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- noun Plural form of
exciseman .
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Examples
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They could hear the excisemen sniffing the air like hounds as they paced slowly along.
Wessex Tales 2006
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The excisemen had, in fact, begun to pile up the tubs on a large stone slab which was fixed there; and when all were brought out from the tower, two or three of the men were left standing by them, the rest of the party again proceeding to the orchard.
Wessex Tales 2006
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‘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.’
Wessex Tales 2006
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He himself, like the excisemen, had been wondering for the last half-hour what could have become of them.
Wessex Tales 2006
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Stockdale did the same, and saw the village lying like a map below him, over which moved the figures of the excisemen, each foreshortened to a crablike object, the crown of his hat forming a circular disc in the centre of him.
Wessex Tales 2006
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‘I would not venture to offend the neighbours so much as that,’ said she, ‘or do anything that would be so likely to put poor Owlett into the hands of the excisemen.’
Wessex Tales 2006
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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.
Wessex Tales 2006
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This way the excisemen followed, and the amble of their horses died quite away.
Wessex Tales 2006
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But still these indefatigable excisemen discovered nothing more than the original tell-tale smell in the road opposite
Wessex Tales 2006
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The excisemen were still busy in the orchard, and at last he was tempted to enter, and watch their proceedings.
Wessex Tales 2006
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