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How To Use Customhouse In A Sentence

  • There used to be, and belike is yet, a custom, in all maritime places which have a port, that all merchants who come thither with merchandise, having unloaded it, should carry it all into a warehouse, which is in many places called a customhouse, kept by the commonality or by the lord of the place. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
  • “Ah yes, the customhouse traffic must be very great,” nodded Déprez. The Blackstone Key
  • From this another conclusion may be draw, namely, that the sorry soldier of Mexico is not altogether amiable and is prone to be nasty and dangerous to the American boys who have crossed the sea to take "peaceable" possession of a customhouse. Mexico's Army and Ours
  • Biographical Information: Lena Schleindlinger was the first woman customhouse broker in Philadelphia. Personal Information for Lena Schleindlinger
  • Exactly before the opening, however, stood a melancholy impediment—a handbarrow, placed upon the ground, on which two monatti were laying out a poor creature to bear him away: it was the head of the customhouse officers, in whom the plague had been discovered just before. Chapter XXXIV
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  • By 1765 it had a customhouse and traded regularly with the West Indies. The King's Best Highway
  • regie," under the management of Westendorp, took charge of the customhouses with the obligation of paying a certain amount to the government monthly and devoting the remainder to payment of interest and sinking fund of the loans. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future
  • It was found that the customhouse rule then in effect measured length between perpendiculars above the upper deck, from "foreside of the main stem" to the "after side of the sternpost. The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80
  • He was owed a decent retirement, given his exceptional service: the dozen years affixing wool subsidies in the aromatic customhouse earned the court more than most customs officers earned in a lifetime. A Complaint to His Purse

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