They advanced towards a boat, which a custom-house officer held by a chain, near the quay.

In the morning the custom-house officers, together with a crowd of idlers, visited her.

If the Custom-House officers had been coming, they would have been here now.

Besides, you must have something on the panels of your carriage, to escape being searched by the custom-house officers.

When the custom-house officers succeeded in seizing contraband goods they were again taken from them by main force.

I remember when we brought it from Lima, the custom-house officers weighed and appraised it.

Upon reaching the room below, I found five or six custom-house officers, and two or three gendarmes - all heavily armed.

"My English friend did as I requested; but it was of no use; the custom-house officer kept piling them upon his scales.

At landing, I showed the custom-house officers my letter from the king of Luggnagg to his imperial majesty.

Austrian custom-house officers.

The wharf- rats and custom-house officers, and broken-down poets, seeking a fortune amid the barrels.

Mistakes with regard to this sometimes ruin the custom-house officer, and frequently occasion much trouble, expense, and vexation to the importer.

But the perquisites of custom-house officers are everywhere much greater than their salaries; at some ports more than double or triple those salaries.

Collector General, Custom-house Officers and Officers of the Customs.

I was plagued at Ipswich with the custom-house officers, who stopped my trunk, as I called it, and would open and search it.

I took an axe to it, readily forced the paltry Chinese fastening, and, like a Custom-House officer, plunged my hands among the contents.

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.

They had not gone a hundred toises from the shore when they were perceived by the custom-house officers, who set out in pursuit of them, and brought them back again.

Everything and everybody seemed enervated, except those frightfully active people in all countries and climates, "the custom-house officers:" these necessary plagues to society gave their usual amount of annoyance.

These old gentlemen- seated, like Matthew, at the receipt of customs, but not very liable to be summoned thence, like him, for apostolic errands- were Custom-House officers.

The muleteer gave his beast a hearty thwack; the custom-house officer sprang forward and seized the halter; whereupon the corporal levelled his piece, and shot him dead.

I gave the custom-house officers a copy of our bill of lading; and as to the other papers, they sent a man off with the pilot, to whom I gave them."

In the first place, the steamer no sooner touches the port, than all the passengers fall into captivity: being boarded by an overpowering force of Custom-house officers, and marched into a gloomy dungeon.

The most perfect tranquillity was restored, and the vigilance of the custom-house officers was redoubled, and their strictness was increased at this time, in consequence of the fair at Beaucaire.

"I left in a French steamer, and she called in every blamed port they have out there, for, as far as I could see, the sole purpose of landing soldiers and custom-house officers.