisemenhere and there!
The excisemen with him were old hands, and knew how to keep silence, and the dragoons, although they hated this revenue work, were too well disciplined to hazard the failure of the ambuscade.
In order that no suspicion might be engendered in the village, he had not brought his usual assistants, but was accompanied by a posse of excisemen from Newquay, and a half-troop of dragoons from Plymouth.
Excisemen had many enemies; sometimes they lost their lives, not merely in open fight with the smugglers, but by insidious attack.
This was well shown in 1732 when Sir Robert Walpole proposed special excise duties on tobacco, and brought a Bill into Parliament which would have given his excisemen powers of inquisition which were much resented by the people generally.
The excisemen stood reloading the flintlocks, and Gilchrist, in a flutter of fear, gave no orders until the skiffs were offshore and rowing hard for the Gull, waiting with her sails all aback.
Get roon' them, lads, with your pieces ready," and the excisemen made a circle of the smugglers.
His activity in this matter offended the Government and a trivial irregularity commonly practiced by the excisemenwas made a pretext for his dismissal.
Paine espoused the cause of his fellow excisemen and in a memorial addressed to Parliament pleaded for a redress of their grievances.
The excisemen looked up at Stockdale's fair and downy countenance, and evidently thinking him above suspicion, went on with their work again.
But if those excisemen had got off with the tubs, half the people in the parish would have been in want for the next month or two.
Those four poorexcisemen may be murdered for all I know.
They could hear the excisemen sniffing the air like hounds as they paced slowly along.
The excisemen were still busy in the orchard, and at last he was tempted to enter, and watch their proceedings.
I only went to-night to burn the folks off, because we found that the excisemen knew where the tubs were to be landed.
When they reached the turnpike-road she turned to the right, and he soon perceived that they were following the direction of the excisemen and their load.
This way theexcisemen followed, and the amble of their horses died quite away.
The king's excisemen can't get the carts ready nohow at all!
But still these indefatigable excisemen discovered nothing more than the original tell-tale smell in the road opposite Lizzy's house, which even yet had not passed off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "excisemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
