The Inche Maida was very friendly, but the knowledge that she would perhaps be down before many hours were over at the station, made the doctor fix his time for passing in the dusk of the evening, for he did not wish his movements to reach his wife's ears sooner than he could help, nor yet to be Canvassed by his friends.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
I have mentally Canvassed our one block.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
This had always been done by the candidates in popular constituencies; and now the registration societies furnished a nucleus for the purpose, with a mass of information about the persons to be Canvassed, already acquired in making up the voting lists.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell