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partisan as in:  partisan, not balanced

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  • I was hoping for a balanced report, but heard only partisan praise.
    partisan = biased in favor of a view
  • Alabama elects all of its judges in highly competitive partisan elections, one of only six states to do so (thirty-two states have some form of nonpartisan judicial election process).   (source)
    partisan = based on political party support
  • Snape was no less obviously partisan; he had booked the Quidditch pitch for Slytherin practice so often that the Gryffindors had difficulty getting on it to play.   (source)
    partisan = biased in favor of a group
  • There was a link of understanding between them, more important than affection or partisanship.   (source)
    partisanship = shared bias in favor of something
  • There will never be a seven-year period free from partisanship.†   (source)
  • Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.†   (source)
  • My rather meek remonstrance to the effect that wolves had been preying on caribou, without decimating the herds, for some tens of thousands of years before the white men came to Brochet, either fell on deaf ears or roused my listeners to fury at my partisanship.†   (source)
  • More than one man has died needlessly in demonstration of the truth in that saw, both criminals who should not have been drawn on, and policemen who drew and were not ready to shoot or, stymied by their partisanship with the human race, failed to shoot in time.†   (source)
  • But no sooner had the young ex-diplomat been elected as a Federalist to the Massachusetts Legislature when he demonstrated his audacious disdain for narrow partisanship.†   (source)
  • In this final relationship, the Congress and the Administration have, on most vital issues, cooperated well, to serve the national good rather than mere partisanship, and so have assured that the business of the Nation should go forward.†   (source)
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  • In a few years, some of the appellate court judges would be attacked and replaced in partisan judicial elections by candidates who complained about the court's rulings in death penalty cases.   (source)
    partisan = based on political party support
  • Partisan politics was legitimized during the Jacksonian Era of American history.
    partisan = biased in favor of a political party
  • No party partisanship inflamed passions about the changes needed to reform abuses.†   (source)
  • And we should never even desire no partisanship, because an extinction of parties implies either a massive threat of danger or an absolute extinction of liberty.†   (source)
  • He moved among them like a shadow—he was remote from their passionate fullblooded partisanship.†   (source)
  • Our national policy is this: First, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to all-inclusive national defense.†   (source)
  • During the weeks that followed her surprise party, while Rhett was mysteriously absent and the town in a frenzied state of gossip, excitement and partisanship, she gave no quarter to Scarlett's detractors, whether they were her old friends or her blood kin.†   (source)
  • Third, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to the proposition that principles of morality and considerations for our own security will never permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers.†   (source)
  • Secondly, by an impressive expression of the public will and without regard to partisanship, we are committed to full support of all those resolute people everywhere who are resisting aggression and are thereby keeping war away from our hemisphere.†   (source)
  • Nothing wrong when sane women with the vote might rid politics of partisanship, greed, crookedness?†   (source)
  • They had the partisanship of household servants who like their places, and were not inclined to go the full length of the severe indignation felt against him by the farming tenants, but rather to make excuses for him; nevertheless, the upper servants, who had been on terms of neighbourly intercourse with the Poysers for many years, could not help feeling that the longed-for event of the young squire's coming into the estate had been robbed of all its pleasantness.†   (source)
  • And it happened that Mr. Bulstrode and Mr. Featherstone, two of Peacock's most important patients, had, from different causes, given an especially good reception to his successor, who had raised some partisanship as well as discussion.†   (source)
  • But Lydgate had not been long in the town before there were particulars enough reported of him to breed much more specific expectations and to intensify differences into partisanship; some of the particulars being of that impressive order of which the significance is entirely hidden, like a statistical amount without a standard of comparison, but with a note of exclamation at the end.†   (source)
  • The nonpartisan fellowship also gave me the chance to learn from the other fellows, an impressively diverse and talented group from all over the country.   (source)
    nonpartisan = not based upon strong support for any person or idea
  • Alabama elects all of its judges in highly competitive partisan elections, one of only six states to do so (thirty-two states have some form of nonpartisan judicial election process).   (source)
    nonpartisan = non-biased (not based upon political party)
  • v%/ar> 41 respect his nonpartisan, nonsectional approach.†   (source)
  • If the Post was as obstinate and relentless as a rat terrier crazed by the scent of rodents—which it was—it was redeemed, for Joe, by the nonpartisan nature of its fury.†   (source)
  • Santos had reached a terrified ambassador in London with a question so loaded it made a political party's private poll look like the essence of nonpartisan neutrality.†   (source)
  • For a fleeting interlude the prospect of truly nonpartisan cooperation between them appeared attainable.†   (source)
  • Adams later noted that this act of nonpartisan independence "marked the principle by which my whole public life has been governed from that day to this†   (source)
  • But unmoved by the storm of opposition which poured forth from Mississippi, Lamar braced himself in preparation for the most crucial test of his role as anonsectional, nonpartisan statesman which lay ahead in the Senate.†   (source)
