This is no other than the son of the musical tailor, who had bestowed some cost upon his education, hoping to see him one day arrive at the dignity of an exciseman, or at least of a parish clerk.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
One would imagine her a plump, buxom widow, "fat, fair, and forty," with her dear little boy, "the only pledge of her deceased exciseman," or say something between thirty and forty years old.
"Bardell v. Pickwick"
Percy Fitzgerald
He left home while still young, went to London and Sandwich, where he married the daughter of an exciseman, and entered the excise.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler