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Example sentences for "free man"

  • The Earl said: "Well, so it shall be then; and presently thou shalt go out of this guard-room a free man.

  • A Lacedemonian, happening to be in Athens (where idleness was forbidden) during the punishment of a citizen who had been found guilty, asked to see the Athenian thus condemned for having exercised the rights of a free man.

  • A free man is one who enjoys the use of his reason and his faculties; who is neither blinded by passion, nor hindered or driven by oppression, nor deceived by erroneous opinions.

  • A defender of equality, I shall speak without bitterness and without anger; with the independence becoming a philosopher, with the courage and firmness of a free man.

  • There are no slaves under the Union Jack he has been told--that is the flag of freedom; the moment he gets under it he is a free man.

  • When the judge had finished, the man put his hand in his bosom, pulled out a document, and walked out of the dock a free man.

  • One minute he is a slave, and in an instant he is a free man.

  • Owen Cavanagh, a free man, had a boat which he employed in transporting grain from the Hawkesbury to Sydney.

  • Especially had Scoville scoffed at the negro's superstitions, telling him that a fool afraid of spooks was neither fit to be a free man nor a soldier.

  • The chief wished to imprint strongly on their minds his own dignity and power; he said he was greater than the governor of Jenna, inasmuch as the latter was a slave to the king of Katunga, but himself was a free man.

  • The forest law stated that: "he that doth hunt a wild beast and doth make him pant, shall pay 10 shillings: If he be a free man, then he shall pay double.

  • No one may bind a free man, shave his head in derision, or shave off his beard.

  • DEAR SIR:--Lunsford Lane, a free man of color, has been in the employ of the State under me since my entering on my present situation.

  • Winston had spared no effort to find Elijah and to deliver to him another message to the effect that he was once more a free man.

  • So far as I am concerned, Mr. Berl is a free man with no shadow of fear.

  • Gunnar spoke and said that was little man-scathe, "but yet he was a free man.

  • Hallgerda said to Gunnar, "Hast thou paid a hundred in silver for Atli's slaying, and made him a free man?

  • Thou shalt be atoned for as a free man; but perhaps Bergthora will make thee a promise which she will fulfil, that revenge, man for man, shall be taken for thee.

  • If thou hadst had a free man as father, thou wouldst not have been sold twice for a petty sum.

  • They feared that Joseph had been stolen in the land of the Hebrews, though sold to them as a slave, and if his kinsmen should find him with them, death would be inflicted upon them for the abduction of a free man.

  • The property is mine, and government cannot touch a penny of it; yet I would willingly give all that I possess to be at liberty to call myself a free man, and to know that I am no longer watched by those in power.

  • A day or a week was nothing to us, if Smith could be made a free man.

  • I am comparatively a free man; but if any unfavorable report should be heard concerning me, farewell to my present liberty.

  • I supposed that the final separation, mutually agreed upon between my wife and myself, was as effectual as all the courts in the country could make it, and I looked upon myself as a free man.

  • Then meet me at eleven o'clock by that big tree near the road yonder, and I'll take you with me to Canada, where you'll be a free man.

  • I wrote immediately informing him of the previous efforts to search out his whereabouts, and that his pursuers at that date (1853) alleged that he was a free man, and had never been a slave.

  • He had disposed of his purchases and was a free man.

  • The Warden was in London, a free man, and there was the umbrella in the corner of the room, hers.

  • I shall fight this affair; for if it hadn't been for me, Jim would still be a free man.

  • I'm afraid that now he is Warden he has lost the chance of becoming a free man.

  • He stood there by the hearth, a free man still.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "free man" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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