While the Comte de Mirabeau was continuing his canvass among the members of the National Assembly, relative to his motion, attempts were again made in the public papers to mislead them.
With all his canvass set, and inexpert, And therefore heedless, can withstand thy power?
I was free then, sir, to speak my gratitude, as I now am to utter my indignation that you should dare to canvass my acts and question my motives, both of which are above your control.
I told several of my neighbors that if this mode of canvass had your sanction, it was from not knowing the privileges of an elector.
I am in a measure committed to continue my canvass there, and, indeed, have already entered into securities to keep my pledge.
Hodgson, we are going, Our embargo's off at last; Favourable breezes blowing Bend the canvass o'er the mast.
With Shirley here, we cancanvass this list for the needed subscriptions.
Tomorrow I will canvass the community for volunteers to do this work.
A band of stout canvass sewed on the sail across, with points in it, and earings at each end for reefing.
The rope which goes round a sail, and to which the canvass is sewed.
An additional piece of canvass attached to the foot of a jib, or a schooner's foresail, by lacings.
A piece ofcanvass laced to the bonnet of a sail, to give it more drop.
Oars are muffled by putting mats or canvass round their looms in the row-locks.
A piece of canvass sewed into the centre of a sail near the head.
The fenders of a neat boat are usually made of canvass and stuffed.
A covering of canvass over a vessel's deck, or over a boat, to keep off sun or rain.
This was after a thorough canvass of the relative merits of the various reference books and helps to readers in book form.
A canvass should be made from house to house, with a short prospectus or agreement drawn up, pledging the subscribers to give a certain sum toward the foundation of a library.
After a thorough canvass of the residents of the place, a meeting of those subscribing should be called, and a statement put before them of the amount subscribed.
He immediately pulled out a canvass bag, counted down the money in gold, slily remarking to the sheriff, that they were all "good sovereigns.
At the last general election, Mr. Miall contested Halifax as the radical candidate; and his speeches during the canvass were only surpassed in strength and acuteness by the emanations of his own pen.
The closing of the famous European Congress will now freely permit us to canvass the work and results of the same, and to compare the sequences with the teachings of the prophets and intentions of Providence.
You see, if practically everybody is on the committees, it is awfully hard to try to find men to canvass, and it is not allowable for the captains and the committee men to canvass one another, because their gifts are spontaneous.
You might ask why they didn't canvass Mr. Smith himself, but of course they had done that at the very start, as I should have said.
The most remarkable political canvass witnessed in the country took place between Mr. Lincoln and Stephen A.
During the political canvass of 1834, Mr. Lincoln made the acquaintance of Mr. John T.
The returns he brought back from his canvass were not altogether reassuring.
My personal efforts in the canvass were mainly confined to the circulation of documents, and I did not spend a dollar to purchase a vote.
My chief concern,” he added, “is to do nothing in this canvass that I shall look back upon with an unapproving conscience.
The political canvass served the purpose of giving me a new sensation, and introducing me to new phases of human nature,--a subject which I had always great delight in studying.
Early in the presidential canvass I published a general invitation offering the free use of my immense Hippodrome pavilion to either of the great political parties, for holding mass meetings.
He was a partizan of the old administration; and the friends of the new had already set about an active canvass in behalf of John Featherhead, Esq.
While Kernan was thrown off of his guard by Van Buren's assurances that his seat would not be contested, the committee on credentials was made up; their names were known to McQuade's friends, and an active canvass was made in his behalf.
When the choice of the managers came to be made I did not feel called on to enter into a canvass or to form combinations.
I think a decision is necessary; for it is not possible to go thro' the canvass with a candidate declining.
We have not had a canvass worth anything in many years, and an incorrect canvassis worse than none.
And the conceded abandonment at the outset of the canvass of either of the two largest, especially if it be the first in electoral votes, and of metropolitan action or opinion, usually loses one or both of the others.
If it is so ruinous to be talked of for nomination, I do not see how any one can live through a canvass after a nomination.
Mr. Tilden engaged in this canvass for President Polk with more zeal than in any other except, perhaps, the last, in which he was himself a candidate, and in both instances was betrayed by his party.
In most of the counties in the State we have no local officer to help us, and no canvass can be obtained except in the way I indicate--by paying men by the day for doing it.
And if upon the ticket I shall be expected to share in the canvass more than will be possible, and subjected to those special annoyances that are peculiar to a candidate residing in this city.
In the profane subscription-trade, it costs the publisher heavily to canvass a three-dollar book; he must pay the general agent sixty per cent.
I giv Mr. Chops as comfortable a funeral as lay in my power, followed myself as Chief, and had the George the Fourth canvass carried first, in the form of a banner.
When we got up the Thames, he went ashore to see his mother in a check shirt, and canvass trowsers made out of an old royal, with a tarpaulin hat I built for him myself.
It undertook tocanvass returns without having any returns to canvass.
This was a most difficult thing, even but to think on; for I had nothing like the necessary thing to make it; I mean fine thin canvass or stuff, to searce the meal through.
In a word, I brought away all the sails first and last; only that I was fain to cut them in pieces, and bring as much at a time as I could; for they were no more useful to be sails, but as mere canvass only.
The moment I was beyond the canvass walls, however, the voice of Moric Endem met my ear, and I darted towards the spot where we had left the sentry.
My followers and horses were left at the second guard, while I and the merchants were led on foot through the canvass streets and squares to the spot where the tent of the Prince de Condé was pitched.
The following is the official canvass of the votes: Key: A.
The issue, for some time, appeared to be doubtful; but the close of the canvass showed that the democratic nominee had been elected.
The canvass resulted in the choice of Pedraza; but the friends of Guerrero soon set up a claim in his favor, alleging that, in taking the votes, he was defeated solely by fraud.
Her lodgers are mostly fellows that canvass for different kinds of things; they wear shiny coats and their shoes are mostly run down at the heels.
Mr. Hertz is an inspector of the people who canvass for the city directory; he took the parlor after Mr. Spatola gave it up.
As the election of 1864 approached to test the success of his generalship, he had to fight not only for a majority in the general canvassbut for the nomination by his own party.
The canvass of 1880 was fought during a prosperous summer on issues that were largely personal.
In the last week of the canvass Parker charged that the trusts were supporting Roosevelt, and that the reform demands were only a pose.
At the very end of the canvass a chance remark may have decided the result.
There was doubt throughout the canvass as to the nature of the issue, and when the votes were counted there was equal doubt as to which of the candidates had been elected.
The canvass over, Roosevelt departed from an old precedent, left the territory of the United States, and visited the Isthmus of Panama to inspect the work on the canal.
