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  • I canvassed when a student in this way and found the method successful.†   (source)
  • Warn the Turners and the Canvasses to stay safe.†   (source)
  • Thirty minutes later I'd canvassed the entire lot.†   (source)
  • Alec wanted the cover in case the people they were planning to confront sent canvassers out at night.†   (source)
  • A canvass of guests on the thirtieth floor had been slightly more successful.†   (source)
  • My responsibilities were to organize the campaign, coordinate the regional branches, canvass for volunteers, and raise funds.†   (source)
  • The tense, receptive, otherworldly faces of the soldiers were as real as if the presence of death had washed the canvasses with the glaze of truth.†   (source)
  • They continued canvassing every inch of the area, searching for any possible advantage they could gain over the verbeeg.†   (source)
  • The rest of the Shadowhunters had spread out and were canvassing the bank, sweeping it with those odd things they used—Sensors—checking every corner for demon activity.†   (source)
  • You've canvassed the neighbors?†   (source)
  • Sherrie and Janice have called the entire office in, all the volunteers, the part-time canvassers, even the high school kids who station the sidewalk kiosks.†   (source)
  • If it is to be an Illumination party, Booth will canvass the city's notable residences for signs of a celebration.†   (source)
  • I've got people running down the woman who was on duty last night, canvassing the rooms, and working the Newport angle.†   (source)
  • Because she'd do the work and not try and make them go canvassing on weekends.†   (source)
  • I canvassed all the other possibilities I could think of, but there seemed to be no source of food available which would be adequate to satisfy the appetites of three adult and four young wolves.†   (source)
  • Surely today ... Alas for the Professor, although he petitioned and canvassed and hustled, presenting himself to a dozen offices in as many days, his increasingly frenzied efforts came to naught.†   (source)
  • I'm not canvassing for members.†   (source)
  • Didn't we canvass for it together?†   (source)
  • Could his team be canvassing the school for survivors'and still be at risk themselves?†   (source)
  • He and Schnooks thanked the clerk for his kind attention, then set out to canvass more hotels.†   (source)
  • Geyer began the same methodical canvass he had conducted in Cincinnati.†   (source)
  • Canvassing area wine shops, Jacobi's team had unearthed a few names, nothing more.†   (source)
  • I talked to them before when we were canvassing the neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Quickly canvassing the empty room, they come up with the first solid leads about Lincoln's murder.†   (source)
  • We need to canvass his neighborhood.†   (source)
  • For now most of what exists in the universe will only be seen and enjoyed by me, like special canvasses in the back of an artist's studio, but one day ....And can you imagine this scene if the earth was not at war, striving so hard just to survive?†   (source)
  • 'Thanks,' he said to the guard, his eyes on Peter, who immediately canvassed the room, his gaze lighting on the only window.†   (source)
  • Geyer knew what to look for in Detroit and, with the assistance of another police detective, once again began a patient canvass of hotels and boardinghouses.†   (source)
  • We've done that canvass already.†   (source)
  • Federal officials will seal off Washington, D.C., and canvass the Maryland and Virginia countryside, but with Atzerodt's guidance Booth and his men will rush through rural Maryland ahead of the search parties, cross the Potomac, and then follow smugglers' routes south to Mexico.†   (source)
  • Then get reliable canvassers who will work afternoons here in Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • After canvassing the street, he'd stand on the curb's edge and look up at the house windows.†   (source)
  • After she had unsuccessfully canvassed the town and refused the importuning of many eager Carpetbaggers, she finally decided to take Tommy's suggestion and ask Hugh Elsing.†   (source)
  • They came too and were shown several different places where the sheet had lain, and some of them with pistols already in their pockets began to canvass about for someone to crucify.†   (source)
  • 1834—elected to the legislature "by the highest vote cast for any candidate"; 1836, 1838, 1840—re-elected; 1838 and 1840—chosen by his party as its candidate for Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, but not elected; 1840 and 1844—placed on Harrison and Clay electoral tickets "and spent much time and labor in both those canvasses"; 1846—elected to Congress; 1848—campaign workers for Zachary Taylor, speaking in Maryland and Massachusetts, and "canvassing quite fully his own district in Illinois, which was followed by a majority in the district of over 1500 for General Taylor"; 1852—placed on WinfieldScott's electoral ticket, "but owing to the hopelessness of the cause i†   (source)
  • By dint of canvassing from house to house, and offering medals and religious colour prints to all who came to church, he had got together a considerable congregation.†   (source)
  • by his party as its candidate for Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, but not elected; 1840 and 1844—placed on Harrison and Clay electoral tickets "and spent much time and labor in both those canvasses"; 1846—elected to Congress; 1848—campaign workers for Zachary Taylor, speaking in Maryland and Massachusetts, and "canvassing quite fully his own district in Illinois, which was followed by a majority in the district of over 1500 for General Taylor"; 1852—placed on WinfieldScott's electoral ticket, "but owing to the hopelessness of the cause in Illinois he did less than in previous presidential canvasses"; 1854—"....his profession had almost superseded the thought o†   (source)
  • Taylor, speaking in Maryland and Massachusetts, and "canvassing quite fully his own district in Illinois, which was followed by a majority in the district of over 1500 for General Taylor"; 1852—placed on WinfieldScott's electoral ticket, "but owing to the hopelessness of the cause in Illinois he did less than in previous presidential canvasses"; 1854—"....his profession had almost superseded the thought of politics in his mind, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused him as he had never been before"; 1856—"made over fifty speeches" in the campaign for Fremont; prominently mentioned in the Republican national convention for the vice-presidential nomination...The rest of th†   (source)
  • I confess I had never had such a question asked me before, nor had I ever canvassed it.†   (source)
  • There was a considerable pause, while the boys canvassed this matter inwardly.†   (source)
  • They appeared to be always excited about canvassing and electing.†   (source)
  • Meantime the subject of the arrest was being canvassed in every different form.†   (source)
  • So voluntarily, so freely, so coolly to canvass it!†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXIII — Captain Dobbin Proceeds on His Canvass†   (source)
  • —a little canvassing takes place on these occasions.'†   (source)
  • Here was a type of the traveling canvasser for a manufacturing house a class which at that time was first being dubbed by the slang of the day "drummers."†   (source)
  • He fondly hoped he had done with the sea for ever, and made sure he had got hold of all the bliss on earth, but it came to canvassing in the end.†   (source)
  • Between ourselves, you know, Crofton (he's a decent chap, of course), but he's not worth a damn as a canvasser.†   (source)
  • They went clothed in steel and equipped with sword and lance and battle-axe, and if they couldn't persuade a person to try a sewing-machine on the installment plan, or a melodeon, or a barbed-wire fence, or a prohibition journal, or any of the other thousand and one things they canvassed for, they removed him and passed on.†   (source)
  • At the close of my school year in Washington I was very pleasantly surprised to receive, from a committee of three white people in Charleston, an invitation to canvass the state in the interests of that city.†   (source)
  • He canvassed his system.†   (source)
  • Instead he replied (which was true at times) that his father canvassed for a washing machine and wringer company—and on Sundays preached—a religious revelation, which was not at all displeasing to this master of boys who were inclined to be anything but home-loving and conservative.†   (source)
  • And then only two days after this most encouraging conversation, and while Clyde was still debating whether he would resign his job, resume his true name and canvass the various hotels in search of work, a note came to his room, brought by one of the bell-boys of the Union League which read: "See Mr. Lightall at the Great Northern before noon to-morrow.†   (source)
  • "Is that the way you chaps canvass," said Mr. Lyons, "and Crofton and I out in the cold and rain looking for votes?"†   (source)
  • You can't imagine a mode of life more barren of consolation, less capable of being invested with a spark of glamour—unless it be the business of an insurance canvasser.†   (source)
  • A canvass was also made among the people of both races for direct gifts of money, and most of those applied to gave small sums.†   (source)
  • Mr. O'Connor had been engaged by Tierney's agent to canvass one part of the ward but, as the weather was inclement and his boots let in the wet, he spent a great part of the day sitting by the fire in the Committee Room in Wicklow Street with Jack, the old caretaker.†   (source)
  • And in the meantime the twelve men—farmers, clerks and storekeepers, re-canvassing for their own mental satisfaction the fine points made by Mason and Belknap and Jephson.†   (source)
  • She made a personal canvass among the white and coloured families in the town of Tuskegee, and got them to agree to give something, like a cake, a chicken, bread, or pies, that could be sold at the festival.†   (source)
  • The stirring event was well canvassed.†   (source)
  • For while Mrs. Griffiths was first canvassing the churches and ministers of this section for aid for her son, and getting very little from any quarter, she had met the Rev. Duncan McMillan in Syracuse, where he was conducting an independent, non-sectarian church.†   (source)
  • After the question had been canvassed for several days, the directors voted unanimously to ask me to deliver one of the opening-day addresses, and in a few days after that I received the official invitation.†   (source)
  • He had been a clerk in the Midland Railway, a canvasser for advertisements for The Irish Times and for The Freeman's Journal, a town traveller for a coal firm on commission, a private inquiry agent, a clerk in the office of the Sub-Sheriff, and he had recently become secretary to the City Coroner.†   (source)
  • He had been a canvasser for Wilkins, the Conservative, but when the Conservatives had withdrawn their man and, choosing the lesser of two evils, given their support to the Nationalist candidate, he had been engaged to work for Mr. Tiemey.†   (source)
  • And there were times, when, the work proving highly unprofitable and Asa being unable to make much money at the two things he most understood—gardening and canvassing for one invention or another—they were quite without sufficient food or decent clothes, and the children could not go to school.†   (source)
  • Therefore they worked hard, but not harder than Judge Driscoll and Tom worked against them in the closing days of the canvass.†   (source)
  • For me at least—in the circumstances then surrounding me—there arose out of the pure abstractions which the hypochondriac contrived to throw upon his canvass, an intensity of intolerable awe, no shadow of which felt I ever yet in the contemplation of the certainly glowing yet too concrete reveries of Fuseli.†   (source)
  • I wish Frederick would spread a little more canvass, and bring us home one of these young ladies to Kellynch.†   (source)
  • When the canvass was removed, the first articles that came in view were some of the habiliments of the male sex.†   (source)
  • It contained the Norman word "melee", (to express the general conflict,) and it evinced some indifference to the honour of the country; but it was spoken by Athelstane, whom he held in such profound respect, that he would not trust himself to canvass his motives or his foibles.†   (source)
  • When daylight arrived, at last, he had made many a mile, and canvassed many a crowd, but the only result was that he was tolerably tired, rather hungry and very sleepy.†   (source)
  • In the Sorrows of Werter, besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed and so many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a never-ending source of speculation and astonishment.†   (source)
  • There were plenty of reasons why he should not go—public reasons why he should not quit his post at this crisis, leaving Mr. Brooke in the lurch when he needed "coaching" for the election, and when there was so much canvassing, direct and indirect, to be carried on.†   (source)
  • A painter would gladly have seized the moment, to transfer the wild and characteristic scene to the canvass.†   (source)
  • We think so very differently on this point, Mr. Knightley, that there can be no use in canvassing it.†   (source)
  • But Doctor Kimble (country apothecaries in old days enjoyed that title without authority of diploma), being a thin and agile man, was flitting about the room with his hands in his pockets, making himself agreeable to his feminine patients, with medical impartiality, and being welcomed everywhere as a doctor by hereditary right—not one of those miserable apothecaries who canvass for practice in strange neighbourhoods, and spend all their income in starving their one horse, but a man of substance, able to keep an extravagant table like the best of his patients.†   (source)
