Market-Place

A Market-Place of Ideas: This metaphor is frequently used as a self-evident truth to defend free speech, so the intention is often admirable.

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Market-Place, he found himself amidst a great body of people, some armed with clubs, others with cutlasses, and all calling for fire-arms.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

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The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916

They made their way to the Market-Place where Monmouth's declaration -- that remarkable manifesto from the pen of Ferguson -- had been read some hours before.

Mistress Wilding Rafael Sabatini 1912

But he was inconsiderate enough on the eve of the marriage -- (he had been absurdly excited as the day drew near: as excited as though it were he who was going to be married) -- he was stupid enough to be attacked by his old trouble, a recurrence of pneumonia, which had first attacked him in the days of the Market-Place.

Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905

He thought, with a little irony, (with no regret for past or fear of the future), that the song would find an echo that the singer could not foresee, and that a day would come when men would sigh for the vanished days of the Market-Place.

Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905

We didn't speak till we came into the Market-Place.

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

We had run into the Market-Place before we knew where we were; and yonder in the street at the back of it was Viola's _pension_, and here on our right hand was Jimmy's hotel, and there, towering before us, was the

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

We stood for a moment in the middle of the vast foreign Market-Place, talking in voices whose softness veiled our hostility.

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

I found him sitting tight in his hotel in the Market-Place, waiting my return with composure.

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904