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Example sentences for "canvasser"

Lexicographically close words:
canvases; canvasman; canvasmen; canvass; canvassed; canvassers; canvasses; canvassing; canwyll; cany
  1. Why, it quite preys upon his mind to think that he is linked to an advertisement canvasser with a gorgeous imagination, who goes about representing to the unwary Christian that the Flag has a circulation of fifteen hundred.

  2. The advertisement canvasser is a more important man than the editor.

  3. In vain the voice of Mr Canvasser Bloom was heard endeavouring to urge, to mollify, to refrain.

  4. Canvasser FULDA moved to lay the resolution on the table--lost.

  5. In short, the canvasser must not feed the voter in any way.

  6. When a canvasser says that if the opposition candidate gets in the country will be ruined, he is threatening the voters with certain consequences.

  7. The canvasser creeps to the house of his fellow-conspirator carrying a make-up in a bag.

  8. Whether the voter is allowed to feed the canvasser, whether the voter may give the canvasser veal cutlets and baked potatoes, is a point of law on which I have never been able to inform myself.

  9. Of course, their canvasser called to see you, didn't he, Kenyon?

  10. Now, as I said before, although I am not the advertising canvasser of the Financial Field, I thought I would see you with reference to an advertisement for the paper.

  11. He had further sworn by all he held sacred that every canvasser who came to harry him in future should die, and had put up a notice on his office-door, "Canvassers come in at their own risk.

  12. For these reasons it had been decided to start the Cast-iron Canvasser there, and then move him on to more populous and active localities if he proved a success.

  13. The gasping, terrified bull-dog fled the scene, and the canvasser stood over his fallen foe, still intoning the virtues of his publication.

  14. Well, let's see if your ribs are cork too," and he struck the canvasser an awful blow on the fifth button of the waistcoat.

  15. He had a dog of what he called the Hold'em breed, who could tell a canvasser by his walk, and would go for him on sight.

  16. If he don't pay as a canvasser I'll take him to town and back him to fight Les Darcy.

  17. In mining localities the inhabitants were called together by beating a camp-oven lid with a pick, and the canvasser was given ten minutes in which to get out of the town alive.

  18. I was in the gallery on Monday, and can testify to the pleasantness of the little installation, to the dexterity with which customers were led there, and to the grace with which the canvasser dipped the pen in the handsome silver inkstand.

  19. The canvasser and the arrangements of the desk are of course the first consideration, but there are a number of minor observances, not one of which may be neglected.

  20. The canvasser dipped the pen in the ink for them, and he has a knack of making a refusal seem so mean.

  21. Dear Khalid: "I have succeeded in getting Mr. O'Donohue to appoint you a canvasser of the Syrian District.

  22. It was election time, we learn, and the high post of political canvasser of the Syrian District was offered to Khalid for a consideration of--but the letter which Shakib happily preserved, we give in full.

  23. I thought I'd find out things as a canvasser and never dreamed of how easy it was to get boarders to talking and find out that way.

  24. I needn't have taken the job of canvasser in the first place.

  25. Then Josie told of the job she had as a canvasser and her feeling that the detective work was going to take all her time.

  26. Rising Young Men The relation of this subject to the book canvasser is extremely suggestive.

  27. Blaine, began his career as a canvasser for a life of Henry Clay.

  28. The book canvasser haz bekum the terror of the land, and mankind hide from him az they would from the taxgatherer, or a case ov the small pox.

  29. The book canvasser iz a red hot being, az untiring az a fox hound, and az free from diffidence az a fish pedlar.

  30. He soon connected himself as a canvasser with one of the great agencies and advanced rapidly.

  31. He resented particularly the fact that one canvasser with whom he shook hands wore a bright red tie and had on yellow shoes.

  32. Each Canvasser to-day or to-morrow at the latest, will please give notice at the Committee Room, stating what Cab or Car accommodation he may require, so that proper arrangements may be made for supplying it.

  33. LORD MONCK earnestly requests that every Canvasser will zealously continue his labours until every Voter that can possibly be secured has voted, and afterwards attend at the Committee Room to aid in any other way that may be requested.

  34. I heard a canvasser say, yesterday, that while delivering eleven books he took 7 new subscriptions.

  35. I went down to see how much of a delay there was going to be, and found that the man had not even put a canvasser on, or issued an advertisement yet--in fact, that the electrotypes would not all be done for a month!


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    Other words:
    solicitor; spieler; tout