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  • Factious followers are worse to be liked, which follow not upon affection to him, with whom they range themselves, but upon discontentment conceived against some other; whereupon commonly ensueth that ill intelligence, that we many times see between great personages.

    The Essays 2007

  • Factious hatreds died out amidst universal good-fellowship, and a banquet, served on the field of battle, crowned our reconciliation with joviality.

    Satyricon 2007

  • Factious hatreds died out amidst universal good-fellowship, and a banquet, served on the field of battle, crowned our reconciliation with joviality.

    The Satyricon — Volume 04 : Escape by Sea 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Mr Blake, however, was allowed to return to his living, but 'not without the cumbrance of a _Factious Lecturer_,' and was not in full possession till after the Restoration.

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • Windings of the Factious since Sixty, in a dialogue between Whigg and

    Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 Various

  • Factious hatreds died out amidst universal good-fellowship, and a banquet, served on the field of battle, crowned our reconciliation with joviality.

    The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

  • Factious followers are worse to be liked, which follow not upon affection to him with whom they range themselves, but upon discontentment conceived against some other; whereupon commonly ensueth that ill intelligence1 that we many times see between great personages.

    XLVIII. Of Followers and Friends 1909

  • Factious opposition in the Senate forced the President to placate the Federalists by appointing William

    Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900

  • Factious quarrels broke out immediately, and the expedition would likely have broken up but for the wise conduct and pious exhortations of Mr. Robert Hunt, the preacher.

    The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Factious quarrels broke out immediately, and the expedition would likely have broken up but for the wise conduct and pious exhortations of Mr. Robert Hunt, the preacher.

    Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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