actors

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Her own exactors have spoiled my people, and women have borne sway over her.

From Old English Chronicles by Various

You have sent down our old aristocratic landlords in no other character and with no other title but that of exactors under your authority.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Tribute will pour into the treasury, and even the exactors shall become ministers and yield their willing aid.

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver; and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

From Five Pebbles from the Brook by English, George Bethune

"Thine officers shall become peace, and thine exactors righteousness."

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin