Corsicans

I call the Corsicans his subjects since (if the reflection may be permitted) I never met a man who carried a more authentic air of kingliness -- and I am not forgetting my own dear brother-in-law.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The family feud, the vendetta of the Corsicans, is an over-development of this force of family devotion.

Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution 1898

In vain did the French government make to General Paoli the most brilliant offers; he rejected them; he called the Corsicans to the most energetic resistance to the French occupation; and when he saw that opposition was in vain, that Corsica had to submit, he at least would not yield, and he went to England.

Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon 1843

This is, in my mind, a very good scheme; for though the Corsicans are a parcel of cruel and perfidious rascals, they will in this case be tied down to us by their own interest and their own danger; a solid security with knaves, though none with fools.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

With Troup, he joined a drill company called the Corsicans, who wore green coats and leather caps inscribed LIBERTY OR DEATH, and drilled in a churchyard.

Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

With Troup, he joined a drill company called the Corsicans, who wore green coats and leather caps inscribed LIBERTY OR DEATH, and drilled in a churchyard.

Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999

Cave-hunting savages at heart, and enemy to every man save their own blood relations, the Corsicans are the nightmare of the Arabs on account of their irreclaimable avarice and brutality.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

The leader of the Corsicans was a man of high birth, character and abilities, Pascal Paoli, who had acted since 1753 at once as their General and as the head of the civil administration.

Dr. Johnson and His Circle John Cann Bailey 1897

They say the Corsicans are the keenest-witted fellows in all these seas; and Elba is so near to

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

He is wedded to his country, and the Corsicans are his children.

Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica James Boswell 1767