I know not how the word exciseman, or still more opprobrious, gauger, will sound in your ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference

"I know not," he writes, "how the word exciseman, or the still (p.  104) more opprobrious gauger, will sound in your ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Burns] Reference

The very tall young man is conscious of this failing in himself; and informs his comrade that it's his 'exciseman'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Certain Types of Humour.] Reference

Whitefoot growled at the word "exciseman," showing a set of firm white teeth under a black bristly lip turned up wickedly at the corners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patsy] Reference

'Why don't you turn him out?' exclaimed the exciseman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829)] Reference

‘Poor Will Latimer the exciseman!’ said one plaintively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wessex Tales] Reference

Here the exciseman broke silence, by ejaculating, 'Red again!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829)] Reference

The exciseman had jumped to his feet at Donald's first outburst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

A young man at the door -- the same exciseman, Gilchrist, that trotted at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference

"I'm not here to argue with you," cried the exciseman, getting impatient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference

The exciseman tried to catch him, and gave chase, but he lost sight of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

They mostly accompanied an 'inkpot,' called from its users an 'exciseman.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens With a Description of the Manufacturing Process by Which They Are Produced] Reference

Le Mierre saw the figure of a well known exciseman riding a powerful black horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference

'Rather odd,' said the stranger, seating himself between the parson and the exciseman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829)] Reference

The very tall young man has recovered his spirits, and again alludes to the exciseman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dombey and Son] Reference

I wish that horrid Sir John Todcaster had not begun his story of the exciseman, for Lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fitz-Boodle Papers] Reference

Under the site of the tree a square hole was revealed, and an exciseman went and looked down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wessex Tales] Reference

'Did you observe his hair hanging down his back like a bunch of carrots?' asked the exciseman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829)] Reference

He failed in the shop, was separated from his wife, and dismissed from his office as exciseman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference

The exciseman presented himself as a surety; but he not being an housekeeper, was not accepted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference

The parson, the schoolmaster, the exciseman, and his own wife, questioned him over and over again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829)] Reference

Why, sir, there 's the constable, Mr. Gage the exciseman, the hunch-backed barber, and two or three other gentlemen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference

Dominic, beside himself and unnerved with the night's carouse, grappled with the exciseman and tried to throttle him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference

An exciseman, overtaken by night, went to a house called Ty Felin, in the parish of Llanynys, and asked for lodgings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference

Another time as he was a-going up New Bostall, an exciseman, who knew him of old, saw him a-carrying a tub of hollands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference

If so, it is quite possible that his famous poetic idea came to him one day while fishing, perhaps with a brother exciseman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

There stood I, visible to all, and the sight produced a yell, in which the epithets of "spy, exciseman, custom-house shark," and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, a religious and warlike race to whom the hatred of an exciseman was a tradition of their forefathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

I think I see a petty English exciseman receive more homage and respect than what was paid formerly to their quondam Mackallamores.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference

 It began innocently enough when the exciseman, Mr. Calabash, arrived in town to account for what we owed the Crown this year in duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rev. Jasper Pickery and Three Manifestations of the Devil] Reference

The combat between the smuggler and the exciseman was executed with particular zeal and spirit, Sir Toady Lion prancing and curvetting, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

"Stand aside, exciseman!" said he, in a commanding voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japhet in Search of a Father] Reference

Nothing will be able to resist the inquisitorial exciseman.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)] Reference

The joys of vengeance were depicted on the features of the exciseman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Lestweithel; where Mr. Skinnygauge, the exciseman, was in his honeymoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts] Reference

There's not a cruiser there to interfere with us, or an exciseman that we can't square.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798] Reference