Our Mediterranean trade would be burdened with the impost of a toll at Gibraltar.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
This half-shekel gradually became an annual impost, levied for the great expenses of the Temple.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
The trial of Hampden-the favourite of Buckinghamshire-for his daring refusal to pay the arbitrary impost of "ship money," had met with the approbation of all honest men; while the judges, who condemned him, were denounced on all sides as worse than "unjust."
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid