Our business is to learn and to report to monsieur le surintendant of the finances to what extent English smuggling is injurious to the French merchants.
He confessed to them that the object was not to learn to what extent the French merchants were injured by English smuggling, but to learn how far French smuggling could annoy English trade.
There is wild talk of cannon aboard, and of strange raids and expeditions she may make, ranging from opium
smuggling into the States and arms
smuggling into China, to blackbirding and open piracy.
I had given way to our hereditary passion for
smuggling. I kept a 'yacht' in Morecambe Bay, and more French brandy than I knew what to do with in my cellars.
What to the ostentatious
smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish?
"But," he says, "I made a greater progress in the knowledge of mankind." For it was a smuggling district.
He thought to add to his livelihood by turning an excise man, that is, an officer whose work is to put down smuggling, to collect the duty on whisky, and to see that none upon which duty has not been paid is sold.
Mr Inspector achieved the
smuggling of herself and John into this queer room, called Cosy in an inscription on the door, by entering in the narrow passage first in order, and suddenly turning round upon them with extended arms, as if they had been two sheep.
Exorbitant duties on imported articles would beget a general spirit of
smuggling; which is always prejudicial to the fair trader, and eventually to the revenue itself: they tend to render other classes of the community tributary, in an improper degree, to the manufacturing classes, to whom they give a premature monopoly of the markets; they sometimes force industry out of its more natural channels into others in which it flows with less advantage; and in the last place, they oppress the merchant, who is often obliged to pay them himself without any retribution from the consumer.
In the first place, she gave up Peter Butt, a young man who kept company with her, and in consequence of his disappointment in love, took to
smuggling, poaching, and a thousand other bad courses.
class="x_MsoNormalSri Lanka and Australia have re-dedicated themselves to counter people
smuggling and discussed in detail avenues for strengthening cooperation to address the recent escalation of the number of people-smuggling ventures from Sri Lanka to Australia since May, 2019, the Foreign Ministry said today.
ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Interior Ijaz Shah Thursday said that Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and other concerned government departments should work together to curb
smuggling in the country.