  • It would practically have revolutionized our splendid political fabric into a partisan Congressional autocracy...This government had never faced so insidious a danger ....control by the worst element of American politics...If Andrew Johnson were acquitted by a nonpartisan vote ....America would pass the danger point of partisan rule and that intolerance which so often characterizes the sway of great majorities and makes them dangerous.†   (source)
  • With rumors of violence and military dictatorship rife, Congress determined upon arbitration by a supposedly nonpartisan Electoral Commission—and Lucius Lamar, confident that an objective inquiry would demonstrate the palpable fraud of the Republican case, agreed to this solution to prevent a recurrence of the tragic conflict which had so aged his spirit and broadened his outlook.†   (source)
  • In the early autumn, news came from Wakamin that the sheriff had forbidden an organizer for the National Nonpartisan League to speak anywhere in the county.†   (source)
  • The Dauntless lies to us about the Nonpartisan League, the lawyers sting us, the machinery-dealers hate to carry us over bad years, and then their daughters put on swell dresses and look at us as if we were a bunch of hoboes.†   (source)
  • It proved that the only problems which America had to face were Mormonism and Prohibition: "Don't let any of these self-conceited fellows that are always trying to stir up trouble deceive you with the belief that there's anything to all these smart-aleck movements to let the unions and the Farmers' Nonpartisan League kill all our initiative and enterprise by fixing wages and prices.†   (source)
  • Way I figger it, you folks are just patriotic enough so that you ain't going to stand for any guy sneering and knocking his own town, no matter how much of a smart Aleck he is—and just on the side I want to add that this Farmers' Nonpartisan League and the whole bunch of socialists are right in the same category, or, as the fellow says, in the same scategory, meaning This Way Out, Exit, Beat It While the Going's Good, This Means You, for all knockers of prosperity and the rights of property!†   (source)
  • /To go for/, both in the sense of belligerency and in that of partisanship, is also American, and so is /to go through/ (/i.†   (source)
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partisan as in:  a partisan of the political party

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  • The partisans of the two opposing candidates were engaged in a heated debate.
    partisans = people who strongly support someone
  • This particular year, with the development of the war and Hitler's current victorious position, the Nazi partisans of Molching wanted the celebration to be especially befitting.   (source)
    partisans = supporters
  • This squabble grew to the proportions of a battle in the woods between partisans of both sides, and it is said to have lasted for two days.   (source)
  • Yitzchak, who had indeed escaped, had lived in the forest with the partisans, fighting the Germans.   (source)
    partisans = members of an armed resistance group
  • The partisans usually posted a sentry to take the tree messages, and slept during the afternoon, partly because so much of their hunting had to be done in the times when most workmen sleep, and partly because the wild beasts take a nap in the afternoon and so should their hunters.   (source)
  • If, heretofore, I had been none of the warmest of partisans I began now, at this season of peril and adversity, to be pretty acutely sensible with which party my predilections lay; nor was it without something like regret and shame that, according to a reasonable calculation of chances, I saw my own prospect of retaining office to be better than those of my democratic brethren.   (source)
    partisans = people who strongly support someone or something
  • He need not have been a partisan of any faction in the town, but there is evidence to suggest that he had a sharp and biting way with hypocrites.   (source)
    partisan = supporter
  • He was the kind of man—powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led—who cannot refuse support to partisans without drawing their deepest resentment.   (source)
    partisans = people who strongly support someone or something
  • Exeunt Tybalt with his Partizans.   (source)
    partizans = supporters
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partisan as in:  a partisan of the armed resistance

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  • Supporters of partisans were executed by the occupying army.
    partisans = members of an armed resistance group
  • The partizans did their damage and pulled out.   (source)
    partizans = members of an armed resistance
  • Robin Wood was a Saxon partizan.   (source)
    partizan = member of an armed resistance group
  • You know the one, Jordan, who is with the partizan group.   (source)
    partizan = of members of an armed resistance
  • That was before the first "partizan" groups had been formed;   (source)
    partizan = strongly supporting an idea
  • While, if you did invite him to the meet, what would the King's huntsman and the neighbours say at havin' a partisan for a fellow guest?   (source)
    partisan = ember of an armed resistance group
  • A few of the Gaelic ones revolted, who were quelled later, but in the main the people of England and the partizans like Robin were glad to settle down.   (source)
    partizans = members of an armed resistance group
  • In all the work that they, the partizans, did, they brought added danger and bad luck to the people that sheltered them and worked with them.   (source)
    partizans = members of an armed resistance
  • How do you like partizan work?   (source)
    partizan = a member of an armed resistance
  • Tell me, Comrade Marty, have you heard anything of any message coming through for Golz from one of our partizan groups operating toward Segovia?   (source)
    partizan = of members of an armed resistance
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  • "Yes," Karkov looked at him contemptuously, "a young American of slight political development but a great way with the Spaniards and a fine partizan record."   (source)
    partizan = relating to being a member of an armed resistance
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partisan as in:  killed with a partisan

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  • The partisan was a formidable weapon in the hands of a skilled warrior.
