In prehistoric times there were no taxcollectors, so perhaps the hunter-gatherer is a nice reference point. From Wordnik.com. [European Productivity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
If a signature gatherer is posted outside my local grocery store, my signature could be revealed to my neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [McKenna’s SCOTUS Brief is Poorly Written « PubliCola] Reference
Actually, Pinker thinks that what makes market pricing post-hunter-gatherer is that it requires mathematical reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The signatures are piled up in order, and a "gatherer" collects one from each pile for every book. From Wordnik.com. [Makers of Many Things] Reference
"gatherer" snatched him up and twirled him around his arm. From Wordnik.com. [I Married a Ranger] Reference
It activates the hunter-gatherer module differently. From Wordnik.com. [William Gibson: 'I'm agnostic about technology. But I want a robotic penguin'] Reference
"Let me in, boys, for I am somewhat of a news-gatherer myself.". From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
We want you to believe us, even if you're a rival news gatherer. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Wise's twitter hoax] Reference
"Now the gatherer of the clouds," he says, in telling his story. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Several years ago Claude Luckado, a professional pecan gatherer of. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930] Reference
The herb-gatherer smacked her lips and sniffed the air expectantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Whose occupation was that of a toll-gatherer, was born at Nazareth. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
Doth not the substance of our bitter toiling go to the tax-gatherer?. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
Mateo was an indefatigable news-gatherer, and an incorrigible gossip. From Wordnik.com. [Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos] Reference
Phoebe was a good deal cheered by the message of the old herb gatherer. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Memory, the faithful mirror, forbade the relic gatherer ever to forget!. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
The gatherer goes about thrusting his rod into the earth at intervals of. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The tax-gatherer and recruiting officer begin to make their way into the hills. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
We all tend to eat far more fat, salt and sugar than our hunter-gatherer ancestors. From Wordnik.com. [One Man's Meat] Reference
"That tax-gatherer who bought me out knew ways to get out of paying the Temple tax!". From Wordnik.com. [Men Called Him Master] Reference
One young man, a news-gatherer, could get nothing as all things lay distant and for others. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
There was once an herb-gatherer who had three daughters who earned their living by spinning. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Popular Tales] Reference
Our hunter-gatherer days, when these beauty-oriented aspects of our psyches formed, are over. From Wordnik.com. [Eyes Of The Beholders] Reference
Humphrey says he's always been a "hunter-gatherer" who used to be inspired by printed images. From Wordnik.com. [A Painter's Pixel Palette] Reference
In this proverb the gain of usury is classed with unjust gain that shall not bless the gatherer. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
The beautiful forest constitutes the world of the nutmeg-gatherer, both for labour and recreation. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
These qualities are not usually found in company with those which make a successful news-gatherer. From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
On Friday, another mushroom gatherer was found dead in Valgerola after his family raised the alarm. From Wordnik.com. [Italian mountain mushrooms claim lives] Reference
To show that Humboldt was not a mere fact-gatherer, we select one incident out of many in his early life. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
The branch had split, drooping downward, and the adventurous grape-gatherer had been cast into the water. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
Today the toll-gatherer, he who collects the small fee from the stall-owners, is still known as the Abbé. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
The poet Wordsworth introduces us to an old leech-gatherer lamenting the scarcity of the animals in the following lines. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
Only small and primitive hunter-gatherer tribes, the assumption went, could ever have eked out a living in an unforgiving environment. From Wordnik.com. [Scientists find evidence discrediting theory Amazon was virtually unlivable] Reference
The journey from the days of our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the modern obesity epidemic -- and precocious puberty -- is a complex one. From Wordnik.com. [Spencer Wells: Calories and Consequences] Reference
Rubens was the most conscientious coin and medal gatherer of his time, and applied them sedulously to the furtherance of his divine gifts. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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