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  • Along the way she meets a dying man who warns her to be careful as nothing is quite like it seems as freetrader smugglers, English operatives and the French work coastal Suffolk while the two countries are at war.

    The Blackstone Key-Rose Melikan « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008

  • One of the three player classes for “nationals” French, Spanish, English is the “freetrader”, many of whose skills seem to confer economic advantages.

    The Cookie Monster Economy and "Guild Socialism" 2008

  • One of the three player classes for “nationals” French, Spanish, English is the “freetrader”, many of whose skills seem to confer economic advantages.

    May 2008 2008

  • One of Sir Robert Peel's biographers, evidently a great admirer of his, says of him that he was a freetrader in principle long before 1845 [69]; whilst his enemies assert, that having been placed by the Tory party at the head of a Protectionist Government, he betrayed that party and suddenly threw himself into the arms of the Corn Law League.

    The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

  • Originally a Conservative, he had become a freetrader with Sir Robert Peel, and for the next few years was a prominent member of the Peelite party.

    Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous

  • Originally a Conservative, he had become a freetrader with Sir Robert Peel, and for the next few years was a prominent member of the Peelite party.

    Queen Victoria Anonymous 1901

  • If Britain has at any time since complained of American protective policy, she must remember that it was inherited by British colonies, and was fostered by a desire to retaliate on her with her own methods before she became a freetrader.

    The United States of America, Part 1 Edwin Erle Sparks 1892

  • But one of our pleasantest memories was of a day spent with the great freetrader and Mrs. Reid at their Strathfield home.

    An Autobiography Catherine Helen Spence 1867

  • The dauntless freetrader instantly weighed anchor and bore down right between the luggers, so close that he tossed his hat on the deck of the one and his wig on that of the other, hoisted a cask to his maintop, to show his occupation, and bore away under an extraordinary pressure of canvass, without receiving injury.

    Guy Mannering 1815

  • The dauntless freetrader instantly weighed anchor and bore down right between the luggers, so close that he tossed his hat on the deck of the one and his wig on that of the other, hoisted a cask to his maintop, to show his occupation, and bore away under an extraordinary pressure of canvass, without receiving injury.

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

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