Do we say tacks or tax
" "You mean he buckled right down to brass tacks, and that's what my boy is going to do.
Besides, when yuh git right down to brass tacks, thar isn't as much danger o' my bein' robbed in the night-time, as in the day.
"Who said you might drive tacks all over these new walls, and where did you get all those pictures of yourself?" "They does favour me, don't they, missy?" exclaimed Mancy, beaming with delight, as she took another tack from her mouth, and pounded it into place.
" "Thank you, missy, do; and I'll hand you the tacks.
"After the table and the chairs are used up, we'll provide tacks for the rest.
To get down to brass tacks and actually say what she's driving at.
all following the same course, just like ships on different tacks beating against the wind to arrive at the same port, a comparison that could not fail immediately to occur to a sailor.
She had to make but two tacks in that hour's impetuous progress, before the house rose, as it had frequently done before, glooming at but a few rods' distance, and loading with odorous breath the air that tossed its vines ere stealing across the lake.
She had used it the day before to lift tacks out of a carpet.
Early the next morning we sailed over the bar, though not without grounding, for the wind being from the westward we were obliged to make several tacks, by which we necessarily approached the edge of the banks; this accident however did not detain us and by one o'clock we passed round Cape Sorell.
Just as breakfast was announced, indeed, the vessel was approaching the more difficult part of the river; and all we got of that meal, we took on deck, at snatches, between the many tacks we made.
On what course?" "He got he starboard tacks aboard, sir.
All the little things that went into the treasury; lead pencils, tacks, $3.00 in one case and $5.00 in another; 'beefs liver, $14.00'think of that!
This he was enabled to do quite easily, since fore-and-aft vessels make much quicker tacks than those that are square-rigged.
The yacht was trying to beat to the northward by making short tacks through the ice-floes, but, as Bob could see, she made but little way.
I'm going to build another kite!" She sped into the house and in a few moments was busy nailing together another frame while the rest of the Winnebagos stood around and handed her tacks, paper, paste, and everything as she needed it.
Toward the west side we came to a closely crevassed section in which we had to make long, narrow tacks and doublings, tracing the edges of tremendous transverse and longitudinal crevasses, many of which were from twenty to thirty feet wide, and perhaps a thousand feet deepbeautiful and awful.
"Well, now you're coming down to brass-headed tacks.
She was close on a wind, with her larboard tacks aboard, and had evidently just shaken everything, in the expectation of luffing past the point without tacking.
The duties of the seamen are thus described: "The sailers are the ancient men for hoising the sailes, getting the tacks aboord, haling the bowlings, and steering the ship.
He was a solemn little cuss, but I didn't get much chance to size him up, because his ma started right in to explain how he'd been raisedno whipping, nobut I cut it short there, and asked her to get down to brass tacks, as I was very busy trying to see that 70,000,000 people were supplied with their daily pork.
And they believe that a child can digest everything from carpet tacks to fried steak, so whenever Willie hollers they think he's hungry, and try to plug his throat with a banana.
The usual tacks were placed in my chair, causing the war-dances incidental to such occasions; the customary pranks were resorted to by young America to settle the oft mooted question as to who is master; the inevitable interference of parents followed, who as usual, regarded their children as cherubs whose wings they seemed to think would soon appear were it not for the tyrannical spanks of the unworthy teacher.
Tin tacks and some considerable machiningfor mother had lent her the help of her little "common sense" awhilehad done it all; and Ruth's room, with its oblong of carpet,which Mrs. Holabird and she had made out before, from the brightest breadths of her old dove-colored one and a bordering of crimson Venetian, of which there had not been enough to put upon the staircase,looked, as Barbara said, "just as if it had been done on purpose.
" "Gladys," said Brandon, observing the child's deep attention, "it is right you should know that the brother-poet had written a tragedy on tin-tacks.
He repeatedly offended the American colonies by attempts to tax them and to regulate their trade.
In Minnesota and some other states, he computes all the taxes for the county, [Footnote: In some states, among them Wisconsin, this computation is performed by the several town clerks, and the moneys are collected by the town treasurers.] and makes the tax-lists, showing in books provided for the purpose just how much the tax is on each piece of real estate and on personal property.
In Minnesota and some other states, he computes all the taxes for the county, [Footnote: In some states, among them Wisconsin, this computation is performed by the several town clerks, and the moneys are collected by the town treasurers.] and makes the tax-lists, showing in books provided for the purpose just how much the tax is on each piece of real estate and on personal property.
How does the tax collector know how much to take from each person?
From whom does he get this book? The amount of a person's tax depends upon the value of his property and the rate of tax.
From whom does he get this book? The amount of a person's tax depends upon the value of his property and the rate of tax.
The rate of tax depends upon the amount to be raised and the value of the property on which it is to be assessed.
To whom must he report the amount of tax voted?
To whom must he report the amount of tax voted?
The state auditor, also, comparing the legislative appropriations with the assessed value of the property of the state, computes the rate of the state tax and reports it to county auditors.
A certain southern state imposed a tax upon commercial travelers not residents of that state; was the act constitutional?
Is this fellow-citizen of ours, considered simply in the light of a baptised Christian and tax-paying Englishman, really as madly conceited, as empty of reverential feeling, as unveracious and careless of justice, as full of catch-penny devices and stagey attitudinising as on examination his writing shows itself to be?
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It was a severe tax on her credulity to try and believe that he was dying for love of her.
THE INCOME TAX COLLECTOR, a photoplay in two reels by Fox Film Corp.
The bulk of these persons were overseers and tax-collectors.
Of Loddon, Norfolk, we are told that "no complaint appears about Church Rates, for there were none, as the revenue of the Town Farm ... rendered a tax of that description unnecessary."[204] Of St. Petrock's, Exeter, we are informed that "the parish became so well endowed by donations of land and houses as to enable the wardens to dispense almost entirely with the quarterly collections entered in the earlier accounts.
In fact, the proceeds of parish lands or other endowments might be appropriated to alleviate any tax burden whatsoever.
Originally a tax varying from a farthing to a penny for each household (hence the names "smoke farthings," "hearth penny," "smoke silver"), the payments were commuted for a small lump sum exacted yearly.
Such lists may represent an attempt to tax each man at 1/2d. or 1d.