dynamitard

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But then he is responding to the appeals of a clamant and not over-particular stomach, while your dynamitard is occasionally a well-fed barbarian with a queasy palate FLY-FISHING The neatest and most artistic method by which the blacks kill fish necessitates the employment of a particular species of spider known to the learned as NEPHILA MACULATA PISCATORUM.

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  1. Same as dynamiter. If Ireland is to be turned into a Crown Colony, she must be put under martial law; and even that will be no defence against the attacks of dynamitards by whom we may be struck at home. British Quarterly Rev., LXXXIII. 411. The associate guild of assassins — the nihilist and the dynamitard. N. A. Rev., CXXXVIII. 344.

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  • But then he is responding to the appeals of a clamant and not over-particular stomach, while your dynamitard is occasionally a well-fed barbarian with a queasy palate FLY-FISHING The neatest and most artistic method by which the blacks kill fish necessitates the employment of a particular species of spider known to the learned as NEPHILA MACULATA PISCATORUM. —  Tropic Days
  • Anarchist THE CRIER: (Loudly) Whereas Leopold Bloom of no fixed abode is a wellknown dynamitard, forger, bigamist, bawd and cuckold and a public nuisance to the citizens of Dublin and whereas at this commission of assizes the most honourable (His Honour, sir Frederick Falkiner, recorder of Dublin, in judicial garb of grey stone rises from the bench, stonebearded. —  Ulysses
  • But even an apostolic dynamitard must eat. —  A Son of the Immortals
  • Émile Henry, the dynamitard of the Café Terminus, belonged to the number of what I may call the theoretical dynamitard. —  A Girl Among the Anarchists
  • Émile Henry was representative of the theoretical dynamitard; Matthieu, like Ravachol, of the dynamitard by passion. —  A Girl Among the Anarchists
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  1. from French dynamitard; as dynamite + -ard.
 

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