Or they were fighting a sturdy battle with the king's justices to preserve some ancient privilege, the right of the borough perhaps to "swear by itself,"that is, to a jury of its own or its freedom from the general custom of "frank-pledge."

The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence.

After a time the day would come again, would look with franker eyes upon this scene of horror.

For never was there a franker heart; nor a man so ready to accuse himself.

He took a frank pleasure in the death of his contemporaries, and an even franker pleasure in the deaths of his juniors.

No franker sign of their love had ever passed between them.