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But the enthusiasm of the lunch-hour crowds that stood six and eight deep along Customhouse Quay and Lambton Quay outweighed the undercurrent of dissent.

From Time Magazine Archive

To these still lifes Artist Roy attaches sprightly titles: "The Quartermaster's Farewell," "Danger on the Staircase," "Love Killed by the Customhouse," "Offering of Asparagus."

From Time Magazine Archive

All the trunks are going over as luggage; then I've got to find somebody on the dock who will agree to ship 6 of them to the Hartford Customhouse.

From Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Paine, Albert Bigelow

But these Customhouse officers! these rats de cave, as the French comically call them, will not let a ribbon pass.

From Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I by Piozzi, Hester Lynch

By 1787 this amount had increased to 18,716,445 pounds; in 1801 to 42,090,765, and in 1811 it was 41,735,555, according to William Irving, Inspector General of the London Customhouse.

From Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) by Cromwell, John W.