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The agitator's hair and whiskers bristle with hatred and envy.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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The Labour member who cannot settle down to legislative or administrative work, but attempts to play the agitator's part in the House of Commons or the council chamber, is generally doomed to banishment from official public life, and is allowed to remain an agitator.
The Rise of the Democracy Joseph Clayton
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William H. Seward, a conservative by nature, became an anti-slavery Whig of national influence in 1843; Joshua R. Giddings, of the Western R.serve, and Elijah P. Lovejoy, of Illinois, accepted the agitator's commissions and sought to unite the new idealism with the old
Expansion and Conflict William E. Dodd
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The agitator's conversational style was more colloquial though no less vehement than his platform manner.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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The crowd had listened attentively enough to the old agitator's comment on the news.
The Message 1912
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But in his agitator's work the strongest words came to him most naturally; came like an echo out of the illimitable void that lay behind him.
Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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But in his agitator's work the strongest words came to him most naturally; came like an echo out of the illimitable void that lay behind him.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911
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Few men have been better equipped for the agitator's task.
The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Oscar Douglas Skelton 1909
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Socialists, on the other hand, have not abandoned it, though they must see its absurdity, probably because, though palpably and ridiculously false, the Doctrine of Increasing Misery is considered to be a useful and effective part of the Socialist agitator's stock-in-trade.
British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals J. Ellis Barker 1909
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Only those of the agitator's trusted inner circle had known of the plan to unite these smaller gatherings in one great mass meeting.
Helen of the Old House Harold Bell Wright 1908
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