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"Suliote" -- natives of Suli, a mountainous district in Albania (European
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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There were demonstrations on national holidays and once, when the Germans and Bulgarians shot up one such demonstration, she led the young girls in a circle dance around the monument to the unknown soldier, singing the death song of the Suliote women from the 1821 War of Independence.
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Suliote as he boasted himself, Mowbray had, soon after this conversation, some reason to admit that,
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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On the 11th he rode out once more through the olive groves, attended by his escort of Suliote guards, but for the last time.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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A revolt in the Morea, and the repeated disaffection of his Suliote guard prevented him from undertaking the capture of Epacto, an exploit which he had reserved for his own leadership.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Suliote (soo'li-et), sultry (sul'tri), very hot and moist. summons (sum'unz), call by authority to appear at a place named.
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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At Missolonghi, where Mavrocordato reigned supreme, he was grudged the paltry ration of a Suliote soldier, and might have died of starvation, had it not been for the timely interposition of a stranger.
A Love Story A Bushman
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Explain: Suliote; Moslem; Platæa; lines 25-27, page 324.
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By and by the shells fell as thick as Governor Brown's proclamations, causing a more speedy locomotion in the excited throng who hurried by the door, but my friends inside had passed the Rubicon, and one by one retired to dream of Bozarris and, his Suliote band.
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In men whose nature, physical and moral, harks back to the savage ancestor, to the pirate of northern or southern seas, to the Bedouin of the desert, to the Tartar of Bokhara or the Suliote of Albania, the least bit of a quarrel stirs up all the blood at once, and the mere thought of a fight rouses every masculine passion.
Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881
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