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How much better than being Postmaster-General or Inspector of Nuisances!

From Alone by Douglas, Norman

These titles, which are but provisional, we pray may remain and be Enregistered under the seal, notwithstanding the "Act to Restrain Nuisances and Voids" of 1819, Cap.

From On Something by Belloc, Hilaire

The monster nuisance, as it had been invidiously called, was no longer amenable to the Nuisances Removal Act.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

"It was reported to the Sanitary Committee yesterday that the Inspector of Nuisances had made arrangements for the repair of the meteorological instruments."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 by Various

Adultery, not in the Criminal Code, 35 Advertising Bill-discounters and Money lenders to be regulated, 118, 119 Alehouses, a great source of Crimes and Nuisances when ill-regulated, 85, 311, &c.

From A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Colquhoun, Patrick