Candidates

Examples

• The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The National Whig Convention, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President, met at Baltimore on May 1, 1844. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We discussed his chances, the merits of the other candidates, and the dispositions of the voters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Duke of----, and Mr. Ryland, Lord Raymond's old antagonist, were the other candidates. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• In a way the battle resembles a tug-of-war in which each of the two leading candidates is trying to pull the nation over to his favorite issue. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The efforts to kill off politically the two successful generals, made them both candidates for the Presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The citizens, therefore, who had no land, had scarce any other means of subsistence but the bounties of the candidates at the annual elections. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There was no want of distinguished and noble candidates to fill up the ranks on either side. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Four rejected candidates. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They are looked upon as candidates; they are placed on the waiting list. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• You do not know how many candidates there always are for the _first_ situations. Jane Austen. Emma.
• But the conspicuous candidates do decide what direction thought shall take about this condition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I wanted, as between these candidates, to see Mr. Lincoln elected. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I myself have seen two or three candidates break a limb. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The modern citizen's voice in public affairs is limited to the right to vote for one or other of the party candidates put before him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• No--I don't think either of my candidates would answer to that description, said Mrs. Fisher after a pause of reflection. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Edited by Lester