Usage examples (27)

• Lincoln, accustomed to austere accommodations from years as a circuit-riding lawyer, accepted a night on the couch instead.
• Elsewhere, prints, lithographs and newspaper clippings recount his rise from circuit-riding prairie lawyer to national statesman.
• Or the one where Audubon meets the circuit-riding Methodist preacher Lorenzo Dow and the outlaw James Murrell on the Natchez Trace.
• 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.