The requirement of being "freeborn" harkens back to the earliest days of Freemasonry. From Wordnik.com. [Kenyan Analyst] Reference
Went the freeborn folk-queen her fond-lord to sit by. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
"You're not freeborn, boy," the Overseer rebuked him. From Wordnik.com. [Joust]
For his the bold and freeborn mind, the wisdom of a sage. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Sixty million formerly freeborn British at their disposal. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Why should a freeborn Brazilian lift dogs out of the street?. From Wordnik.com. [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference
No, gentlemen, to kill this proud, freeborn Venusian would be. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolt on Venus] Reference
I am not to be deprived of the rights of a freeborn American. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
For that seems to be more fitting for slaves than the freeborn. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
That sergeant was also as stubborn as any other freeborn Detinan. From Wordnik.com. [Advance and Retreat]
The sergeant was as plain-spoken as any other freeborn Detinan, too. From Wordnik.com. [Advance and Retreat]
The Committee on Foreign relations believed that the freeborn sons of. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Papa was freeborn and freedom I couldn't understand till I was long grown. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6] Reference
The party no longer consists of freeborn citizens; our very slaves are hired. From Wordnik.com. [A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements] Reference
A freeborn boy might get away with spying on the pleasures of his masters-a serf, never. From Wordnik.com. [Joust]
The freeborn, after consultation, resisted them and would not yield to them on any point. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form] Reference
The cause is this: All freeborn people in every age and clime have had a contempt for slaves. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889] Reference
As for those women who were freeborn and had not yet known any man, they must be sorted through. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
England boasts of her freeborn people, and her governing class, to say the least, does not love us. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
In 212 A.D. he issued an edict which bestowed citizenship on all freeborn inhabitants of the empire. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Even though he was getting a fuller belly from us than he'd had on Kythnos, I always pity a freeborn thrall. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
'You were offered a place as part of our familia, Albia Anyway, we believe you were freeborn, a Roman citizen'. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
They aren't freeborn boys with plenty of choices ahead of them, and plenty of arrogance to match their choices. From Wordnik.com. [Joust]
Most freedmen work for their former masters, as you know, for the freeborn commoners leave mighty slim pickings. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Of The Galaxy]
Supple; but he did not dare to remonstrate against a privilege which the squire claimed as a freeborn Englishman. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
Half, in fact, were freeborn, and Haraket deemed it more appropriate that they be trained by their peers instead. From Wordnik.com. [Joust]
Sparta Lycurgus forbade his freeborn citizens to have anything whatsoever to do with the concerns of money-making. From Wordnik.com. [The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians] Reference
The mere suggestion was dam foolishness and an insult to the most prominent section of the freeborn citizens of the. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21] Reference
"After this, he asks: " Is he an upright judge seeking the well-being of the country, is he freeborn and deserving?. From Wordnik.com. [The European Tribe That Inspired Thomas Jefferson's Idea Of Democracy] Reference
He must be freeborn, a Teuton, and clear of any accusation cognizable by the tribunal of which he is to become a member. —. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
A recent English writer argued that it were folly to attempt the suppression of quackery by statute; for, says he, the freeborn. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
The greeting alone told me he was freeborn, patrician, tutor-educated, army-trained, imperially patronized, and statue-endowed. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
He therefore teaches, that there are certain who are conceived and born in a servile manner; but others, as from a freeborn mother. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
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