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Oliver Cromwell
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  • In the street in front of it there was a statue of a man on horseback which was supposed to represent Oliver Cromwell.†  (source)
  • "But wasn't it Oliver Cromwell who had him executed?" she managed, trying to sound regal.†  (source)
  • "The Cromwellians set fire to the place," Boyle told her.†  (source)
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  • You are Napoleon Bonaparte and I'm your old friend, Oliver Cromwell.†  (source)
  • And the romance —tales of kings and priest hunters, Cromwellians and James Bond.†  (source)
  • He had been disintegrated into a number of varied fellow-creatures—beings of many minds, beings infinite in difference; some happy, many serene, a few depressed, one here and there bright even to genius, some stupid, others wanton, others austere; some mutely Miltonic, some potentially Cromwellian—into men who had private views of each other, as he had of his friends; who could applaud or condemn each other, amuse or sadden themselves by the contemplation of each other's foibles or vices; men every one of whom walked in his own individual way the road to dusty death.†  (source)
  • "A man," said Oliver Cromwell,[716] "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going."†  (source)
  • I think the Brits kicked out the monks, as they were wont, then, as they were wont, the Cromwellians did the rest and sacked the place.†  (source)
  • Oliver Cromwell said it, didn't he?†  (source)
  • You declined a little in Oliver Cromwell's time, but to no serious extent, and in Charles the Second's reign you were made Knights of the Royal Oak for your loyalty.†  (source)
  • But if the prospect opens, the world will see ....he is as ambitious as Oliver Cromwell......Though his desertion may be a loss to us of some talent, I am not sorry for it on the whole, because his soul is poisoned with ambition.†  (source)
  • OLIVER CROMWELL thanks you.†  (source)
  • Wheelwright was a Cambridge graduate; he'd played football with Oliver Cromwell—whose estimation of Wheelwright (as a football player) was both worshipful and paranoid.†  (source)
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