  • The marriages of either were discussed; and their prospects in life canvassed with the greatest frankness and interest on both sides.†   (source)
  • These opinions had been hardly canvassed a year before another event arose of such importance in the family, as might fairly claim some place in the thoughts and conversation of the ladies.†   (source)
  • Marius could make nothing out of it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity of foreign canvasses and screen paintings.†   (source)
  • In those days, this matter of slavery had never been canvassed as it has now; nobody dreamed of any harm in it.†   (source)
  • Many friendly critics are too little skilled in social questions and moral discussions to be able to conceive that respectable gentlemen like themselves, who would instantly call the police to remove Mrs Warren if she ventured to canvass them personally, could possibly be in any way responsible for her proceedings.†   (source)
  • The subject which had been so warmly canvassed between their parents, about a twelvemonth ago, was now brought forward again.†   (source)
  • He is canvassed by a multitude of applicants, who seek to deceive him in a thousand different ways, but who instruct him by their deceit.†   (source)
  • The deputation, who had only seen him at canvassing or election time, were struck dumb by his coolness.†   (source)
  • I am a School lady, I am a Visiting lady, I am a Reading lady, I am a Distributing lady; I am on the local Linen Box Committee and many general committees; and my canvassing alone is very extensive—perhaps no one's more so.†   (source)
  • The whole of what Elizabeth had already heard, his claims on Mr. Darcy, and all that he had suffered from him, was now openly acknowledged and publicly canvassed; and everybody was pleased to know how much they had always disliked Mr. Darcy before they had known anything of the matter.†   (source)
  • Judith moved forward with a sudden impulse, and removed a canvass cap that was forced so low on his head as to conceal his face, and indeed all but his shoulders.†   (source)
  • When however, the fact that she had resolved to go was fully before the public mind, she was solemnly invited out to tea by all her friends and neighbors for the space of a fortnight, and her prospects and plans duly canvassed and inquired into.†   (source)
  • Deputations without and voices within had concurred in inducing that philanthropist to take a stronger measure than usual for the good of mankind; namely, to withdraw in favor of another candidate, to whom he left the advantages of his canvassing machinery.†   (source)
  • Ivanhoe, who had other web to weave than to stand canvassing a palfrey's paces with its owner, lent but a deaf ear to the Prior's grave advices and facetious jests, and having leapt on his mare, and commanded his squire (for such Gurth now called himself) to keep close by his side, he followed the track of the Black Knight into the forest, while the Prior stood at the gate of the convent looking after him, and ejaculating,—"Saint Mary!†   (source)
  • As to the sad catastrophe itself, it could be canvassed only in one style by a couple of steady, sensible women, whose judgements had to work on ascertained events; and it was perfectly decided that it had been the consequence of much thoughtlessness and much imprudence; that its effects were most alarming, and that it was frightful to think, how long Miss Musgrove's recovery might yet be doubtful, and how liable she would still remain to suffer from the concussion hereafter!†   (source)
  • It appearing to be admitted all round that the enquiry into the contents of the chest ought to be renewed, Deerslayer proceeded to remove the second covering of canvass.†   (source)
  • Acting upon this hint, Dobbin furiously canvassed the governor, the commander-in-chief, the judges, the regiments, and everybody whom he knew in the Presidency, and sent home to Sedley and Co. orders for wine which perfectly astonished Mr. Sedley and Mr. Clapp, who was the Co. in the business.†   (source)
  • Mr. Brooke on this occasion abstained from boasting of his tactics to Ladislaw, who for his part was glad enough to persuade himself that he had no concern with any canvassing except the purely argumentative sort, and that he worked no meaner engine than knowledge.†   (source)
  • 'I am very sorry to throw a damp upon the prospects of anybody, and more especially a lady,' replied Nicholas; 'but really I must decidedly object to making one of the canvassing party.'†   (source)
