"By your customs appraisers, forty thousand.
"The Voice in the Fog"
Harold MacGrath
Later in the day there came from the city the insurance men and the fire appraisers, and they too walked about the ruins, and talked with the wardens and the vestry men.
"Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town"
Stephen Leacock
But it is none the less pitiful to see the hammer of the appraisers raised above a palace with which is connected centuries of history.
"Cosmopolis, Complete"
Paul Bourget Last Updated: March 3, 2009