"Free lance" Quotes from Famous Books
... adopt him instead of me," retorted Christopher teasingly. "Is it too late to exchange? Buy him a senior partnership and leave me a free lance." ... — Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... be at any king's beck and call. He would fight for Alfonso, but in his own way, holding himself free to attack whom he pleased and when he pleased, and to capture the cities of the Moslems and rule them as their lord. He had become a free lance, fighting for his own hand, while armies sprang, as it were, from the ground ... — Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris |