Dutchman, 'would it not be a kindly grass to Captain Venables to chuck the gauger down the Black Drop ere he come?
His guards were laughing and joking together, and giving little heed to their charge, but the gauger was keen enough, for I saw his hand close over it.
This night we had news that this very gauger was coming this way, little knowing that we should be on the look-out for him.
We cannot hang the gauger until Venables brings up the Fairy Queen, for after all it was one of his hands that was snackled.
Gauger or no, you must jump for it, since you know the secret of our cave.
Yes, it is Gauger Westhouse,' said the man calmly, giving his neck a wriggle as though he were in pain.
But then the fear of being called in question for the murder of the gauger may make them silent; or, if they speak, they are either foreigners or outlawed smugglers.
There is woe before him and behind him; he is hand and glove with misery by prescription,--the ex officio gauger of the ills that flesh is heir to.
In those times no revenue officer durst exercise vigilance west of the Tamar, and, to put an end at once to all such surveillance, the head of a gauger was chopped off by one of Coppinger’s gang, on the gunwale of a boat.
II - A SONG OF THE ROAD The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY?
If you are fanciful, you will be reminded of the gauger in the story.
Early in January, 1839, Hawthorne took up his new duties as weigher and gauger in the Boston Custom House.
They are such smuggling blackguards, that they must run in their very music; but I'll sort them waur than ony gauger in the country.
The gauger always liked to tell stories that were not always fit for a boy to hear, but the Doctor soon led him to a different subject.
They had calculated that the gauger had drunk, during his life-time, seventy butts of wine; but he asserted that they had been very tender to him, for he had drunk a great deal more than that.
The gauger always carried with him some flour bread, which he called his "little sponge.
The Gauger and the Burgomaster were amused with Claus's complaints and fierce invectives, his jokes and wise sayings, and supplied him with liquor.
We heard that he went back to Redlintie a curran years after, but both the gauger and his wife were dead, and I ken that he didna trouble the twa daughters.
A SONG OF THE ROAD The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye thegauger played the flute: And what should Master Gauger play But OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY?
The gauger was cast, and my master won the bet, and thought he'd won a hundred guineas, but by the wording it was adjudged to be only a tester that was his due by the exciseman.
II A SONG OF THE ROAD The gauger walked with willing foot, And aye the gauger played the flute; And what should Master Gauger play But Over the hills and far away?
A SONG OF THE ROAD 67 The gauger walked with willing foot III.
Well, it's all the same--a gauger and a revenue officer are brothers' children.
Does she travel under an Elias, as Gregory theGauger calls it?
Sprague was entertaining the Gauger with a poem which he had been reciting at intervals ever since we met him.
Gregory the Gauger had stopped thumping and everything was very pleasant and restful after the jail, and the other exciting events of the night.
Mr. Daddles and Sprague jumped on board, and Pete handed Gregory theGauger up to them.
Gregory the Gaugerwas disposed to grumble at being set ashore.
Eb and Gregory the Gauger wished to enter the house, "an' go over it to see if it's all right.
Richardson told Forester that they expected a visit in a few hours from the gauger and the supervisor, and that they were preparing for their reception.
Genius, Poet; what these words mean George the Third, head charioteer of England; and Robert Burns, gauger of ale in Dumfries.
Can he do nothing for his Burns but make a Gauger of him; lionise him, bedinner him, for a foolish while; then whistle him down the wind, to desperation and bitter death?
This person was the gauger of the district, a bachelor and a man of considerable wealth, got together, it is suspected, by practices that were not well capable of bearing the light.
Having thrown out these hints to our readers, we beg them to accompany us once more to the parlor of Clinton the gauger and his nephew.
Grammar, my worthy friend, is banished as an intruder from your elocution, just as you would exclude a gauger from your Still-house.
Just after you had gone the gauger came in and requested that a party might accompany him at three o'clock this morning to hunt up a still among the hills.
I belong to the detachment in Ballyporrit, and of course if the gauger calls upon us we must march out and aid him in seizing a still.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gauger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: assessor; gauge; instrument; measure; meter; surveyor; topographer
