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Use in Literature

Freemasons

The difference between the two is that the Thugs certainly were a criminal organization, whereas the Freemasons of our days do no harm, except to their own pockets.–Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan.

I was therefore sufficiently well acquainted with the tenets and practices of these Oriental Freemasons.–Richard Burton in Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, vol 1.

Come all you freemasons that dwell around the globe, That wear the badge of innocence, I mean the royal robe, Which Noah he did wear when in the ark he stood, When the world was destroyed by a deluging flood.–Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England

Next Wednesday is the anniversary dinner of the Royal Literary Fund Society, held in Freemasons' Hall.–Elizabeth Gaskell in Life of Charlotte Bronte (ver 2).

Under the Emperor Leopold II the Austrian government had adopted a reactionary policy toward the order of Freemasons, which was suspected of making propaganda for liberal ideas in politics and religion.–Henry Edward Krehbiel in A Book Of Operas.

There is also a sort of fraternity of freemasons, named Empacasseiros, into which no one is admitted unless he is an expert hunter, and can shoot well with the gun.–David Livingstone in Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa.

Within fifty years Christendom has been covered with Gothic churches, some of which are as beautiful as those built by Freemasons.–John Lord in Beacon Lights of History vol 3 part 1.

In the Freemasons' Lodge, Bluecher was received by numbers of ladies, on each of whom he bestowed a salute.–Wolfgang Menzel in Germany from the Earliest Period, vol 4 (tr Mrs George Horrocks).

The Freemasons, with whom he had placed himself in close communication, appear to have greatly influenced his election.–Wolfgang Menzel in Germany from the Earliest Period, vol 4 (tr Mrs George Horrocks).

The Royal College of Surgeons verified this record many years ago, and it was subsequently again authenticated by the authorities of the Freemasons, who thereupon enshrined his portrait in their gallery as the oldest living Freemason.–Gould and Pyle in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Freemasons 1
• Nonfiction Usage 3
• Journalism Usage 3
• Bibliographic Usage 3
• Encyclopedic Usage 22
• Lexicographic Usage 25
• Index 33