Sentence examples for customhouse where from inspiring English sources

In the 1830s, Robert Mills designed the U.S. Customhouse, where whaling captains filed necessary paperwork and paid their tariffs and duties.

Next to this was the 1863 Customhouse building, and outside the two was an open space known as Customhouse Square.

So, as they approached the customhouse, she began to sing and made the writer sing, too.

A five-year investigation led to its return at a news conference at the United States Customhouse in Manhattan.

But they were brief notes declining speaking engagements or providing references for applicants to night watchman or customhouse posts.

Customhouse (18 Fryatt Street, thecustomhouse.co.nz) is an airy, upmarket cafe-bar-restaurant on the harbour, housed in – yep – the former custom house.

Although Arthur collected the customs duties with integrity, he continued the practice of overstaffing the customhouse with employees whose chief qualification was loyalty to Conkling.

Mackintosh was briefly detained, but, after a gentlemen's militia threatened not to defend the customhouse from future mobs, the sheriff let him go.

At the age of 17 Iredell was appointed comptroller of the customhouse at Edenton, N.C., to which his father, formerly a Bristol merchant, had migrated.

Largely self-educated, he made his living as a secretary-translator at Riga and Courland and as a government employee (1767 84) in the excise office and customhouse.

In 1877 newly elected President Rutherford B. Hayes, intent on reducing Conkling's patronage fiefdom, demanded the resignation of Arthur and others in the New York City customhouse.