"I doubt not," answered Robin, "he is a Levier of toll and tithe, which I shall put him upon proof of his right to receive, by making trial of his might to enforce."
"Maid Marian"
Thomas Love Peacock
And in this matter of monopolizing the coal, despite Roebuck's earnest assurances to Galloway that the combine was purely defensive, and was really concerned only with the labor question, Galloway, a great manufacturer, or, rather, a huge Levier of the taxes of dividends and interest upon manufacturing enterprises, could not but be uneasy.
"The Deluge"
David Graham Phillips
S. Sommier and E. Levier’s Enumeratorio plantarum caucas: acta horti petropolitani, vol.
"The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations"
Zelia Nuttall