The setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account

Usage examples of canvass.

Doris left and the crime-scene unit arrived, Adler and I waited for a warrant before canvassing the house and grounds.

Intensive canvassing of the area around the Biltmore had thus far yielded no verified sightings, the records of convicted sex loonies and registered sex offenders were still being combed, the four drool case confessors were still being held at City Jail awaiting alibi checks, sanity hearings and further questioning.

The yards hung, as seamen term it, a cockbill, or in such negligent and picturesque positions as an artist would most love to draw, while the drapery of the canvass was suspended in graceful and spotless festoons, as it had fallen by chance, or been cast carelessly from the hands of the boatmen.

The Customs shed was corrugated iron, manned by three bored workers in grimy white canvass jackets, supervised by a clerk who wore a blue guayabera shirt with CoDominium badges sewed to the epaulettes.

There was a chair and table, two easels, paints, a locked chest, and a number of canvasses stacked along the walls.

Laura and Seth canvassed in the black section of Magnolia to explain to those who were afraid to put in an appearance at the polls that they could use absentee ballots.

She could go back to Rehoboth Beach and try a door-to-door canvass of the neighbors, people Steve and Beth might have socialized with, nearby shopkeepers they patronized.

Officers had canvassed the cafes and bars she usually visited, but nobody had admitted seeing her that evening.

The canvasses of Chinatown and the surrounding areas had come up zero, one more time.

In the Dutch room, where they waited, there was a large table, with a pyramid of blank envelopes in the middle, and ever so many cubic feet of canvassing circulars, six chairs, and pens and ink.

So he got in one of the clerks who were directing the canvassing circulars, and gave him the draft, approved by his counsel, to read aloud, while he followed with his eye upon the engrossed deed.

He went into a town, persuaded an influential farmer to go about with him in a house-to-house canvass, talked to the other farmers of the vicinity, stirred them up to interest and excitement, organized a Grange, and then left the town.

On the third day of his canvass Arthur Fletcher with his gang of agents and followers behind him met Lopez with his gang in the street.

But Lopez had been by no means gratified with his canvass or with the conduct of the borough generally.

Silverbridge, in which Mr Lopez was supposed to tell them that although his canvass had promised him every success, he felt that he owed it to the borough to retire, lest he should injure the borough by splitting the Liberal interest with their much respected fellow-townsman, Mr Du Boung.