toll-house

“Let them be admitted,” said the governor, turning back in order again to descend to the street, “and bring them into the folter-kammer of the toll-house.”

Anne of Geierstein 2008

When I had walked some distance without meeting with an inn on the road, and it had already begun to be dark, I at last sat me down near a small toll-house, or a turnpike-gate, in order to rest myself, and also to see whether the man at the turnpike could and would lodge me.

Travels in England in 1782 2004

As I made no distinction among my pleasures between those that came to me from different sources, of varying depth and permanence, I was thinking, when the moment came to answer him, that I should have liked an existence in which I was on intimate terms with the Duchesse de Guermantes, and often came across, as in the old toll-house in the Champs-Elysées, a chilly smell that would remind me of Combray.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

Barbot here shows a “toll-house to collect the customs,” and at the southern extremity a star-shaped “Fort Fernand.”

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The corporal marched straight forward, followed by the convoy, but had not advanced many paces before a posse of custom-house officers rushed out of a small toll-house.

The Alhambra 2002

The corporal marched straight forward, followed by the convoy, but had not advanced many paces before a posse of custom-house officers rushed out of a small toll-house.

The Alhambra 2002

The captured quickfuse snaked from the explosives, past the toll-house, down the bank, through the rickety fence, and reached to the centre of the meadow.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

The three officers walked towards the toll-house that was marked by a white barred gate across the road.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

In front is seen the toll-house and receiving station, then the great market hall and, in the upper part of the picture, the restaurant and administration offices.

A Terminal Market System New York's Most Urgent Need; Some Observations, Comments, and Comparisons of European Markets Madeleine Black

The whole is surmounted by a plain, bold cornice, and block parapet of granite, with pedestal for the lamps, and a neat toll-house.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 548, May 26, 1832 Various