free-masonry

“The Windhover” became a study of language, of landscape, of the free-masonry of falconry, and of theology.

“The Windhover” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

We stand for a new principle in the world, we stand for sheer, categorical, definitive antithesis to the world of democracy, plutocracy, free-masonry, to the world which still abides by the fundamental principles laid down in 1789.

Things One Should Not Forget « Whatever 2008

In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend mutual aid.

Les Miserables 2008

If they see a person in company, though a perfect stranger, who is by nature fond of children, the little imps seem to discover it by a sort of free-masonry, while the awkward attempts of those who make advances to them for the purpose of recommending themselves to the parents, usually fail in attracting their reciprocal attention.

The Abbot 2008

I have been of the people myself; I have seen the Irish rebellion, and I know what is the free-masonry of the poor.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

The aim of a good liberal-arts scholar was once, to adapt an observation by the scholar Walter Jackson Bate, to see that "we need not be the passive victims of what we deterministically call 'circumstances' (social, cultural, or reductively psychological-personal), but that by linking ourselves through what Keats calls an 'immortal free-masonry' with the great we can become freer -- freer to be ourselves, to be what we most want and value."

The recommended daily allowance M-mv 2004

The aim of a good liberal-arts scholar was once, to adapt an observation by the scholar Walter Jackson Bate, to see that "we need not be the passive victims of what we deterministically call 'circumstances' (social, cultural, or reductively psychological-personal), but that by linking ourselves through what Keats calls an 'immortal free-masonry' with the great we can become freer -- freer to be ourselves, to be what we most want and value."

Archive 2004-11-01 M-mv 2004

But how, without money, intimates, a more familiar understanding of the medical or if not that exactly, then the sub rosa world of sexual free-masonry which some at times — the bell - hops of the Green – Davidson, for instance, seemed to understand.

An American Tragedy 2004

“Purrah” of the Sherbro – Balloms or Bulloms, rendered Anglicè by “free-masonry.”

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Upon free-masonry, German espionage, morphinomania, Léon Daudet builds up, day by day, a fantastic fairy-tale which turns out to be the barest truth.

The Captive 2003