Sentence Examples with the word Customs

Taking Varro for his model, Fenestella was one of the chief representatives of the new style of historical writing which, in the place of the brilliant descriptive pictures of Livy, discussed curious and out-of-the-way incidents and customs of political and social life, including literary history.

Heathenish cults and forbidden manners and customs are a pollution to the land and a deep insult to the true God.

Revenue is raised principally from customs and a capitation tax, which has replaced a hut tax.

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On the 21st of July sworn evidence, which was supplemented on the 23rd of July, was obtained and laid before the commissioners of customs (who were the proper authorities to enforce the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1819), but they declined to move.

In 1898 the Free State also acquiesced in the new convention arranged with regard to the Customs Union between the Cape Colony, Natal, Basutoland and the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

Its only result for the majority was a falling back on the earlier popular cultus of the Baals, and on the heathen customs introduced, or reintroduced, by Josiah's grandfather, Manasseh.


Excise duties are charges upon commodities produced at home on their way to the consumer, and customs duties in the United Kingdom are charges upon commodities brought into the country from abroad; and they are of essentially the same nature.

The principal items of revenue are customs and excise, land and house tax, stamps, railways, legal fees, the state lottery and death duties.

The revenue of the republic is derived mainly from customs and excise, and the largest item of expenditure is the service of the public debt.