toll-collector

The mutimedia gadget we carried with us enhanced the experience with commentary and interviews which told of his life (amateur artist, fitting in painting round the day job of toll-collector, totally self-taught yet possessing unflinching belief in his ability) his influences, and the artists that he influenced in turn including Max Ernst and Picasso.

Tigers at the Tate Sharon Bakar 2006

It is ludicrous for the illicit toll-collector to argue that if people can learn how to cross the Brooklyn Bridge without paying the illicit toll, then legitimate toll collectors will be at risk.

Boing Boing: January 12, 2003 - January 18, 2003 Archives 2003

We know how he behaved to the toll-collector at Tusculum who asked his pardon; and such was all his behaviour.

The Meditations 2004

We see already posted placards, offering L.500 for the discovery of the actual perpetrator of the murder of the poor toll-collector.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

A marriage is on the _tapis_ between Mr. John Smith, the distinguished toll-collector at the Marsh Gate, and Miss Julia Belinda Snooks, the lovely and accomplished daughter of the gallant out-pensioner of Greenwich

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various

We know how he behaved to the toll-collector at Tusculum who asked his pardon; and such was all his behaviour.

I 1909

We crossed the Oconee on a pontoon bridge, where the fat old ferryman now acts as toll-collector.

The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, 1908

The aged and polite toll-collector smiles and bows at me as I trundle innocently past his sentry-box-like office up the steep incline, hoping that I may take the hint and spare him the necessity of telling me the nature of his duty.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

Thus much the toll-collector said, but when asked if Rugg had appeared again he made no reply.

Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land 1879

The Wesleyans were at one time all-powerful in our road district, and Nicholas, foreseeing a chance of filling an office of profit under the Board, threw away all his sins, and obtained grace and a billet as toll-collector or pikeman.

The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned George Dunderdale 1862