Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.
And when he polled his hair (now he was polled once a year, because his hair was burdensome to him) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred sicles, according to the common weight.
He shaved off one half of his beard and moustache, and caused the half of his head to be polled likewise.
He put upon him a habit of religion; he shaved his crown, and caused his hair to be polled close to his head.
He polled a vote at every three proclamations, when Mr. Donaldson had no more to bring forward; and on the fourteenth day he defeated him by a majority of ONE!
They asked for the maintenance of the Union as it was; but in the ensuing election they polled three hundred thousand fewer votes than Fillmore had received in 1856.
Johnstone, Governor of Dominica, by twenty-seven over the Hawkins candidate, who polled only thirteen.
The Bovril Company also keeps Polled Angus, but finds the Durhams unequalled for its purpose.
For instance, the Republican party, at the general election, polled something like five hundred and fifty votes, and yet at the primary the two factions polled seven hundred and twenty-five all told.
The Free Soil party, espousing the cause of slavery restriction, named Martin Van Buren as its presidential candidate and polled enough votes in the election of 1848 to defeat Cass, the Democratic candidate.
The large vote which he polled augured well for the future.
For it soon got about that, at a pinch, there was generally a drop of water to be found in the old polled willow in the avenue.
All the twigs stood in a circle at the top of the polled trunk and were so straight that no poplar need have been ashamed to own them.
And this, in its turn, led to the result that the polled willow was left to stand in peace among the proud poplars.
The closing of the Republican and Democratic ranks in 1912 resulted in the ousting of the Socialist city administration, although the party polled a vote considerably larger than that cast two years previously.
The election of 1892 was ominous, for the agrarian party had polled a million votes.
On this program, the Populists polled over a million votes and captured twenty-two presidential electors.
They polled about a million votes in the congressional elections of 1878.
Polk carried the State by a plurality of little more than five thousand, and Wright by ten thousand, while Stewart polled over fifteen thousand votes.
In the following month, Lord Lincoln was defeated at North Nottingham, polling only two hundred and seventeen votes against one thousand seven hundred and forty-two, polled by Lord H.
The grand total of votes polled by the different lists was divided by the total number of seats, and the distribution of seats was based upon the quotient, or "quota" thus obtained.
In Australia each of the States is polled as a separate constituency, each elector having three votes.
At the election of 1910 the Labour Party polled the highest number of votes in each of the States, and thus succeeded in returning eighteen senators, all other parties obtaining none.
Each State is polledas a separate constituency, and each elector has three votes.
Summary The system of second ballots has therefore had a considerable influence in creating that divergence between the votes polled and the seats obtained which has characterized German elections.
The number was found to be 3613, and the table given above shows that on the first count Mr. Asquith and Mr. Balfour had each polled more than a quota of votes.
More than four million votes were polled by the new third party in an independent movement that was without precedent.
With polled Suffolk cattle, "rudiments of horns can often be felt at an early age" (24/83.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "polled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