  • To wield old partisans, in hands as old,   (source)
    partisans = weapons that resemble an elaborate spear
  • Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!   (source)
  • Why, this it is to have a name in great men's fellowship: I had as lief have a reed that will do me no service as a partizan I could not heave.   (source)
    partizan = a weapon that resembles an elaborate spear
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  • Becoming partisan fighters for the Russians might have kept them safe.†   (source)
  • Is that a partisan there, that old man with the saw cutting trees?†   (source)
  • Although technically any cardinal under eighty years old could become Pope, only a very few had the respect necessary to command a two-thirds majority in the ferociously partisan balloting procedure.†   (source)
  • FIVE WEEKS LATER JEWISH PARTISAN CAMP LODA FOREST†   (source)
  • She actually preferred to be among the poor, the working-class poor of the Red Hook Housing Projects in Brooklyn, the cement mixers, bakers, doughnut makers, grandmothers, and soul-food church partisans who were her lifelong friends.†   (source)
  • There is still a widespread feeling against Grace Marks; and this is a most partisan country.†   (source)
  • The armed fighting in the Warsaw ghetto and thousands of brave deeds performed by Jewish partisans show that it was a very capable resistance too.†   (source)
  • It took him almost a year of fierce and bloody effort to force the government to propose conditions of peace favorable to the rebels and another year to convince his own partisans of the convenience of accepting them.†   (source)
  • He was a Maquis, a partisan.†   (source)
  • They did not know if the people of Quang Ngai viewed the war stoically, as it sometimes seemed, or with grief, as it seemed other times, or with bewilderment or greed or partisan fury.†   (source)
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  • They worry lest we join the partisans ...†   (source)
  • In Natal, Zulu was murdering Zulu, for Inkatha members and ANC partisans are Zulus.†   (source)
  • The veteran politicians and ward bosses of the deeply partisan city don't give him a chance of winning.†   (source)
  • But the Red Sox had plenty of partisans too; a significant percentage of the white women were from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and the always-suspect border state of Connecticut.†   (source)
  • The Evening Post, the most partisan in its denunciations, called the war "unnatural, unconstitutional, unnecessary, unjust, dangerous, hazardous, and unprofitable."†   (source)
  • I can assure you, my outraged young friend' — the old man's knowing, disdainful eyes shone even more effervescently as Nately's stuttering dismay increased — 'that you and your country will have a no more loyal partisan in Italy than me — but only as long as you remain in Italy.'†   (source)
  • The issue is a community issue, it's non-partisan.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus said no. Then one student, apparently a partisan of the governor, said angrily that the legislature would prevent the school from losing its accreditation.†   (source)
  • "We have discarded all our petty differences," Wesley Mouch was now saying into the microphone, "all partisan opinions, all personal interests and selfish views-in order to serve under the selfless leadership of John Galt!"†   (source)
  • This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.†   (source)
  • Well, in that same spirit, I say to President-elect Bush that what remains of partisan rancor must now be put aside, and may God bless his stewardship of this country.†   (source)
  • However, the Athenians decided they would lose more partisans than Sparta, giving the latter a majority.†   (source)
  • In 1966 most of the graffiti were partisan editorials about the war in Vietnam.†   (source)
  • This sentiment brewed up from a mixture of racism, conservatism, and partisan politics.†   (source)
  • It was little wonder, then, that an attack on the nation's capital was yet another occasion for partisan bickering.†   (source)
  • If you ever meet the Red partisans under General Korczynski, you risk being shot on sight.'†   (source)
  • If you came here to dispose of a partisan, don't even bother trying.†   (source)
  • The worried partisan leader was reassured.†   (source)
  • No partisan, personal or sectional considerations could outweigh his devotion to the national interest and to the truth.†   (source)
  • Max went off to join the partisans and was killed fighting the Germans.†   (source)
  • The partisans spoke with cautious hope about the end of the war, about returning home.†   (source)
  • "Partisans are hitting the trains," he explains.†   (source)
  • Different partisan groups were targeting trains all over the east.†   (source)
  • Armed partisans sidling up right now behind the truck?†   (source)
  • Dr. Zelman, the partisan doctor, kept telling Max how lucky he'd been.†   (source)
  • Whenever he can, Werner records what the partisans say on magnetic tape.†   (source)
  • Because really, Werner thinks, they are all insurgents, all partisans, every single person they see.†   (source)
  • She explained that she was a partisan, a special kind of fighter.†   (source)
  • Mr. Jablonski wasn't Jewish or a partisan — he was a spy.†   (source)
  • His favorite times were sitting around the fire with the partisans, listening to them talk.†   (source)
  • He'd remember the bravery of the partisans, and how he and Zena never left each other's side.†   (source)
  • Pennsylvania was at a crisis, fueled by partisan rage.†   (source)
  • A partisan spirit infects all political bodies.†   (source)
  • The partisan force was constantly on the move, and Yurii Andreievich moved with it.†   (source)
  • He imagined that he had seen them all at the partisan camp.†   (source)
