tax-gatherer

She prosecuted her trade too with every attention to its diminished income; shut up the windows of one half of her house, to baffle the tax-gatherer; retrenched her furniture; discharged her pair of post-horses, and pensioned off the old humpbacked postilion who drove them, retaining his services, however, as an assistant to a still more aged hostler.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

Church shall be considered as a tax-gatherer or a Pagan; we ought, therefore, to listen to the Church that we may not be disgraced and hated like the farmers-general.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

One, which served in winter, and the only one he reported to the tax-gatherer, was the coucou which he inherited from his father.

A Start in Life 2007

Do not most people consider the tax-gatherer the natural enemy?

The Virginians 2006

If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, “But what shall I do?” my answer is, “If you really wish to do anything, resign your office.”

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience 2004

He told me, Mandrin was a native of Valencia, of mean extraction: that he had served as a soldier in the army, and afterwards acted as maltotier, or tax-gatherer: that at length he turned contrebandier, or smuggler, and by his superior qualities, raised himself to the command of a formidable gang, consisting of five hundred persons well armed with carbines and pistols.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Indeed, I have reason to suspect myself on this head; and each year, as the tax-gatherer comes round, I find myself disposed to review the acts and position of the general and State governments, and the spirit of the people, to discover a pretext for conformity.

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience 2004

My civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience 2004

But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind.

The Moonstone 2003

He dined in the little room as of yore, but alone, without the tax-gatherer; for Binet, tired of waiting for the

Madame Bovary 2003