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  • All the story is too long of how I became a free-man, a citizen, and

    Chapter 17 2010

  • Thirdly, every free-man and free-woman that transport themselves and servants by the 25 of March next, being 1667, shall have for himself, wife, children, and men-servants, for each 100 acres of land for him and his heirs forever, and for every woman-servant and slave 50 acres.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • Shire and hundred courts administered local custom with the free-man suitors under the king's representative-ealdorman, shire-reeve, or hundred-reeve.

    616-80 2001

  • His rejection of it is the proof that the free-man who believes in great parties can never be bound by a class-conscious group.

    The Masques of Ottawa Domino

  • For many years before the war my father did public carting in the town of Fayetteville as a free-man, his master receiving a certain amount of his earnings.

    Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne

  • He was very open-handed and gave hospitality to any free-man for as long as he would.

    Grettir the Strong, Icelandic Saga Unknown

  • He does not deserve the name of a free-man who will not express them.

    Paras. 175-199 1909

  • Not every free-man was willing to put in jeopardy his own liberty that another might be free.

    Frederick Douglass 1906

  • There will remain civil claims on particular people for particular services, which claims may be enforced by civil action; but no person will be entitled, on the plea of being the master of another, to do anything to that other which it would be an offence to do to a free-man.

    Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 George Otto Trevelyan 1883

  • The fact of a man being ordained at once made him a free man, and a knowledge of this fact must have served as a very strong inducement to young people to avail themselves of all the helps in their power to obtain something like an education, and so to qualify themselves for admission to the clerical order and to the rank of free-man.

    The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868

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