hireless

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Off he set on a tour to the north to procure subscribers, "preaching in most of the great towns as a hireless Volunteer, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, that not a rag of the Woman of Babylon might be seen on me."

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  1. Without hire; not rewarded; gratuitous. This fam′d philosopher is Nature's spie, And hireless gives th’ intelligence to Art. Sir W. Davenant, Gondibert, i. 6.

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  • Off he set on a tour to the north to procure subscribers, "preaching in most of the great towns as a hireless Volunteer, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, that not a rag of the Woman of Babylon might be seen on me." —  Famous Reviews
  • Shall I not be an Agriculturist, an Husband, a Father, and a 'Priest' after the order of 'Peace'? an 'hireless' Priest? —  Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
  • _ Off he set on a tour to the north to procure subscribers, "preaching in most of the great towns as a hireless —  Famous Reviews
  • Coleridge set off on a tour to the north, from Bristol to Sheffield, for the purpose of procuring customers, preaching Unitarian sermons by the way in most of the great towns, "as an hireless volunteer in a blue coat and white waistcoat that not a rag of the woman of Babylon might be seen on me." —  English Men of Letters: Coleridge
  • Bristol to Sheffield, for the purpose of procuring customers, preaching by the way in most of the great towns, as an hireless volunteer, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, that not a rag of the woman of Babylon might be seen on me. —  Biographia Literaria
 

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