And he was the honestest Root-gatherer that ever brought foreign flowers into the Earthly Paradise.
Suddenly, Pwit-Pwit, the Sparrow gossip and news-gatherer for all the Menial People, fluttered down at her feet.
And of a truth this is meet, for is not the sparrow official news-gatherer and gossip for all the Menial People?
When it has been brought back, both the Tithe-gatherer and manager again enter its weight in their books.
But in the case of a mine which is yielding metal, the Tithe-gatherer pays the mine manager week by week as much money as suffices to discharge the workmen's wages and to provide the necessary implements for mining.
He was a tax-gatherer and ex-soldier of the city, named Don Miguel de Servantes Saavedra.
Some of the citizens took his side, for there was a feud between the civil and ecclesiastical authorities of Seville, and the tax-gatherer had merely shown public spirit.
But his hand shook as though he were in a violent fever, and the mussel-gatherer placed it on the table beside his own, in front of the boy.
The Brazilian name for a rubbergatherer is “seringuero.
Pearl, whose activity of spirit never flagged, had been at no loss for amusement while her mother talked with the old gatherer of herbs.
Keep a sharp look-out," said the captain, and the man uttered a growl.
So dark was it that it was hard to distinguish the outlines, and to trace where the figure went, while its movements were so silent that the two watchers saw nothing.
The tax-gatherer looked through the window, and bade his wife undo the barrier.
The tax-gatherer took the prescribed coins from them, and pointed out their ill-treatment of the animals.
The lean tax-gatherer sat in a corner of his room and saw the dust fly from the ceiling, which seemed to shake beneath the clatter.
Without answering him, the tax-gatherer said: "I am a publican, and blessed with mistrust as far as my eye can reach.
The tax-gatherer began to tremble so that the tray nearly fell from his hands.
A lean old man, a tax-gatherer from Jerusalem, asked what he should do, since everyone he met in the streets had a coat on his back.
The tax-gatherer gave the speaker an approving glance, and sighed.
Had you any interviews with Mr. Gatherer on the subject?
And you go before Mr. Gatherer the superintendent, and receive your wages in cash?
I intend to call Mr. Gatherer to prove that but you have come forward in order to contradict Mr. Hamilton's report, and the question I asked is, in what way do your books prove that no such orders have been honoured since 1867?
Mr. Gatherer will prove that since 1867 the men have got their wages paid down to them in money.
A wood-gatherer and fire-maker; what extraordinary things a girl was forced to become at an orphan asylum!
I am only a wood- gatherer at present, but pretty soon I shall be a real fire-maker, for I have already been working for two months.
When she shall have added honesty as a third, the tax-gatherer can desire no better country in which to exercise his calling.
Joseph the Satrap Joseph, the nephew of Onias, a man of resources, was appointed tax-gatherer of the Palestinian lands.
A tax-gatherer was given a military retinue to enforce his claims.
If the native rubber-gatherer were treated as an ordinary labourer and paid a due wage, it is safe to say that it would not pay to gather wild rubber at all, or only by increasing its price in the world's market very considerably.
In peaceful times and in an ordinary state of affairs, it may be admitted that the tax-gatherer is an unwelcome visitant.
Temples had been built in his honour and horrible human sacrifices offered to appease him, for was he not the Ruler of the Winds, the Lord of the Lightning, the Gatherer of the Clouds?
If we cannot enrich the Alms-Gatherer with a gift, we will at least try to pay him for his powder; we promise solemnly that the bear killed this day in the wood shall suffice the cloister kitchen for two years.
An old Lithuanian proverb says: ‘As lucky a man as an alms-gatherer in Niehrymow.
Illustration: Pearl on the Sea-Shore] Pearl, whose activity of spirit never flagged, had been at no loss for amusement while her mother talked with the old gatherer of herbs.
Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled sea-weed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs.
Probably in his directions to the tax-gatherer Prior Selling did not forget old enemies of the convent.
The bondage under which they lay to the sheriff[416] and tax-gatherer could only be broken when they were given full powers to assess and collect all their own taxes.
No doubt in many cases the population found that the barbarian was a worse infliction even than the tax-gatherer and the slave-driver.
He now led them up to where a gatherer stood at one of the working-holes of the furnace.
The gatherercollects a lump on his pipe, cools it a little, and collects more until he has enough.
For about noon he went down to the place where one Matthew a tax-gatherer was sitting at the house of customs near the quay.
All land paid tithe to the State; and until the tax-gatherer had paid his visit it was not permitted to the peasant to cut the ripe crop.
They could have borne the visits of the tax-gatherer and the lists of conscription; they could not bear that their priests should be overruled, or that their observances should be limited to those sufficient for ordinary Catholics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gatherer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: collector; connoisseur; farmer; magpie; miser
