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From the small stage a member of Parliament from Ms. Souhail’s alliance sounded suspiciously as if he were stumping for votes, which is against the salon’s rules.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2010

Yet he and his Cabinet colleagues were stumping the countryside, pleading with the German people to abide by the Parliament's decision and accept the call to arms when it came.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the Eisenhower men were thus expressing confidence, Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft and his managers and organizations were stumping around the U.S. scooping up pledged delegates.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indiana sent for him, Wisconsin also, while Norman B. Judd and Ebenezer Peck, who were stumping Iowa, sent for him to come there.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.

Long before the time for the general elections had come, the Patriot candidates were stumping the country.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin