The place: not some unfranchised shack but a Wheel house, where to be caught cheating could mean being banned from every Wheel establishment in a hundred light-year radius. ❋ Bayley, Barrington J. (1977)
Not that we apprehended real danger, but to our unfranchised and infant minds the chills and fevers which mayhap lurked in the mist-clothed forest, or even a wandering "cat," seemed less to be dreaded than the wild bacchanals who surrounded us. ❋ Various (N/A)
If you accept these beatitudes as the gift of your Divine Master, you will find that obedience to the precepts which follow, is not the unwilling service of a bondsman, but the free and natural action of an unfranchised spirit. ❋ Various (N/A)
'We must bring these unfranchised slaves -- the Yankees -- back to their true condition. ❋ Various (N/A)
Entirely unfranchised from ancient servitudes, and passionately loving reason and clarity, he was an example as is a prophet inspired by truths of the future -- of what may be realized in moral beauty and goodness by a free and upright spirit, of constant courage, and of a mental honesty which made him repulse what he did not understand, and place his life in accord with this dream. ❋ Unknown (1923)
English Government without sharing them with the unfranchised populace, they were therefore more concerned than before to employ only constitutional and peaceful methods of obtaining redress. ❋ Carl Lotus Becker (1909)
And the colonies were not represented in Parliament; no, not even in that "virtual" sense which might be affirmed in the case of many unfranchised English cities, such as Manchester and Liverpool; from which it followed that the Stamp Act, unquestionably an internal tax, was a manifest violation of colonial rights. ❋ Carl Lotus Becker (1909)
The prevalence of mobs; the entrance of the unfranchised populace, by means of "body" meetings and mass meetings, into the political arena; the leveling principles and the smug self-righteousness of the patriot politicians; -- all this led many a conservative to consider whether his interest were not more threatened by the insurgence of radicalism in ❋ Carl Lotus Becker (1909)
The bottom rail is on top; the newly emancipated unfranchised citizen enters upon the dignified position of United States Senator, to mingle his voice with the law-makers and to cast his vote in behalf of God and his country. ❋ Unknown (1887)
The men in the District of Columbia do not find their unfranchised condition assuaged by the smallness of their account with the assessor. ❋ Helen Kendrick Johnson (1880)
Foreign capitalists who own land or plant in the United States are unfranchised. ❋ Helen Kendrick Johnson (1880)
I thought that leaving them unfranchised without asking their consent was, in Suffrage eyes, the very front of the offending. ❋ Helen Kendrick Johnson (1880)
Does she mean to say that the lawmakers have asked the women if they would consent to remain unfranchised? ❋ Helen Kendrick Johnson (1880)
Commerce requested a code; trade required a currency; the unfranchised subject solicited his equal privilege; suffering labour clamoured for its rights; a new race demanded education. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
If he managed to sneak away unfranchised, he would want a big payday. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The mass of the voters, -- small freehold farmers in the country and "freemen" in some of the towns, -- holding themselves superior to the unfranchised, yet not claiming equality with the favored few; the tenant farmer or small shopkeeper, deferring to the freeholder and the freeman, but aware that fortune had placed him above the artisan and day laborer; the artisan and the day laborer, proud that none could call them "servant": -- these were the simple folk who in all the colonies made the great majority of free citizens. ❋ Carl Lotus Becker (1909)
Dr. Jacobi is willing to say that "in the eye of the law, the married white woman in the North was as devoid of personality as the African slave in the South," and she also says: "By another error of interpretation, certain laws which remain on the statute-book, or which have been recently added, have been considered so peculiarly favorable to women, that they are thought to prove a legislative tendency to grant special immunities to women so long as they consent to remain unfranchised." ❋ Helen Kendrick Johnson (1880)
Nor did the burghers see far enough or philosophically enough to recruit their numbers by a continuous admission of new members from the wealthy but unfranchised citizens. [ ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
[Tommy] refuses to wear [nike] [clothing], he seems to be unfranchised ❋ David Lohan (2006)
