But several times that night, when a waggon or other vehicle came through, and the driver asked the tollkeeper ‘What news?’ he looked at the man by the light of his lantern, to assure himself that he had an interest in the subject, and then said, wrapping his watch – coat round his legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
One tollkeeper said the bridge and tollbooths were "shaken as if by an earthquake rather than a hurricane.". From Wordnik.com. [Search for "anxiety"] Reference
What they're doing is clearly anticompetitive … They want one superhighway and they're the tollkeeper on that superhighway. says one potential trigger for an investigation is a concern that changes to the Apple developer agreement could harm advertisers on those devices, and benefit Apple. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0] Reference
The ghostly tollkeeper detects the fraud in an instant and roars out, "So you would cheat me of my dues?. From Wordnik.com. [The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia] Reference
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