Lincoln, accustomed to austere accommodations from years as a circuit-riding lawyer, accepted a night on the couch instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

Elsewhere, prints, lithographs and newspaper clippings recount his rise from circuit-riding prairie lawyer to national statesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln Brought to Life] Reference

Or the one where Audubon meets the circuit-riding Methodist preacher Lorenzo Dow and the outlaw James Murrell on the Natchez Trace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Lady, World-Class Storyteller] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fenian Invasion of 1871] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Federal Judges Appointing Prosecutors:] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brokaw: An Excerpt from Boom! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the Sixties and Today] Reference

Downey, for the next six months, is a circuit-riding preacher.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In many ways this is the circuit-riding preacher model renewed by technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheResurgence] Reference

With a circuit-riding rabbi visiting on this Friday night, about 80 Catholics.    From Wordnik.com.  [hattiesburgamerican.com -] Reference

With a circuit-riding rabbi visiting this Friday night, about 80 Catholics, Episcopalians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News Tribune Blogs] Reference

Congress, his Democratic opponent was Peter Cartwright, a circuit-riding Methodist preacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart] Reference

Something of a modern-day circuit-riding preacher, he served three United Methodist churches simultaneously.    From Wordnik.com.  [SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines] Reference

The son of a circuit-riding preacher, he was accustomed to moving from place to place; but when he settled, he settled for good.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArchivesBlogs] Reference

This center has a full-time doctor, two other circuit-riding doctors including a pediatrician, a two-day-a-week dentist and a nurse practitioner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arkansas News] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

Bouck was born Sept. 5, 1868 in Independence, Iowa, the son of John Stacy Bouck, a Methodist circuit-riding minister and farmer, and Elizabeth Dawson (Elliott) Bouck.    From Wordnik.com.  [OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media'] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference

Evidently the Pro Life News editor doesn't understand something that the abortion lobby is capable of understanding: Most abortionists are circuit-riding quacks who can't get local hospital privileges.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealChoice] Reference

But now I realize that this is NOT the girl I can embarrass -- if Chelsea is sixteen, she cannot be the baby we dedicated (a Unitarian-Universalist form of baptism) during my circuit-riding ministry years between 1983 and 1985.    From Wordnik.com.  [prairiemary] Reference

One of the most rewarding items Bertoni remembers is the work he did with Darrell Knauer on bringing the story of the Cast Iron Tombstone Trial, a case that involved circuit-riding lawyer Abraham Lincoln, back to life through a drama that's staged from time to time in the Mount Pulaski courthouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln Courier Homepage RSS] Reference

Plus there's all the usual circuit-riding stuff. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Brightly Burning]

"circuit-riding" personnel who travel to smaller communities for temporary duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oh!pinion] Reference

He’s a YHC graduate and former professor at the small Methodist school, which was founded in 1886 by a circuit-riding minister.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Institutions and Individuals:] Reference

"Often and often before your poor father died he said he'd never have been able to keep on with the circuit-riding and the preaching if he'd had to depend on any other horse than Pilgrim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benefits Forgot A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love] Reference

Now, with Dylan looking like a world-weary circuit-riding preacher who's just emgerged from the haunted woods, his voice floated through the Brady, filled with empathy for everyone with the '' workingman's blues. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Expecting Rain] Reference

Circuit-riding, 643, 309–310.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of American Law] Reference