excise man造句

• Situated at the lowest crossing points of the excise men during the 18th century.
• The smuggled goods were bought into Penparcau to avoid the excise men stationed in Aberystwyth.
• There is a Customs and Excise men.
• Legend has it that there is the body of a Customs & Excise man buried beneath the fireplace.
• ""'Whisky Galore ! " "'is a 1949 British comedy film produced by Ealing Studios starring Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood and Customs and Excise men.
• Soon after the birth of his oldest daughter in 1826 he was appointed to the command of the ketch excise men who covered the area from Lulworth Cove to Bournemouth.
• To fishermen or other parties engaged in this illicit trade the avoidance of excise duty meant another few shillings in their pocket and just reward for foiling the excise men and customs.
• In the Napier submissions he mentions that he had often turned down promotion in order to continue as an excise man in a location that allowed his major work to be seen through.
• In 1821 Brookland was the scene of the " Battle of Brookland ", between a band of smugglers known as the Aldington Gang, and Customs and Excise men; five were killed and many wounded.
• Smuggling was a part of village life in Lerryn, indeed one of the village lanes is called'Brandy Lane'and it is said that a small cave which can still be found by an observant walker in Ethy woods, hides the entrance to a tunnel from the wood to Ethy House cellar; where contraband was hidden from the Excise Men.
• And in an upending of the class system that pervaded many of le Carre's earlier novels, the erudite Smiley has been replaced by Nat Brock, a customs and excise man with a Merseyside twang to his voice and a rarely visited wife in the suburbs : " a man of layers, not all of them savory, " as the novel puts it.
• The finale has the two strands reunited back in Northumberland and involves the inevitable discovery that the spirit of the Flawse family lives on in " the Bastard " but is spiced up by several deaths, the inclusion of a human taxidermist, extensive use of sound equipment and a vicious battle with the taxmen and " the excise men " ( Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Department ).