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Definition of Freelances
1. freelance [v] - See also: freelance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freelances
Literary usage of Freelances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Saint Catherine of Siena and Her Times by Margaret Roberts (1906)
"Catherine knew it well; it was not only in Val di Chiana, but in many other parts
of Sienese territory that the freelances " took very great spoil of ..."
2. The German War Book: Being "The Usages of War on Land" by John Hartman Morgan (1915)
"Also the organization of troops and the assembling of " freelances " on the
territory of neutral States is not allowed by the law of nations. ..."
3. The Story of the Expansion of Southern Africa by Alexander Wilmot (1895)
"take side and fight after the fashion of the freelances of the middle ages. ...
Nevertheless, the Goshen freelances sallied forth against the town of ..."
4. The War Book of the German General Staff, Being "The Usages of War on Land by John Hartmann Morgan (1915)
"Also the organization of troops and the assembling of " freelances" on the
territory of neutral States is not allowed by the law of nations.2 2. ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"At the conclusion of the Breton war he and some of his freelances enlisted in
the sen-ice i of Henry of ..."
6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"... so that any freebooting adventurer could recruit his freelances to harry the
outposts and cut off the convoys of the Moghul army, to seize a fort, ..."
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