All 7 Uses of
partisan
in
War and Peace
- The visitor was Bitski, who served on various committees, frequented all the societies in Petersburg, and a passionate devotee of the new ideas and of Speranski, and a diligent Petersburg newsmonger—one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes according to the fashion, but who for that very reason appear to be the warmest partisans.†
Chpt 6
- The so-called partisan war began with the entry of the French into Smolensk.†
Chpt 14 *
- Before partisan warfare had been officially recognized by the government, thousands of enemy stragglers, marauders, and foragers had been destroyed by the Cossacks and the peasants, who killed them off as instinctively as dogs worry a stray mad dog to death.†
Chpt 14
- On August 24 Davydov's first partisan detachment was formed and then others were recognized.†
Chpt 14
- The partisan warfare flamed up most fiercely in the latter days of October.†
Chpt 14
- Its first period had passed: when the partisans themselves, amazed at their own boldness, feared every minute to be surrounded and captured by the French, and hid in the forests without unsaddling, hardly daring to dismount and always expecting to be pursued.†
Chpt 14
- Tikhon, who at first did rough work, laying campfires, fetching water, flaying dead horses, and so on, soon showed a great liking and aptitude for partisan warfare.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(partisan) someone or an adjective describing someone who strongly supports a person, group, or idea