‘You left Mr Pecksniff!’ cried the tollman, folding his arms, and spreading his legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
The tollman looked at his wife, uncertain whether to ask her if she had anything to suggest, or to order her to mind the children. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
After every one of these disclosures, the tollman plunged into his house again, and was seen no more, while the other side went on in great amazement. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
Though if Tom had wanted one at any time, there was not a man or boy in all the village, and away to the turnpike (tollman included), but would have blown away for him till he was black in the face. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
The very tollman, though an ugly chap in general, and one whom folks were rather shy of handling, came out himself to take the toll, and give him rough good morning; and that with all this, and a glimpse of the family breakfast on a little round table before the fire, the crust Tom. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
Windsor chair, inside, set artfully between two little windows that looked up and down the road, so that when he saw anything coming up he might hug himself on having toll to take, and when he saw it going down, might hug himself on having taken it — the tollman was out in an instant. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
It was a simple instrument, 'the sweetest little organ you ever heard,' provided with wind by the action of the musician's feet, and thus Tom was independent of a blower, though he was so beloved that there was not a man or boy in all the village and away to the turnpike (tollman included) but would have blown away for him till he was black in the face. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference
"How much is to pay?" said Mr. George to the tollman, taking out his purse. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in London] Reference
Jim tollman wrote re: Thursday 3 / 12 … Jobless Claims Come in Higher than Expected. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage News Daily - Mortgage And Real Estate News] Reference
The Duke had no half-pence and was followed and bothered for some time by the tollman on. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
Dominicus was acquainted with the tollman, and, while making change, the usual remarks on the weather passed between them. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe] Reference
I'll read you just a few of the leaders I wrote at that time upon the Buff job of appointing a new tollman to the turnpike here. From Wordnik.com. [Pickwickian Studies] Reference
Billson, the farmer who had been bailed up in his cart; Hogan, the horseman; the boy Mathieson, the tollman, and the woman, Cox by name. From Wordnik.com. [The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy] Reference
The deserted toll-houses along the way glowered mournfully through the rent windows, and I fancied them, sometimes, as I rode at night, haunted by the shambling tollman. From Wordnik.com. [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference
The tollman would swing out this shoe over the boat that was passing through, as a boy would swing his hook and sinker out over the water if he were going to catch fish. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Holland] Reference
The tollman would then draw it in, and, taking out the money, would carry it to his toll house, which was a small building, not much bigger than a sentry box that stood on the pier close by. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in Holland] Reference
Robbie's pony, being, like all Highlanders, a wilful creature, stopped all at once; and though he won the half-mutchkin by getting through first, after driving over the tollman, it was at the expense of poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself] Reference
I'll read you, 'added the editor, turning to Mr. Pickwick --' I'll just read you a few of the leaders I wrote at that time upon the Buff job of appointing a new tollman to the turnpike here; I rather think they'll amuse you. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Pickwick Papers] Reference
If a heavy drove of oxen hadn’t come by immediately, the tollman would have gone down to the village straight, to inquire into it. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
I’ll read you,’ added the editor, turning to Mr. Pickwick — ‘I’ll just read you a few of the leaders I wrote at that time upon the Buff job of appointing a new tollman to the turnpike here; I rather think they’ll amuse you.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club] Reference
‘Left Mr Pecksniff!’ cried the tollman. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
Death saw a tollman taking a toll. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Thought-free, no ghostly tollman keeps. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference
"To Hungerford landing?" asked the tollman. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in London] Reference
"Where do you wish to go?" said the tollman. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in London] Reference
"Twopence each," said the tollman. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in London] Reference
"Or Westminster?" said the tollman. From Wordnik.com. [Rollo in London] Reference
It is bad enough in England; but any one who wishes to enjoy it to perfection had better take a drive from Stirling, crossing the Forth, when, if he select his road happily, he may have the satisfaction of paying half-a-dozen tolls in nearly as many minutes, on the plea that this piece of ground, the size of a cocked-hat-box, -- and that piece, the size of a cabbage-garden, -- and so on, belong to different counties; and his amusement may derive additional zest if he be fortunate enough to find the same tollman there whom I met some years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
First, we knocked over two drunk Irishmen, that were singing "Erin-go-Bragh," arm-in-arm -- syne we rode over the top of an old woman with a wheelbarrow of cabbages -- and when we came to the toll, which was kept by a fat man with a red waistcoat, Robbie's pony, being, like all Highlanders, a wilful creature, stopped all at once; and though he won the half mutchkin by getting through first, after driving over the tollman, it was at the expense of poor Robbie's being ejected from his stirrups like a battering-ram, and disappearing head-foremost through the toll-house window, which was open, hat, wig, green umbrella, and all -- the tollman's wife's bairn making a providential escape from Robbie's landing on all-fours, more than two yards on the far-side of the cradle in which it was lying asleep, with its little flannel nightgown on. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference
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