Oliver Cromwellin a sentence
- Oliver Cromwell believed that Wheelwright was a vicious, even a dirty player, who had perfected the art of tripping his opponents and then falling on them.† (source)
- If you ever say anything good about Oliver Cromwell they'll all hit you.† (source)
- "But wasn't it Oliver Cromwell who had him executed?" she managed, trying to sound regal.† (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)
- "The Cromwellians set fire to the place," Boyle told her.† (source)
- Oliver Cromwell was hated by Catholics and Royalists.
- And the romance— tales of kings and priest hunters, Cromwellians and James Bond.† (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)
- She says I'm the spitting image of my father, I have the odd manner, I have the sneaky air of a northern Presbyterian, I'll probably grow up and build an altar to Oliver Cromwell himself, I'll run off and marry an English tart and cover my house with pictures of the royal family.† (source)
- But Oliver Cromwell wasn't the problem.† (source)
- Oliver Cromwell was the solution.† (source)
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- 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)
- You are Napoleon Bonaparte and I'm your old friend, Oliver Cromwell.† (source)
- In the street in front of it there was a statue of a man on horseback which was supposed to represent Oliver Cromwell.† (source)
- "Oliver Cromwell said it, didn't he? or was it Washington, or one of the saints?† (source)
- "A man," said Oliver Cromwell,[716] "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going."† (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)
- …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…† (source)
- OLIVER CROMWELL thanks you.† (source)
- But surely never was such a scene of horror beheld, or more dismal cries heard, except when Oliver Cromwell took Drogheda in Ireland, where he neither spared man, woman, nor child.† (source)
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