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  • Partizans abandoned him: No one entertained a doubt of his guilt; and they who before had been the warmest in his praise were now the most vociferous in his condemnation.

    The Monk 2004

  • Education, his Study, his Practice, were rather mercantile, than otherwise, and all that Knowledge which his Partizans boast so much in him, was confined to the Business of the Taxes, a Road in which he was

    A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt

  • If we look into the behaviour of ordinary Partizans, we shall find them far from resembling this disinterested animal; and rather acting after the example of the wild _Tartars_, who are ambitious of destroying

    The Coverley Papers Various

  • Partizans of the same school drink in congratulation; the victors offer the wine cup to the vanquished, at once as a pledge of still enduring good will, at the same time, as a fitting opportunity to meet again on the middle ground of the social board.

    The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion. 1845

  • If the GOP and the Tea Partizans are so concerned about the deficit, let them start the "cutting" from this "foreign aid" instead of cutting from the schools, libraries and fire departments here.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • If the GOP and the Tea Partizans are so concerned about the deficit, let them start the "cutting" from this "foreign aid" instead of cutting from the schools, libraries and fire departments here.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • If the GOP and the Tea Partizans are so concerned about the deficit, let them start the "cutting" from this "foreign aid" instead of cutting from the schools, libraries and fire departments here.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Immel and Chain went to a band of Chajennes which were camped about 5 Miles above 142 the fort, with the same intention but returned shortly afterwards, having met with one Chief and 2 Partizans coming to pay us a Visit, and in form themselves how we traded, cleared up at noon pretty cold, wind North, plenty Ice in the River, this Day crossed our horses to the other Side.

    Luttig's Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition 1812

  • Partizans abandoned him: No one entertained a doubt of his guilt; and they who before had been the warmest in his praise were now the most vociferous in his condemnation.

    The Monk; a romance 1796

  • Upon the whole I was inclined to think that the Domina's designs upon my life had been discovered by some one of my Partizans in the Convent, who had found means to substitute an opiate for poison: That She had furnished me with food to support me, till She could effect my delivery: And that

    The Monk; a romance 1796

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