Circuit Riding

They also studied denominations, deciding the church would remain unaffiliated, although circuit-riding Methodist ministers held services there for many years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Beginning in 1989, Dr. Reynolds had been the circuit-riding medical examiner for eight counties in Washington and Idaho. ❋ Ann Rule (2010)

Elsewhere, prints, lithographs and newspaper clippings recount his rise from circuit-riding prairie lawyer to national statesman. ❋ Ryan Cole (2010)

Reagan's Omaha appearances were part of his arrangement with GE, which allowed him to be an old-fashioned circuit-riding preacher, warning against the evils of big government and Communism, while praising the virtues of big business and the free market. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The circuit-riding era slowly passed on; it was colorful and romantic, and hence its importance was easy to exaggerate. ❋ Lawrence M. Friedman (1985)

Or the one where Audubon meets the circuit-riding Methodist preacher Lorenzo Dow and the outlaw James Murrell on the Natchez Trace. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Only circuit courts could hear certain serious civil and criminal cases, so these cases would back up waiting for a circuit-riding Supreme Court justice to arrive. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Lincoln, accustomed to austere accommodations from years as a circuit-riding lawyer, accepted a night on the couch instead. ❋ Unknown (2007)

These three took turns at circuit-riding and when not sitting as the supreme court. presided over the several district courts which had been established. ❋ Trish Short Lewis (2005)

The country, too, was sparsely settled; law practice was slender and unprofitable, the circuit-riding from court to court was very bad for one of his physique. ❋ Unknown (2003)

One of his most famous political opponents in Illinois was a Methodist circuit-riding preacher, Peter Cartwright, and it was Cartwright, first of all, who was his opponent for the congressional seat that he ran for in the 1840s. ❋ Unknown (2000)

A circuit-riding preacher held religious services once or twice a month, and in certain regions at a certain season religious enthusiasm found vent in a camp-meeting, but religion often had little effect on habits and morals. ❋ Henry Kalloch Rowe (N/A)

There was much that was irritating and uncomfortable in the circuit-riding of the Illinois court, but there was more which was amusing to a temperament like Lincoln's. ❋ Unknown (1868)