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He trotted alone over the carriage road of the Williamsburg Bridge, before the light, while the tollkeeper was sleeping by his stove and many stars were still blazing above the city.

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But several times that night, when a waggon or other vehicle came through, and the driver asked the tollkeeper ‘What news?’ he looked at the man by the light of his lantern, to assure himself that he had an interest in the subject, and then said, wrapping his watch – coat round his legs:

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

It was a bright day in June and Phineas Longley, tollkeeper for the new suspension bridge on Whiskey Bar, had had a busy morning.

Down the Mother Lode Vivia Hemphill 1911

But several times that night, when a waggon or other vehicle came through, and the driver asked the tollkeeper 'What news?' he looked at the man by the light of his lantern, to assure himself that he had an interest in the subject, and then said, wrapping his watch-coat round his legs:

Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

What they're doing is clearly anticompetitive … They want one superhighway and they're the tollkeeper on that superhighway. says one potential trigger for an investigation is a concern that changes to the Apple developer agreement could harm advertisers on those devices, and benefit Apple:

Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

One tollkeeper said the bridge and tollbooths were "shaken as if by an earthquake rather than a hurricane."

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One tollkeeper said the bridge and tollbooths were "shaken as if by an earthquake rather than a hurricane."

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"You go back!" roared the tollkeeper, swearing, "and go ford the river.

Down the Mother Lode Vivia Hemphill 1911

The ghostly tollkeeper detects the fraud in an instant and roars out, "So you would cheat me of my dues?

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia James George Frazer 1897