  • The partisan army was born of the union of the two.†   (source)
  • It proved to be an equally dull collection of minutes of partisan meetings.†   (source)
  • During this period, the partisans were constantly moving eastward.†   (source)
  • Each of his three attempts at escaping from the partisans had ended in capture.†   (source)
  • The bullets of the partisans mowed them down.†   (source)
  • Then everything he said about the partisans and the shooting was true.†   (source)
  • It wouldn't be partisans shooting at us, would it, little grandfather?†   (source)
  • The partisans moved parallel to the highway and occasionally they made use of it.†   (source)
  • But it was too late for the partisans to move and they had nowhere to go to.†   (source)
  • Now their dugouts and communication trenches were used by the partisans.†   (source)
  • The partisans had now moved to a new campground.†   (source)
  • It was more than a year since Yurii Andreievich had been taken prisoner by the partisans.†   (source)
  • He said he'd join the partisans—'to avenge the ills of society,' he said.†   (source)
  • The taiga, the camp, his eighteen months among the partisans, went right out of his head.†   (source)
  • Now it's the operational base of the partisans.†   (source)
  • There was a shortage of winter clothing; many of the partisans went about half dressed.†   (source)
  • The partisans were getting ready to welcome them and soon afterwards to move on.†   (source)
  • The last time the partisans had moved camp the wounded were carried thirty miles on stretchers.†   (source)
  • Svirid wished he could leave the partisans and go back to his old, private, independent life.†   (source)
  • In a Siberian forest with the partisans, who were encircled and whose fate he was to share.†   (source)
  • It was learned that the partisans' families were now within two days' journey of the camp.†   (source)
  • Not all of these were related to the partisans.†   (source)
  • —Leonard Cohen, "The Partisan"†   (source)
  • Despite the reforming tendencies of the country's present government, the town abounds both in disgruntled Tories, and also in petty provincial snobberies; and I anticipate that your bearish and carelessly dressed, and what is more to the purpose, your Yankee democrat friend, will be viewed with some suspicion by its more partisan inhabitants.†   (source)
  • These partisans may have been involved in some dark forest magic, but they should not have been tinkering with the higher magic of radio.†   (source)
  • Maybe it comes from the stew in some nameless Ukrainian kitchen; maybe partisans have poisoned the water; maybe Werner simply sits too long in too many damp places with the headset over his ears.†   (source)
  • And within minutes, Max was in the hands of Dr. Zelman, an older partisan who had been a famous surgeon before he became a fighter.†   (source)
  • Aunt Hannah said there were hundreds of partisan groups hiding in the forests around Poland and other countries in the east.†   (source)
  • Lately the Nazis were desperate to capture partisans, Aunt Hannah explained, to track them to their secret camps.†   (source)
  • Not all partisans were Jewish, but everyone in Aunt Hannah's group was, including Martin and Lev, the two men here with her.†   (source)
  • But secretly he was working with the partisans helping plot their missions, hiding them in his barn, supplying them with food and news from the outside.†   (source)
  • He professes a heartfelt belief in the southern cause, while she is the daughter of a ferociously partisan northern senator.†   (source)
  • He defined himself as a natural pacifist, a partisan of definitive reconciliation between Liberals and Conservatives for the good of the nation.†   (source)
  • He was weary of the demands of office, weary and disheartened, Washington said, by party rancor and a severely partisan press that had taken to calling him the American Caesar.†   (source)
  • Almost a century and a half ago, Senator Stephen Douglas told Abraham Lincoln, who had just defeated him for the presidency, "Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism.†   (source)
  • Then we heard the partisan outcry as the VMI players appeared on the opposite side of the field house.†   (source)
  • "Meanwhile, Second Battalion made its way through the center, unburdened," Strassnitzky said, and then he paused, "except by a landslide that was loosed upon it by partisans high above."†   (source)
  • I dare say the French spies have been writing many, many a melancholy letter on the subject to their partisans who are laying off the coast.†   (source)
  • When he lectured on the history of England, he was the most brilliant and passionate scholar I had ever heard, outrageously partisan, an immodest dispenser of inflamed rhetoric.†   (source)
  • But he succeeded with flying colors, delivering an address that left little doubt as to where he stood on the Constitution, partisan politics, domestic concerns, France, and the pressing issue of peace or war.†   (source)
  • To Adams's particular delight, one of the most partisan of all the young Republicans, Representative William Branch Giles of Virginia, had been heard to say of him, "The old man will make a good President, too.†   (source)
  • The pull of Charleston was lunar and feminine and partisan and even affected those natives, like Commerce, who professed to loathe her extensive artifice and the carnivorous etiquette of its social structure.†   (source)
  • Members of Congress have often acted like State partisans rather than impartial guardians of a common interest.†   (source)
  • Many of the harshest attacks on Hamilton's economic policies—and some of the more biting comments on Washington himself—came from the National Gazette, a newspaper newly established in Philadelphia as an antidote to the partisan Federalist views of the Gazette of the United States, to which Alexander Hamilton was a regular contributor of essays and money.†   (source)