  • It had very early occurred to her that a small sum of money might, perhaps, restore peace for ever on the sore subject of the silver knife, canvassed as it now was continually, and the riches which she was in possession of herself, her uncle having given her 10 at parting, made her as able as she was willing to be generous.†   (source)
  • "Ay, if some bundles could speak, they might tell wonderful secrets," returned the young man deliberately undoing the folds of another piece of course canvass, in order to come at the contents of the roll that lay on his knees: "though this doesn't seem to be one of that family, seeing 'tis neither more nor less than a sort of flag, though of what nation, it passes my l'arnin' to say."†   (source)
  • In the mean time, the Indian and his friend had their secret consultation; for, though it wanted some three or four hours to the rising of the star, the former could not abstain from canvassing his scheme, and from opening his heart to the other.†   (source)
  • From this time, the subject was frequently canvassed by the three young people; and Catherine found, with some surprise, that her two young friends were perfectly agreed in considering Isabella's want of consequence and fortune as likely to throw great difficulties in the way of her marrying their brother.†   (source)
  • Aunt Pat headed out to canvass the neighbors.†   (source)
  • My mother ignored his objections and began canvassing the mortgage market, then sat down with him and explained about monthly mortgage and equity payments.†   (source)
  • Some weeks I canvassed the entiretown for six days and still had four or five unsold magazines on Monday evening; then I dreaded the coming of Tuesday morning, when a batch of thirty fresh Saturday Evening Posts was due at the front door.†   (source)
  • [8] He does not make a /campaign/, but a /canvass/†   (source)
  • In vain the voice of Mr Canvasser Bloom was heard endeavouring to urge, to mollify, to refrain.†   (source)
  • WE SEE THE CANVASSER AT WORK Mr Bloom laid his cutting on Mr Nannetti's desk.†   (source)
  • No use canvassing him for an ad.†   (source)
  • luggage-van ballast (railroad) metals bath-tub bath beet beet-root bid (noun) tender bill-board hoarding boarder paying-guest boardwalk (seaside) promenade bond (finance) debenture boot Blucher, or Wellington brakeman brakesman bucket pail bumper (car) buffer bureau chest of drawers calendar (court) cause-list campaign (political) canvass can (noun) tin candy sweets cane stick canned-goods tinned-goods car (railroad) carriage, van or waggon checkers (game) draughts chicken-yard fowl-run chief-clerk head-clerk city-editor chief-reporter city-ordinance by-law clipping (newspaper) cutting coal-oil paraffin coal-scuttle coal-hod commission-merchant factor conductor (of a train) guar†   (source)
  • He does canvassing for the Freeman.†   (source)
  • He does some canvassing for ads.†   (source)
  • BELLA: I know you, canvasser!†   (source)
  • (historic), Expel that Pain (medic), Infant's Compendium of the Universe (cosmic), Let's All Chortle (hilaric), Canvasser's Vade Mecum (journalic), Loveletters of Mother Assistant (erotic), Who's Who in Space (astric), Songs that Reached Our Heart (melodic), Pennywise's Way to Wealth (parsimonic)†   (source)
  • Contemporaneously, a heated argument having arisen between Mr Delegate Madden and Mr Candidate Lynch regarding the juridical and theological dilemma created in the event of one Siamese twin predeceasing the other, the difficulty by mutual consent was referred to Mr Canvasser Bloom for instant submittal to Mr Coadjutor Deacon Dedalus.†   (source)
  • Canvassing for death.†   (source)
  • THE DAUGHTERS OF ERIN: Kidney of Bloom, pray for us Flower of the Bath, pray for us Mentor of Menton, pray for us Canvasser for the Freeman, pray for us Charitable Mason, pray for us Wandering Soap, pray for us Sweets of Sin, pray for us Music without Words, pray for us Reprover of the Citizen, pray for us Friend of all Frillies, pray for us Midwife Most Merciful, pray for us Potato Preservative against Plague and Pestilence, pray for us.†   (source)
  • Do, an thou darest for thy heart: an thou dost, I'll canvass thee between a pair of sheets.†   (source)
  • This observation deserves to be canvassed.†   (source)
  • This subject has been very narrowly canvassed among them, and it has been debated whether a firm and entire health could be called a pleasure or not.†   (source)
  • The only objection which remains to be canvassed, is that which would substitute the proportion of two thirds of all the members composing the senatorial body, to that of two thirds of the members PRESENT.†   (source)
  • After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.†   (source)
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