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A small saddle horse for ladies. Spenser. Call the host and bid him bring Charger and palfrey. Tennyson.

Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.

r arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

rgy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey.

glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

e freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank. Palfrey.

e fire is extinct. Snatching a live brand from a wigwam, Mason threw it on a matted roof. Palfrey.

Their simple engineering bridged with felled trees the streams which could not be forded. Palfrey.

the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey.

ing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. The sufficiency of chartered rights. Palfrey. The air, a chartered libertine. Shak.

ant it to be the seat of a bishop, for the word city has no other meaning in English law. Palfrey

rfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony. Palfrey.

distrust with which they felt themselves to be regarded by their compatriots in America. Palfrey.

tent knowledge of the world." Arrerbury. "Competent age." Grafton. "Competent statesmen." Palfrey. /"A competent witness." Bouvier.

of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.

s. Bacon. This was no less than a political confederation of the colonies of New England. Palfrey.

le by summons. There remained no resource but the dreadful one of convoking a parliament. palfrey.

More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. Palfrey. An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. Macaulay.

eral officer. Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. Palfrey.

. Burke. Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage. Palfrey.