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liberty

In its medieval sense, a franchise, or collection of privileges, granted to an individual or community by the king, and the area over which this franchise extended.

Liberty

Town and administrative headquarters of Union County, eastern Indiana, 21 km/13 mi south of Richmond; population (1990) 2,100. Farm implements and paint are manufactured here. The surrounding area produces livestock, grain, and dairy items, and the town is a transporting point.

Liberty

City and administrative headquarters of Clay County, northwest Missouri, 21 km/13 mi northeast of central Kansas City; population (1990) 20,500. In an agricultural area growing corn, wheat, and tobacco and raising livestock, it has grain elevators and is a commercial and railway transport centre.

In 1838-39 the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was imprisoned in jail here. In 1866 Liberty was the site of a famous daylight bank robbery by the James gang; the bank is now a museum. The city is the seat of William Jewell College (1849).



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For three years and a half of my life I had had all the liberty I could wish for; but now, week after week, month after month, and no doubt year after year, I must stand up in a stable night and day except when I am wanted, and then I must be just as steady and quiet as any old horse who has worked twenty years.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
"Well," said Miss Ophelia, energetically, "I know it was one of the last wishes of your husband that Tom should have his liberty; it was one of the promises that he made to dear little Eva on her death-bed, and I should not think you would feel at liberty to disregard it.
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