free-masons

The medieval free-masons who built those flimsy but often quite beautiful Gothic cathedrals it is now such a task to conserve, carried on a tradition that had never really broken with that of the pyramid builders.

The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

By the oaken boughs on the sign, and the oak leaves in the free-masons 'hats, it seems that this rejoicing night is the twenty-ninth of May, the anniversary of our second Charles's restoration; that happy day when, according to our old ballad, "The king enjoyed his own again."

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

Many of these ideas have been taken up by the free-masons, and are typified and symbolised in their initiatory ceremonies.

Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Various

When I return to India, I must be like the free-masons, silent and reserved, unless when I meet one who has been, like myself, in England, and with whom I can converse on the wonders we have both witnessed in that marvellous country, and which, if

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

Christianity, a stranger in its theological aspect to the theories of production and consumption, has been to Euro pean civilization what the trades-unions and free-masons were not long since to itinerant workmen, -- a sort of insurance company and mutual aid society; in this respect, it owes nothing to political economy, and the good which it has done cannot be invoked by the latter in its own support.

System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888

When two or three of them meet together, they are as free-masons, who are bound by a pleasant bond which separates them from the outer world.

The Eustace Diamonds 1873

Comacenes, who seem to have been a guild of architects, perhaps the original germ of the great society of free-masons -- belonging, no doubt, to the Roman population -- who were settled about the lake of Como, and were hired, on contract, (as the laws themselves express,) to build for the Lombards, who of course had no skill to make anything beyond a skin - tent or a log-hall.

Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

I shall strike three blows at intervals, after the manner of the free-masons.

The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

He had scarcely been there a moment when three blows were struck on the door after the manner of the free-masons; first two strokes and then one.

The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

When he looked at the driver, however, they seemed to be a pair of free-masons.

The Chouans Honor�� de Balzac 1824