Gatherer

Examples

• But then I am an imaginative man; and the butcher, the baker, and the tax-gatherer, are not the only credible realities in existence to my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In order to ascertain how many hearths were in the house, it was necessary that the tax-gatherer should enter every room in it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The rubber gatherer carries in addition to a macheadino and many small tin cups, a larger vessel for gathering the liquid and carrying it to camp. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The visit of the tax-gatherer, therefore, was less offensive in this tax than in the hearth-money. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Brazilian name for a rubber gatherer is seringuero. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• No doubt in many cases the population found that the barbarian was a worse infliction even than the tax-gatherer and the slave-driver. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If robbers abounded, tax-gatherers and creditors had disappeared. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On such expeditions rubber gatherers usually go armed with rifles to protect themselves against wild animals, reptiles and savage Indians. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The loss of the sovereign, from the abuse and depredation of his tax-gatherers, would necessarily be much greater. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Typist: Millie