confiscators

Since the economy tanked, every jurisdiction I drive through, city/county/state, has the revenue confiscators working overtime to fleece the sheep.

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Lacedaemon; the confiscators of our property one day, the ruthless opponents of its restoration the next.

Hellenica 2007

I knew one unfortunate shopkeeper who paid £6000 for a property under these circumstances; and in place of an increase of rent, the confiscators -- that is to say the commissioners imposed by Mr. Gladstone -- took a third of the rental off him.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

I see the confiscators begin with bishops and chapters, and monasteries; but I do not see them end there.

Paras. 250-274 1909

The body of confiscators, true to that monied interest for which they were false to every other, have found the clergy competent to incur a legal debt.

Paras. 175-199 1909

I find the ground upon which your confiscators go is this; that indeed their proceedings could not be supported in a court of justice; but that the rules of prescription cannot bind a legislative assembly.

Paras. 250-274 1909

These Roman confiscators, who were yet only in the elements of tyranny, and were not instructed in the rights of men to exercise all sorts of cruelties on each other without provocation, thought it necessary to spread a sort of colour over their injustice.

Paras. 200-224 1909

The confiscators truly have made some allowance to their victims from the scraps and fragments of their own tables, from which they have been so harshly driven, and which have been so bountifully spread for a feast to the harpies of usury.

Paras. 175-199 1909

Had not your confiscators, by their early crimes, obtained a power which secures indemnity to all the crimes of which they have since been guilty, or that they can commit, it is not the syllogism of the logician but the lash of the executioner, that would have refuted a sophistry which becomes an accomplice of theft and murder.

Paras. 175-199 1909

They went as conquerors and as confiscators, and for centuries they worked with arms in their hands.

Home Rule Second Edition Harold Spender 1895