Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See Tree of Liberty, under tree.

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  • On the 20th of June, about eleven o'clock in the morning, nearly all the inhabitants of the faubourgs Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, where the populace chiefly lived, marched in a body to the National Assembly, to go from there to the garden and plant the liberty-tree.

    The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912

  • The former showed Freedom in the center; Justice with a sword and balance; the Stars and Stripes being torn from a liberty-tree, with a snake winding about it; an aged man labeled Buchanan asleep on a big book; and a gentleman named Floyd counting a bag of money; on the other side

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • Two utter strangers appeared in a theatrical way at its doors, and suggested in writing to the Great Council that to appease the spirit of the times they should plant the liberty-tree on the Place of St. Mark, and speedily accede to all the propositions for liberalizing

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889

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