  • An American nationalist who had lived a great part of his brief life abroad, he could not yield his devotion to the national interest for the narrowly partisan, parochial and pro-British outlook which dominated New England's first political party.†   (source)
  • The partisans.†   (source)
  • Also, earlier today I was trying to deal with another partisan group, trying to see whether we might be confident of help.'†   (source)
  • The local prejudices which Hamilton had hoped to exclude only intensified, particularly as the Federalists of New England and the Jeffersonians of Virginia split along sectional as well as partisan lines.†   (source)
  • And there is this: although the Home Army, like members of the Resistance elsewhere in Europe, had other concerns besides the succor and safekeeping of the Jews (as indeed there were one or two partisan factions in Poland that remained malignantly anti-Semitic), such help, generally speaking, was still high on their list of priorities; thus it is safe to say that it was at least partly because of their efforts in behalf of some of these incessantly stalked, mortally endangered Jews that dozens upon dozens of members of the underground were rapidly corralled, and that Sophie too—Sophie the stainless, the inaccessible, the uninvolved—was adventitiously ensnared.†   (source)
  • I had been lured to this place, on my arrival in New York, not alone by its name—which conjured up an image of Ivy League camaraderie, baize-covered lounge tables littered with copies of the New Republic and Partisan Review, and elderly retainers in frock coats fretting over messages and catering to one's needs—but by its modest rates: ten dollars a week.†   (source)
  • Although a militant pacifist and isolationist, his very nature prohibited him from being a mere obstructionist on all international issues, or a petty partisan opposing all of the President's requests.†   (source)
  • At any rate, when Leslie and I made our way back to the beach the late-afternoon light, still quivering with heat waves, flooded the sand around the lifeguard tower from which the dejected group of analysands had now departed, leaving behind them a half-buried copy of Partisan Review, squeezed-out tubes of nose balm and a litter of Coke bottles.†   (source)
  • And thus in 1928 Norris finally declared that progressives had no place to land except in the Smith camp...Shall we be so partisan that we will place our party above our country and refuse to follow the only leader who affords us any escape from the control of the [power] trust?†   (source)
  • His motives appear clearly from his own writings on the subject years later in articles contributed to Scribner's and Forum magazines: In a large sense, the independence of the executive office as a coordinate branch of the government was on trial...If ....the President must step down....a disgraced man and a political outcast ....upon insufficient proofs and from partisan considerations, the office of President would be degraded, cease to be a coordinate branch of the government, and ever after subordinated to the legislative will.†   (source)
  • I am originally from Cracow, where my family were passionate German partisans, for many years in the vanguard of those countless lovers of the Third Reich who admire National Socialism and the principles of the Fuhrer.†   (source)
  • She had then been thrown in haphazardly among these partisans, where she was victim less of any specific retributive justice than of a general rage—a kind of berserk lust for complete domination and oppression which seized the Nazis whenever they scored a win over the Resistance, and which this time had even extended to the several hundred bedraggled Poles ensnared in that last savage roundup.†   (source)
  • It would practically have revolutionized our splendid political fabric into a partisan Congressional autocracy...This government had never faced so insidious a danger ....control by the worst element of American politics...If Andrew Johnson were acquitted by a nonpartisan vote ....America would pass the danger point of partisan rule and that intolerance which so often characterizes the sway of great majorities and makes them dangerous.†   (source)
  • One of the few members of Congress who still brought his slaves with him to his Washington household, he nevertheless was equally opposed to the Abolitionists and the secessionists, to the permanent extension of this evil into new territory by the South and to the partisan exploitation of its miseries by Northern agitators.†   (source)
  • Some are vulgar demagogues ....some are men of wealth who have purchased their position ....[some are] men of narrow intellect, limited comprehension, and low partisan prejudice...And still earlier a member of the Senate itself told his colleagues that "the confidence of the people is departing from us, owing to our unreasonable delays."†   (source)
  • he must learn to control; of the ever-recurring contest between a natural desire for public approbation and a sense of public duty; of the load of injustice he must be content to bear, even from those who should be his friends; the imputations of his motives; the sneers and sarcasms of ignorance and malice; all the manifold injuries which partisan or private malignity, disappointed of its objects, may shower upon his unprotected head.†   (source)
  • All this was counter to the intentions of the partisan command, working havoc with the plan made by Liberius.†   (source)
  • What surprised Yurii Andreievich was the presence of Sivobluy, a partisan of the crack "Silver Company" who was one of the commander's bodyguards.†   (source)
  • The convoy with the partisans' families, complete with children and belongings, had long been following the main partisan force.†   (source)
  • By such qualities Pamphil had established his fame, and he was held in great esteem by partisan chiefs and Party leaders.†   (source)
