Do we say pole or poll

pole 2288 occurrences

And I had dreamedMeanwhile, de Vere and de la Pole are at the King day and night, urging revolt.

Presently she said: "This means more war, for de Vere and Tressilian and de la Pole and Bramber and others of the barons know that the King's fall signifies their ruin.

They saw this Exton strike the King with his pole-axe, from behind, once only, and they knew no more was needed.

MACMILLAN, DONALD BAXTER. Etah and beyond; or, Life within twelve degrees of the Pole, with illus.

<pb id='220.png' n='1957h2/A/1560' /> Lost at the South Pole.

The totem pole.

Hereupon the fellow returns with his pole, with which he would have ended his days, had not the poor man avoided the blow when fetching his musket, he knocked down the villain that began the quarrel.

And thus, with a mast made of a long pole, and a sail of six large goat-skins dried, having a fair breeze, and a flood-tide with them, they merrily sailed away, the Spaniards calling after them, Bon voyaje, no man ever expecting to see them more.

All the familiar continental markings and the masses of the seas remain intact, and indeed the only difference seems to be a shrinkage of the white discolouration (supposed to be frozen water) round either pole.

"We fished with a stock pole and a twine string.

(Glory from the congregation) Let um go to de Norf Pole, or to de Souf Pole, to de West Pole, or to de East Pole, or de Poles in any ob de words; he ant a bit safer den he would be in a cellar at 5 pints, wid ole Hays arter him!

(Glory from the congregation) Let um go to de Norf Pole, or to de Souf Pole, to de West Pole, or to de East Pole, or de Poles in any ob de words; he ant a bit safer den he would be in a cellar at 5 pints, wid ole Hays arter him!

(Glory from the congregation) Let um go to de Norf Pole, or to de Souf Pole, to de West Pole, or to de East Pole, or de Poles in any ob de words; he ant a bit safer den he would be in a cellar at 5 pints, wid ole Hays arter him!

(Glory from the congregation) Let um go to de Norf Pole, or to de Souf Pole, to de West Pole, or to de East Pole, or de Poles in any ob de words; he ant a bit safer den he would be in a cellar at 5 pints, wid ole Hays arter him!

but I gotta a long pole an' got it on him

sport, the contestants made use of a hurtling pole, which was a small rigid-pole about 12 feet in length.

sport, the contestants made use of a hurtling pole, which was a small rigid-pole about 12 feet in length.

The jumper would take a long running start, which would enable him to take on additional momentum; and with the assistance of the hurtling pole, would leap over a hurdle that was placed a considerable elevation above the ground.

We crossed the Totopotomoy Creek near Pole Green Church, far above the place where Jones and I had crossed it on the 23rd, and then took to the woods up the creek swamp, the head of which, I had ascertained from the map, was at the west of the railroad.

At Grand Halleux they set up a pole called makral or "the witch," in the midst of the pile, and the fire is kindled by the man who was last married in the village.

An Avarétz was climbing up to a steep cliff on the left, by means of a spiked pole, fixing it into the crevices, and then, supporting himself on a prong, he lifted himself higher.

Ammalát Bek, thin, pale, and pensive, was resting his head against the tent-pole, smoking a pipe.

Instead of using a single wire for his aerial, he erected many tall poles and strung a number of wires from pole to pole.

Instead of using a single wire for his aerial, he erected many tall poles and strung a number of wires from pole to pole.

The Elder facetiously replied, "Fix a point in the centre of Winnebago Marsh," since called Lake Horicon, "and draw a line to the north pole, and another due west to the Rocky Mountains, and you will have your eastern and southern boundaries.

poll 270 occurrences

A poll-tax, from which the nation in the olden times was freed, was levied on Israelite and Canaanite alike.

" "She shall have a cracker," said good-natured Mr. Bright; and Rosa and little Lila were soon furnished with a cracker and a lump of sugar for Poll.

[Statistics] dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll call, recapitulation; account &c (list) 86.

V. number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up; tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute^, add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots.

The only tax which the Filipinos pay is the poll-tax, known as the tributo, which originally, three hundred years ago, amounted to one dollar for every pair of adults, and in a country where all marry early, and the sexes are equally divided, really constituted a family-tax.

The Jews bought off this right in 1160 by paying a certain sum to the Vicomte de Béziers, and by promising an annual poll-tax to him and to his successors.

That since he hath appeared to her in the shape of a man, and did so on Wednesday sevennight past, but more usually he appears in the likeness of a dog, and cat, and a fly like a miller, in which last he usually sucks in the poll, about four of the clock in the morning, and did so January 27, and that it usually is pain to her to be so suckt."

Garrick's assertion, that he "wrote like an angel but talked like poor Poll," expresses the unanimous opinion of all who had actually seen him.

What was the good of improving the condition of Tom and Sal, if Tom and Sal, in consequence of the improvement, went their way and in a few years produced Dick, Poll, Bill, and Meg, who proceeded to eat up the improvement, and in a generation produced sixteen other devourers hungrier than themselves?

We have young people who dodge voting because of the poll tax.

In the case of a poll-tax there would be no difficulty.

Masters have taken care of themselves, and got rid of the abomination; so have upper servants; but so wedded are some people to the habit, that they still continue to pay a poll-tax of 1l.

"You've learnt your gun drill," he said, "learned it like a sulphur-crested cockatoo learns to gabble 'Pretty Polly scratch a poll'; why in the name of Moses you can't make your hands do what your tongue says 'as me beat.

A poll tax of one dollar a year was levied on each male adult, to be collected from the chiefs of the several districts; with a part of the funds thus raised schools for popular instruction were to be established throughout the country.

Perhaps it looked the more beautiful because contrasted with the shaven gray poll and surly features of grim Abonus.

Photographed from the original poll-book, now on file in the county clerk's office, Springfield, Illinois.

The judges and clerks sat at a table with the poll-book before them.

There ought to be a poll-tax on bores.

(In American magazine, Aug. 1945) Now entitled Gallup poll.

Democracy begins at home: the Tennessee fight on the poll tax.

In Holland's Suetonius, p. 169: "Likewise to get, to pill and poll by hooke and crooke so much, as that" In a letter of Sir Richard Morysin to the Privy Council, in Lodges Illustrations, &c., i. 154: "Ferrante Gonzaga, d'Arras, and Don Diego, are in a leage, utterlie bent to myslyke, and to charge by hook or by crooke, anything don, or to be don, by the thre fyrst.

When ready to start, mother and sister Poll came out to see us off and to give us their best wishes, hoping we would have good health, and find pleasant paths to follow.

The blade was two inches wide and three inches longthe poll two inches long and about as large round as a dime; handle eighteen or twenty inches long with a knob on the end so it would not easily slip from the hand.

"If he does not, I should be glad to take a poll, if I thought my chance tolerably good."

As a result, the poll showed Swearingen elected by two hundred and seventy votes, and Washington defeated with but forty ballots.

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