But revenue must be had, and the impost is the best source of revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Partisan Leader: A Novel...] Reference

While they will rise up against a vexatious impost, they crouch before a system of which the impost is the smallest evil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV] Reference

The impost is the highest weight assignment since Favorite Trick received 128 pounds, after being named the 1997 Horse of the Year.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Daily News] Reference

Limestone columns supported the brick arches; the columns were bearing rectangular blocks of the same material, which were being reused as a kind of impost capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Upper Agora Report 3] Reference

For unjust and absurd taxation to which men are accustomed is often borne far more willingly than the most reasonable impost which is new.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference

But it doesn’t say, “Congress shall make no law…” It says flatly that that kind of impost is forbidden.    From Wordnik.com.  [dustbury.com » So used] Reference

It was not merely a tax on improvements, but an impost on being alive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

The impost of twelve pence a chaldron on coals brought into the port of.    From Wordnik.com.  [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference

The Qurán says: "Observe prayer (Salát) and the legal impost (Zakát).".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Islam] Reference

Sir R. Walpole proposed to set apart the proceeds of the impost for his majesty's use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference

After the vaultings have been polished, set the impost mouldings directly beneath them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Shall we suppress the impost and give that advantage to foreign over domestic manufactures?.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Each impost is, as it were, in square-edged layers, each layer overhanging the one below it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

The first fragment is a cornice, or impost, carved on both sides, in three tiers: the upper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath] Reference

An impost on alcohols was established in 1905, and ought to become an important source of revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference

But the county or State should take care of highways and bridges without putting an impost on travel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference

Their piers, behind which is a passage, are square, and the impost moulding is continued as a string.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

There was a custom however, connected with this impost, the origin of which I should be glad to learn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850] Reference

He was going to raise the income tax, he said, the existing impost on incomes of 160 pounds a year and over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference

A charter was granted by which the see should hold its property free from impost, under the protection of the king.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference

The jambs are quite plain, with heavy impost members, slightly hollowed, and a square label, much damaged and defaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

Our revenue under the mild system of impost and tonnage continues to be adequate to all the purposes of the Government.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

They did good indirectly, for they formed one of the strongest arguments in favor of the abolition of that obnoxious impost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

But His Grace calling upon the youngest chorister to repeat his GAMUT, and the "little urchin" failing, the impost was not demanded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850] Reference

He supposed that the impost will not be the only revenue -- the post office he supposes would be another substantial source of revenue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference

Export duty was to be paid on goods shipped to New Spain (Mexico), and this impost was also to be exclusively spent on the armed forces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

The roof-shafts have a curious break in them at the impost-level of the triforium, where a face is carved upon them with a band above it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

In proposing this repeal he censured the Revenue Act only as an inexpedient or unproductive impost, and not as an illegal or impolitic claim.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Ainmireach King of Temoria, he, eluding the pressure of the impost, departed from his own region, that is from the coasts of Midhe, into the territories of the Conactha.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference

Along the walls the arches spring, not from corbels, but from short strings of the same pattern with the impost-moulding on the pillars -- a pattern not of very early character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference

Those which are now reached by the income tax when the holders are residents here should be reached hereafter by an impost on dividends and coupons, according to Mr. Hayes's idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference