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A little more liberal than me here, a little more conservative than me there, but basically an honest thinker and not a party-man.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Mickey Kaus’s Ad, in His Primary Campaign for the U.S. Senate Against Barbara Boxer 2010

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The Volokh Conspiracy » Mickey Kaus’s Ad, in His Primary Campaign for the U.S. Senate Against Barbara Boxer 2010

I shall never play whist, said Mr. Perry, without thinking of this, and shall love the game the better for the thought; though I am no party-man.

Pamela 2006

As speaker he continued, however, to be a party-man (he had always been a member of the left-centre or government party) and materially assisted the government by his rulings.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

"I knew Burnet; he was a furious party-man, and easily imposed on by any lying spirit of his own faction; but he was a better pastor than any man who is now seated on the Bishop's bench."

Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 Various

It is not much to be wondered at, that a small politician and narrow party-man, as Lord

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

Let the occiputs thus cut off be interchanged, applying each to the head of his opposite party-man.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

A man was needed who was not known as a party-man.

Moral Ludwig Thoma 1894

I hain't ever cared for office, but I'm a party-man, an 'what the party wants me to do I'll do every time.

Gulmore, The Boss Frank Harris 1893

I hain't ever cared for office, but I'm a party-man, an 'what the party wants me to do I'll do every time.

Elder Conklin and Other Stories Frank Harris 1893