Laughing and crying in the quick surcharge of spirits that makes their race what it is, they threw themselves on their knees begging his blessing.
"The Shepherd of the North"
Richard Aumerle Maher
Their income is mainly derived from the local rate, a surcharge of one-twelfth on the land revenue.
"The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir"
Sir James McCrone Douie
Considering the general tendency to multiply offices and dependencies and to increase expense to the ultimate term of burthen which the citizen can bear, it behooves us to avail ourselves of every occasion which presents itself for taking off the surcharge, that it never may be seen here that after leaving to labor the smallest portion of its earnings on which it can subsist, Government shall itself consume the whole residue of what it was instituted to guard.
"State of the Union Addresses of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson