royalists

Perhaps 'failing', but even failing might be too strong a word. why we saved these fucking royalists from the Germans?

doggdot.us 2009

Now the royalists were a beaten force somewhere out in space, savagely attacked by their erstwhile allies, driven off the revolting conquered planets, and swept away before the remorselessly advancing Terrestrial fleet.

Agent Of The Terran Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1965

This conspiracy had a more exalted character than the preceding ones, for it included the ultra-royalists, that is to say the nobles, generals, peers, and high functionaries of France.

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

The Directory were popular with no party; but there were many parties; and, numerically, probably the royalists were the strongest.

The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Lockhart, John G 1906

Look at them in the streets of London, or Glasgow, or Dublin, or Berlin, these _émigrés_, as the French called their royalists, whom revolution drove from home, and I think the word

Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom 1903

_ As Dryden calls the royalists "Jews," and calls Charles II.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Lambert, therefore, had at first thought of creating an army each for himself: Monk in Scotland, where were the Presbyterians and the royalists, that is to say, the malcontents; Lambert in London, where was found, as is always the case, the strongest opposition to the existing power which it had beneath its eyes.

The Vicomte De Bragelonne Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

The royalists were the lords of the soil as completely as they were four years earlier, when Hoche obtained less a peace than an armistice.

The Chouans Honor�� de Balzac 1824

But what most pleased the royalists was the expectation that some disaster had happened to Hambden their capital and much dreaded enemy.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell David Hume 1743

The first enterprise of the royalists was the attack of Northampton, which was defended by Simon de Mountfort, with many of the principal barons of that party: and a breach being; made in the walls by Philip Basset, the place was carried by assault, and both the governor and the garrison were made prisoners.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part B. From Henry III. to Richard III. David Hume 1743