liberty-pole

Sometimes he smiled, and it was good to see; but when he straightened himself up like a liberty-pole, and the lightning begun to flicker out from under his eyebrows, you wanted to climb a tree first, and find out what the matter was afterwards.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

About sixty barrels of flour were broken open, a large quantity of cannon-balls thrown into the wells, the liberty-pole cut down, and the court-house set on fire.

The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson

In my youth, this feeling was simply a spirit of adventure; but as I grew older it deepened into a reverence for what those old bells said, and a love for the principle of which that old liberty-pole is now only a crumbling symbol.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

This flag was suspended on the Fourth of July last by a patriotic sailor, who climbed to the top of the tree to which he attached it, cutting away the branches as he descended, until it stood among its stately brethren a beautiful moss-wreathed liberty-pole, flinging to the face of heaven the glad colors of the Free.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

Davis had never seen that old liberty-pole, and never heard the chimes which still ring out from that old belfry?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

What a profound influence had those liberty-pole festivals so assiduously promoted by men like Samuel Adams and Alexander MacDougall: "for they tinge the minds of the people; they impregnate them with the sentiments of liberty; they render the people fond of their leaders in the cause, and averse and bitter against all opposers."

Beginnings of the American People Carl Lotus Becker 1909

It is proposed to erect a first-class liberty-pole in the school-yard at

The Flag Homer Greene 1896

The American flag flapped in the breeze from the tall liberty-pole which then stood at the midst of the cross-roads where Main and Pioneer streets intersect.

The Story of Cooperstown Ralph Birdsall 1894

But they cut down the liberty-pole, set fire to the court-house, spiked a few cannon, and emptied some barrels of flour.

Stories of Later American History Wilbur Fisk Gordy 1891

Albert and the oroide gold pants and the amalgamated copper hat, that carried the combination meat-axe, ice-pick, and liberty-pole, and used to stand on the first landing as you go up to the Little

Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886