  • The enemy had closed the breach in his positions and the partisan unit that had broken through was now unable to get back into the taiga.†   (source)
  • The requisitioned supplies were found to contain a whole jar of cocaine, to which the partisan chief had recently become addicted.†   (source)
  • He was favored by the partisan chief, Liberius Mikulitsyn, who liked his company and made him sleep in his tent.†   (source)
  • The partisan commander was Mikulitsyn's son, Liberius, The speaker was a former member of the co-operative labor movement, Kostoied-Amursky, who had once been a Social Revolutionary.†   (source)
  • When he came to the partisan leader, Liberius, and learned that his fame had not yet reached Moscow and that the Forest Brotherhood was unknown there, he could hardly believe it.†   (source)
  • In the existing state of the partisan force, with its high turnover of deserters to and from the enemy, it was possible, if the strictest secrecy were kept, to pass Rantsevich off as a recently enlisted ally.†   (source)
  • Lidochka, the representative of the Central Committee, did not hear the partisan leader asking him to stop and continued his tired patter: "By its policy of looting, requisitioning, violence, shooting, and torture the bourgeois militarist regime in Sibera is bound to open the eyes of the gullible.†   (source)
  • In an open space outside his tent Kamennodvorsky, the chief liaison officer, was burning papers, discarded rubbish from General Kappel's records that had fallen into his hands, as well as papers from his own partisan flies.†   (source)
  • The partisan leader, or, to be more exact, the commander of the Kezhemsk group of the trans-Ural partisan units, sat in a provocatively nonchalant attitude under the speaker's very nose; he kept interrupting him rudely and disrespectfully.†   (source)
  • When calm was restored, Kostoied went on: "In order to keep up with the growing movement of the peasant masses, it is essential to establish contact at once with all the partisan units operating in the territory of the Party Provincial Committee."†   (source)
  • Well, I came across this boy, a tramp, who said he had got away from a partisan shooting squad-they had lined him up with a lot of other condemned men, but he was only wounded, and he crawled out from under a pile of dead bodies and hid in the forest and recovered, and now he was moving from one hide-out to another, like me.†   (source)
  • It is essential to work out to the last detail all questions concerning the organization of partisan detachments, their commanders, proletarian discipline, conspiratorial work, contact with the outside world, behavior toward the local population, revolutionary courts-martial, and sabotage in enemy territory-for example, the destruction of bridges, railway lines, steamships, barges, stations, workshops with all their technical equipment, telegraph offices, mines, and food supplies.†   (source)
  • But everyday, current reality was still there, Russia was going through the October revolution, and he was a prisoner of the partisans.†   (source)
  • The position would have been catastrophic for the partisans had the radius of the encirclement been smaller.†   (source)
  • The convoy with the partisans' families, complete with children and belongings, had long been following the main partisan force.†   (source)
  • The partisans had a limited supply of cartridges and were under orders to fire only at short range and at clearly visible targets.†   (source)
  • He was even thinner, more neglected, and more unkempt than when he went to Yuriatin after escaping from the partisans.†   (source)
  • After several days' hard fighting, the partisans defeated the Whites and broke through to their rear.†   (source)
  • As you know, there's a convoy coming, with wives, children, and old people, and many of the partisans have refused to leave the camp until it comes.†   (source)
  • Twenty of the most loyal partisans, including a core of the commander's bodyguard, brought the condemned men to the spot.†   (source)
  • There had been a doorbell once, but it had broken and stopped ringing even before the doctor had been captured by the partisans.†   (source)
  • Your father was a Siberian millionaire who committed suicide, your wife is the daughter of a local landowner and industrialist, you were with the partisans and you ran away.†   (source)
  • As we have said, the enemy had no means of tightening his grip, so the partisans had no reason to worry on this account; on the other hand, it was impossible for them to remain inactive.†   (source)
  • It seemed that he would emerge like a wood demon
    From the camp of the escaping convicts
    To meet the outposts of the partisans,
    Whether on foot or horse.†   (source)
  • The workshop made nothing but army clothes, padded trousers and jackets and parti-colored fur coats, made of the skins of dogs of different breeds, such as Yurii Andreievich had seen on the partisans.†   (source)
  • The convoy with the partisans' families is quite near and the dissensions inside the camp will be settled by this evening, so we can expect to move any day now.†   (source)
  • In the autumn the partisans took up quarters in Fox's Thicket, a small wood on a steep hill with a swift stream foaming around three sides of it and biting into the shores.†   (source)
  • One day, in one such small town, the doctor was ordered to take over a stock of British medical supplies abandoned by the White officers' unit under General Kappel and now seized by the partisans.†   (source)
  • His own sentence of death had been allegedly commuted; instead of hanging him, they had cut off his arm and leg in order to send him into the camp and strike terror among the partisans.†   (source)
  • It also said that the same treatment would be meted out to all the partisans unless, by a given date, they submitted and gave up their arms to the representatives of General Vitsyn's army corps.†   (source)
