I had seen him put it into the cupboard, and was able therefore to find it and get it out, looking at the thin, grief-struck face of the tax-gatherer.

我看到老头方才把威士忌放在碗橱里，于是找到酒，把它取了出来。

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The big tax gatherer is the Federal Government.

FORBES: Paul Krugman and the Socialist Hellhole That is Sweden

There was the tax gatherer to take the grain from the fields and the flax from the spindle to feed the legions or to fill the hungry treasury from which divine Caesar gave largess to the people.

WSJ: In Hoc Anno Domini