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  • Indeed some of the foot soldiers who had been quartered in the village to guard the roads had brought the certain tidings that the city had surrendered and that the malignants, as they called the Royalists, were to march out that afternoon, by the same road as that by which the parliamentary army had gone out two years before.

    Under the Storm Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • When time was called the Royalists had the upper hand.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Cromwell MkI 2009

  • When time was called the Royalists had the upper hand.

    Marsden Moor 1644 Cromwell MkI 2009

  • You must know that some of the people supported the royal cause and were called Royalists or Tories.

    The Story of Manhattan Charles Hemstreet

  • Madame Radisson said she was glad of it; for when Pierre was rich they could take a fine house in the West End like my Lord So-and-So; but in the next breath she begged him not to call the Royalists a gilded crew.

    Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade 1903

  • Bourbonist conspirators, a large majority of men were returned who, though described as Royalists, were in fact moderate Constitutionalists, and desired only to undo that part of the Revolution which excluded whole classes of the nation from public life.

    A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

  • The alliance between Boulanger and the Royalists was a profound secret.

    France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

  • His "Royalists," an anti-democratic novel, which he had the courage to publish in the chaos of 1848, and which excited much attention, and a great deal of severe criticism, was far better.

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

  • If we study the portraits that he painted while in Boston, we can get a very complete idea of the surroundings of the "Royalists" at the time of our colonial history.

    Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902

  • Romney smirked his way through that one, eventually mocking Paul and the original Tea Party people on the campaign trail, but of course back then Willard (Mitt's real name) was more concerned about making people believe he was the second coming of Ronald Reagan rather than taking on the Republican "Royalists" that had been pushing through legislation in Washington for the last decade.

    The Latest on Air America 2010

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