  • At times this movement was part of the general campaign to drive Kolchak from western Siberia; at other times, when the Whites struck from the rear, threatening to encircle the partisans, the same eastward marches turned into retreats.†   (source)
  • They were those of the scum of the partisans, hangers-on such as Goshka, Sanka, Koska, and their usual follower Terentii Galuzin, young good-for-nothings who were at the bottom of every kind of outrage and disorder.†   (source)
  • In spite of setbacks and frequent retreats, the ranks of the partisans were continually swollen by new insurgents from the settlements through which the peasant hordes passed and by deserters from the enemy.†   (source)
  • I'll show you the place where I was stopped by the partisans," the doctor told them when they were at some distance from the town, but he was unable to keep his promise because the winter bareness of the woods, the dead quiet, and the emptiness all around changed the country beyond recognition.†   (source)
  • Terrified by the punitive measures of the Whites, all the peasants of the surrounding countryside had fled from their homes and now sought to join the partisans, whom they regarded as their natural protectors.†   (source)
  • While he was running with his arms raised above his head he could be shot down from both sides, struck in the breast and in the back-by the partisans in punishment for his betrayal and by the Whites in misunderstanding of his motives.†   (source)
  • And what are the partisans?†   (source)
  • In the eighteen months the doctor had spent with the partisans, their army had increased tenfold, actually reaching the number of which Liberius Averkievich had boasted at the underground meeting at Krestovozdvizhensk.†   (source)
  • Partisans!†   (source)
  • I joined the partisans.†   (source)
  • The partisans were few.†   (source)
  • Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part.†   (source)
  • She always returned to this—she was fanatically partisan, her hysterical superstition had already lined the family in embattled groups of those who were Gant and those who were Pentland.†   (source)
  • In his last article on the Soviet cinema in the Partisan Review, Dwight Macdonald points out that kitsch has in the last ten years become the dominant culture in Soviet Russia.†   (source)
  • The other arm he had lost two years ago while a member of a troop of partisan guerilla horse in the Kansas fighting, and his head and beard were grizzled now.†   (source)
  • He saw the man in spectacles sitting at the plank table and he did not need to be told this was a Justice of the Peace; he sent one glare of fierce, exultant, partisan defiance at the man in collar and cravat now, whom he had seen but twice before in his life, and that on a galloping horse, who now wore on his face an expression not of rage but of amazed unbelief which the boy could not have known was at the incredible circumstance of being sued by one of his own tenants, and came and stood against his father and cried at the justice: "He ain't done it!†   (source)
  • I looked around and could see my friends and enemies in a minute, jeering or urging, distrustful, partisan, indignant, crying.†   (source)
  • In the Spring and Summer he went as often as he could afford it, or was invited, to the baseball games in the district league, a fanatic partisan of the town club and its best players, making a fantasy constantly of himself in a heroic game-saving rôle.†   (source)
  • The Enemy's human partisans have all been plainly told by Him that suffering is an essential part of what He calls Redemption; so that a faith which is destroyed by a war or a pestilence cannot really have been worth the trouble of destroying.†   (source)
  • The very fact that he could and did see no paradox in the fact that he took an active part in a partisan war and on the very side whose principles opposed his own, was proof enough that he was two separate and complete people, one of whom dwelled by serene rules in a world where reality did not exist.†   (source)
  • Instead of the Creator adored by its creature, you soon have merely a leader acclaimed by a partisan, and finally a distinguished character approved by a judicious historian.†   (source)
  • The two parties in Patusan were not sure which one this partisan most desired to plunder.†   (source)
  • Stay, yonder she is, where you see a group of partisans.†   (source)
  • The so-called partisan war began with the entry of the French into Smolensk.†   (source)
  • In this matter, I act as a partisan of the lady concerned.†   (source)
  • The prophecies of the French partisans began to pass for facts.†   (source)
  • The partisan warfare flamed up most fiercely in the latter days of October.†   (source)
  • But the mien of Mahtoree was far less stern and warlike than that of the partisan of the Loups.†   (source)
  • On August 24 Davydov's first partisan detachment was formed and then others were recognized.†   (source)
  • To this spot the partisan now turned his wistful gaze, nor was he long in making his decision.†   (source)
  • Christine Daae looked charming in her boy's clothes; and Carlotta's partisans expected to hear her greeted with an ovation which would have enlightened them as to the intentions of her friends.†   (source)
  • The display on both sides, the quickness of the one and the steadiness of the other, had excited the partisan spirit of the crowd, and the men were making new bets and increasing original bets.†   (source)
  • The worst menace to sound government is not the avowed socialists but a lot of cowards who work under cover—the long-haired gentry who call themselves "liberals" and "radicals" and "non-partisan" and "intelligentsia" and God only knows how many other trick names!†   (source)
