Canvassing was not without its humorous phases during the perilous times of reconstruction.
I must set out on a canvassing expedition, to court the sweet voices of my interesting constituency.
But is there no honorable way to serve the public without engaging in personal quarrels with insignificant individuals, or submitting to the drudgery of canvassing votes for an election?
But is there no honorable way to serve the public without engaging in personal quarrels with insignificant individuals, or submitting to the drudgery of canvassing votes for an election.
A negro who was canvassing for Rapier, the negro congressman, was told by a white: "You might as well quit.
Bingham in canvassing Mr. Ashley's district under the employment of the State Republican Committee.
But I will ask whether the Home Secretary is aware that Salt has been quietly engaged in canvassing the provinces for a month, and whether he has any information about his object and results.
I went down to a West Country place where there was shortly afterwards an election, at which I enjoyed myself very much canvassing for the Liberal candidate.
The rather singular incident which happened to me then, and which some recent events have recalled to me, happened while the canvassing was still going on.
No man could have been in his "labors more abundant" than he in this canvassing for the new college.
The truth is, my allusion to this topic at all arose from the vivid recollection I still have of the great fun I derived from this canvassing of my companions in support of their opinions previously expressed.
Finally, the hearty zeal of the young in canvassing for votes, appearing at various places, bringing intelligence, and being in attendance on you in public are surprisingly important as well as creditable.
To my mind there are indications of its being a later composition, the exercise of some one who wished to shew the nature of canvassing at the time.
But canvassingis very Christian in its primary idea.
To say that canvassing is Christian may seem quite crazy.
They appeared to be always excited about canvassing and electing.
I would not have submitted to the task of canvassing it, if gentlemen had not thrown the gauntlet with the air of sturdy defiance.
I had no intention, sir, of canvassing very strictly this report.
They say in Silverbridge that you are canvassing for Mr. Lopez.
I begin, just as that canvassing rascal said, a long way from Vandemark Township, and many years ago in point of time; but I am afloat with my prow toward the setting sun on that wonderful ribbon of water which led to the West.
His agents, no doubt, when canvassing made as much capital as they could out of the credentials which Mr. Costello had originally received from the Fire Department.
Mr. Costello had several agents canvassing for orders for the book, and for advertisements.
His saloon, as he somewhat ostentatiously called it, was the rendezvous for the idlers of a fashionable world, who spent their mornings canvassing the last gossip of the city and devising new extravagances in dress.
I read it over and over, weighing and canvassingevery word, and torturing each syllable; but all to no purpose.
Thoughts, by long revolving, often become only the more entangled, and we lose sight of the real difficulty in canvassing our own impressions concerning it.
I think that book Lois is canvassing for is just lovely," she added artfully, as she helped herself to cake.
The matter was fast becoming a national issue, and Churchwomen without number were canvassing all England with petitions asking Parliament to remember that England was a Christian nation.
