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Levies

Levy \Lev"y\ (-[y^]), n.; pl. Levies (-[i^]z). [A contr. of elevenpence or elevenpenny bit.] A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 121/2 cents), valued at eleven pence when the dollar was rated at 7s. 6d.

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levies

n. (levy English) vb. (en-third-person singularlevy)

Usage examples of "levies".

He was in Denver only two weeks when word reached him that Desperado Jim Reynolds, a Confederate renegade, was storming through the Arkansas River valley, threatening communications and trying to raise levies for an attack on Denver.

Court has in fact relied to sustain taxation exclusively by the situs State, logically would seem to permit taxation by the domiciliary State as well as by the nondomiciliary State in which the tangibles are situate, especially when the former levies the tax on the owner in terms of the value of the tangibles.

The biggest differences were the dozens of tents and the camped levies arrayed on each side of the road from.

Rather than flee as so many had, as I had every right to do, because you stood fast, I gathered all those I could, and I held them together, and brought them here because most of those I gathered were levies from Pamr.

If she were unsuccessful, she and thousands of Nesereahs and Defalkan levies would die.

Lady Gatrune, Captain Firis will lend Himar some considerable fraction of the Pamr levies for three weeks, provided we pay for their food and travel expenses.

You and Fydel will accompany the Certan levies and their commanders from Jellico to Spidlar, when the time comes.

Axalt will be clear for the Certan levies that will follow in another four or five eight-days, after the spring planting is complete.

Nor will they credit all the levies to follow until they have seen them in battle.

Anya has pointed out, we also have to have a way for the Gallosian levies to enter Spidlar, and that has to be by the river or the river roads.

The levies have all deserted, except for those under Lord Jecks, and they are forming up to fight outside the fort.

Defalk we had hoped would always be, and therefore, so long as you stand as regent behind Lord Jimbob, we stand fully behind you, and offer our honor, our arms, and our levies in support of your regency.

Gorsuch, as regent for young Duke Uulrac, Duke Estalin, Viscount Rystryr, suggesting that it may be necessary for them to raise levies to deal with the problem of Spidlar.

Cerryl will hold that town while Anya and I will lead the advance on Elparta, once the first levies arrive.

Certan levies, you and Cerryl have to provide the escort and horse support, and that means you will be quartered at the town at the road fork, whatever its name might be.