  • Ah, but his adversary was not tongue-tied, either; he knew how to disrupt this angelic hallelujah with nasty, brilliant protests, declaring himself a partisan of life and its conservation and an opponent of the spirit of sedition lurking beneath such seraphic dissemblance.†   (source)
  • My hour of favor was over; I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a partisan of methods for which the time was not ripe: I was unsound!†   (source)
  • Doramin had agreed to furnish him the guns; and so each man of his party would know there was a place of safety, upon which every faithful partisan could rally in case of some sudden danger.†   (source)
  • One would have thought he must have understood that society was closed for him and Anna; but now some vague ideas had sprung up in his brain that this was only the case in old-fashioned days, and that now with the rapidity of modern progress (he had unconsciously become by now a partisan of every sort of progress) the views of society had changed, and that the question whether they would be received in society was not a foregone conclusion.†   (source)
  • What a testimony, full of grandeur, full of pity, is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman, the poor partisan, who rejoices in the glory of his chief!†   (source)
  • DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER.†   (source)
  • "Not that I am aware of," replied the young man, "unless, indeed, any ill-feeling might have arisen from their being of opposite parties—your father was, as you know, a zealous partisan of the Bourbons, while mine was wholly devoted to the emperor; there could not possibly be any other difference between them.†   (source)
  • "Touchez-la," said the cold-blooded partisan, holding out his sinewy hand to Pathfinder, when he ended his explanations; "you be honnete, and dat is beaucoup.†   (source)
  • You do not avoid going to war by that means; you see, the cardinal is about to make the next campaign, helm on head and partisan in hand.†   (source)
  • The stranger cast a glance, which seemed to read the guileless soul of the old man, as he demanded— "Has the Pale-face seen the partisan of my people?"†   (source)
  • The friar was now completely accoutred as a yeoman, with sword and buckler, bow, and quiver, and a strong partisan over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • Chapter Eleven He had recently read a eulogy on a new method for curing club-foot, and as he was a partisan of progress, he conceived the patriotic idea that Yonville, in order to keep to the fore, ought to have some operations for strephopody or club-foot.†   (source)
  • She ought to have been a partisan of her father, for she was the member of his trio who most "made up" to him for the disagreeables he didn't mention.†   (source)
  • The gloomy corner into which accident as much as indiscretion had brought this woman might have led even a moderate partisan to feel that she had cogent reasons for asking the Supreme Power by what right a being of such exquisite finish had been placed in circumstances calculated to make of her charms a curse rather than a blessing.†   (source)
  • In the heat of the struggle each partisan is hurried beyond the limits of his opinions by the opinions and the excesses of his opponents, until he loses sight of the end of his exertions, and holds a language which disguises his real sentiments or secret instincts.†   (source)
  • Such is the charm of these democratic manners, that even the partisans of aristocracy are caught by it; and after having experienced it for some time, they are by no means tempted to revert to the respectful and frigid observance of aristocratic families.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • A deep guttural exclamation of assent broke from the lips of all the partisans of Mahtoree, as they listened to this sanguinary advice from one, who was certainly among the most aged men of the nation.†   (source)
  • Two noble gentlemen, who had a weakness for strong drink, had been made drunk by the partisans of Snetkov, and a third had been robbed of his uniform.†   (source)
  • with its small amount of idolatry; it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented with alabaster, with snow, with the swan and the lily in the name of whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against.†   (source)
  • Here's the proclamation of his Majesty the Emperor and King," said the now declared partisan of Napoleon, and taking the document from his pocket, Isidor sternly thrust it into his master's face, and already looked upon the frogged coat and valuables as his own spoil.†   (source)
  • Napoleon, in the Island of Elba, is too near France, and his proximity keeps up the hopes of his partisans.†   (source)
  • A republic is not, according to them, the rule of the majority, as has hitherto been thought, but the rule of those who are strenuous partisans of the majority.†   (source)
  • Spanish policy and Austrian policy would have their representatives in the cabinet of the Louvre, where they had as yet but partisans; and he, Richelieu—the French minister, the national minister—would be ruined.†   (source)
  • The remaining and lower part of the hall was filled with guards, holding partisans, and with other attendants whom curiosity had drawn thither, to see at once a Grand Master and a Jewish sorceress.†   (source)
  • Quasimodo then beheld distinctly surging in the Parvis a frightful herd of men and women in rags, armed with scythes, pikes, billhooks and partisans, whose thousand points glittered.†   (source)
  • Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.†   (source)
  • Thus refreshed and sobered, the jolly priest twirled his heavy partisan round his head with three fingers, as if he had been balancing a reed, exclaiming at the same time, "Where be those false ravishers, who carry off wenches against their will?†   (source)
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