freemasonry

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  i think freemasonry is much more dangerous

• “The really bad party system is that in which a man is caught so tightly and becomes so deeply involved in party loyalty, or what may be called the freemasonry side of politics, that he grows into feeling a kind of moral obligation to stick to his party, right or wrong.”

  The Adventure of Living

• “It was my initiation into what I have termed the freemasonry of the race.”

  The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

• “Here a tall gentleman marched up to him, and addressed him in a certain language, which might be called the freemasonry of flash, and which Paul, though he did not comprehend”

  Paul Clifford — Volume 02

• “Here a tall gentleman marched up to him, and addressed him in a certain language, which might be called the freemasonry of flash, and which Paul, though he did not comprehend verbatim, rightly understood to be an inquiry whether he was a thorough rogue and an entire rascal.”

  Paul Clifford — Complete

• “Capturing Kabul through proxy war in 1997 while a ragtag freemasonry of Mujahideen was defending Kabul was one thing.”

  Bloggers.Pakistan

• “Jim is a friend from childhood—they “grew up together in the same Nebraska town,” sharing a “kind of freemasonry”—and is now the legal counsel for a railroad company.”

  The meaning of patriotism

• “His profession furnished me with some hope that this desired communication might be attained; since it is well known that, in Scotland, where there is so much national music, the words and airs of which are generally known, there is a kind of freemasonry amongst performers, by which they can, by the mere choice of a tune, express a great deal to the hearers.”

  Redgauntlet

• “The secret is well kept, doubtless by a kind of freemasonry amongst bearded men, but there can be little doubt that somewhere there are nurseries where a _bonâ-fide_ beard-grower who is in the secret can retire until he is presentable.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919

• “There seemed to be a kind of freemasonry between them; they were wider awake than she, more alert, and surer of their wants if not of their opinions.”

  The Reef; a novel

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