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  • noun Plural form of dynamitard.

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Examples

  • A fortnight passed without a single explosion, and it was concluded that the dynamitards, in all probability but a handful of persons, perhaps even still fewer, had all been killed or captured, or that they were in hiding, or had taken flight.

    Penguin Island 1909

  • In popular districts women might be heard demanding unusual punishments for the dynamitards.

    Penguin Island 1909

  • Not that we are dynamitards: indeed the absurdity of the inference shows how innocent we were of any practical acquaintance with explosives; but we thought that the statement about gunpowder and feudalism was historically true, and that it would do the capitalists good to remind them of it.

    The History of the Fabian Society Edward R. Pease 1906

  • There is more danger in one respectable scientist countenancing such a monstrous claim than in fifty assassins or dynamitards.

    The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • A fortnight passed without a single explosion, and it was concluded that the dynamitards, in all probability but a handful of persons, perhaps even Still fewer, had all been killed or captured, or that they were in hiding, or had taken flight.

    Penguin Island Anatole France 1884

  • In popular districts women might be heard demanding unusual punishments for the dynamitards.

    Penguin Island Anatole France 1884

  • These bags are left at large in public buildings, while the dynamitards go away, and as soon as their owners turn the corner the bags explode and blow up the buildings, and anyone who happens to be about. '

    'That Very Mab' Andrew Lang 1878

  • "snappish and short," and seemed to care for nothing but the newspaper; and she was quite scandalized when he actually spent a whole day, as she, by dint of judiciously "pumping" Patrick, contrived to ascertain, in attending the trial of those "horrid wretches of dynamitards," where he heard the case, and heard the sentence of five years 'penal servitude passed upon a gray-haired man with a scar upon his cheek.

    A Bachelor's Dream

  • If it was not for the belief that he is mixed up with dynamitards and other weird creatures, he would be one of the best known artists in Paris. "

    A Son of the Immortals Louis Tracy 1895

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