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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship.†   (source)
  • This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.†   (source)
  • However, the Athenians decided they would lose more partisans than Sparta, giving the latter a majority.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Now it's the operational base of the partisans.†   (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)
  • Partisan politics was legitimized during the Jacksonian Era of American history.
  • I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.   (source)
  • He claims to be a partisan of neither party, but only of truth.
  • It may be a cliché, and it may be a partisan attack term, but it is also true: There is a culture of corruption across Capitol Hill.   (source)
  • ...judges who become too caught up in the essentially political role of making new policies are apt to lose their neutrality and become partisans...   (source)
  • Whenever he can, Werner records what the partisans say on magnetic tape.†   (source)
  • He'd remember the bravery of the partisans, and how he and Zena never left each other's side.†   (source)
  • Armed partisans sidling up right now behind the truck?†   (source)
  • His favorite times were sitting around the fire with the partisans, listening to them talk.†   (source)
  • Because really, Werner thinks, they are all insurgents, all partisans, every single person they see.†   (source)
  • The partisans spoke with cautious hope about the end of the war, about returning home.†   (source)
  • No party partisanship inflamed passions about the changes needed to reform abuses.†   (source)
  • There will never be a seven-year period free from partisanship.†   (source)
  • If you ever meet the Red partisans under General Korczynski, you risk being shot on sight.'†   (source)
  • The last time the partisans had moved camp the wounded were carried thirty miles on stretchers.†   (source)
  • He said he'd join the partisans-'to avenge the ills of society,' he said.†   (source)
  • It was learned that the partisans' families were now within two days' journey of the camp.†   (source)
  • But it was too late for the partisans to move and they had nowhere to go to.†   (source)
  • The partisans were getting ready to welcome them and soon afterwards to move on.†   (source)
  • During this period, the partisans were constantly moving eastward.†   (source)
  • There was a shortage of winter clothing; many of the partisans went about half dressed.†   (source)
  • Each of his three attempts at escaping from the partisans had ended in capture.†   (source)
  • In a Siberian forest with the partisans, who were encircled and whose fate he was to share.†   (source)
  • Now their dugouts and communication trenches were used by the partisans.†   (source)
  • Not all of these were related to the partisans.†   (source)
  • The taiga, the camp, his eighteen months among the partisans, went right out of his head.†   (source)
  • It wouldn't be partisans shooting at us, would it, little grandfather?†   (source)
  • The partisans had now moved to a new campground.†   (source)
  • Svirid wished he could leave the partisans and go back to his old, private, independent life.†   (source)
  • The partisans moved parallel to the highway and occasionally they made use of it.†   (source)
  • The bullets of the partisans mowed them down.†   (source)
  • Then everything he said about the partisans and the shooting was true.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Lately the Nazis were desperate to capture partisans, Aunt Hannah explained, to track them to their secret camps.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • Members of Congress have often acted like State partisans rather than impartial guardians of a common interest.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The partisans had a limited supply of cartridges and were under orders to fire only at short range and at clearly visible targets.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN THE FOREST BROTHERHOOD 1 It was more than a year since Yurii Andreievich had been taken prisoner by the partisans.†   (source)
  • The position would have been catastrophic for the partisans had the radius of the encirclement been smaller.†   (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)
  • After several days' hard fighting, the partisans defeated the Whites and broke through to their rear.†   (source)
  • He was even thinner, more neglected, and more unkempt than when he went to Yuriatin after escaping from the partisans.†   (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)
  • But everyday, current reality was still there, Russia was going through the October revolution, and he was a prisoner of the partisans.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • CHAPTER TWELVE THE ROWAN TREE 1 The convoy with the partisans' families, complete with children and belongings, had long been following the main partisan force.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • And what are the partisans?†   (source)
  • The partisans.†   (source)
  • Partisans!†   (source)
  • I joined the partisans.†   (source)
  • The partisans were few.†   (source)
  • He moved among them like a shadow—he was remote from their passionate fullblooded partisanship.†   (source)
  • There was a link of understanding between them, more important than affection or partisanship.†   (source)
  • You know the one, Jordan, who is with the partizan group.†   (source)
  • The partizans did their damage and pulled out.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Robin Wood was a Saxon partizan.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • How do you like partizan work?†   (source)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • Nothing wrong when sane women with the vote might rid politics of partisanship, greed, crookedness?†   (source)
  • Stay, yonder she is, where you see a group of partisans.†   (source)
  • The prophecies of the French partisans began to pass for facts.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Still, marquise, it has been so with other usurpers—Cromwell, for instance, who was not half so bad as Napoleon, had his partisans and advocates.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Amidst these lukewarm partisans and ardent antagonists a small number of believers exist, who are ready to brave all obstacles and to scorn all dangers in defence of their faith.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Almost all these gentlemen were in heart partisans of the Emperor, and had their opinions about the speedy end of the campaign.†   (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)
  • 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.†   (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)
  • Napoleon, in the Island of Elba, is too near France, and his proximity keeps up the hopes of his partisans.†   (source)
  • The more experienced and sagacious chiefs distinctly foresaw the utter impossibility of two partisans so renowned, so hostile, and who had so long been rivals in fame, as their prisoner and their native leader, existing amicably in the same tribe.†   (source)
  • Some of the young men, as Levin observed, belonged to the old party; and some of the very oldest noblemen, on the contrary, were whispering with Sviazhsky, and were evidently ardent partisans of the new party.†   (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)
  • After these neophytes came a guard of warders on foot, in the same sable livery, amidst whose partisans might be seen the pale form of the accused, moving with a slow but undismayed step towards the scene of her fate.†   (source)
  • He had proposed for Miss Swartz, but had been rejected scornfully by the partisans of that lady, who married her to a young sprig of Scotch nobility.†   (source)
  • "Well," said the marquise, "it seems probable that, by the aid of the Holy Alliance, we shall be rid of Napoleon; and we must trust to the vigilance of M. de Villefort to purify Marseilles of his partisans.†   (source)
  • But she rose at the command of the men with partisans, and walked with a tolerably firm step, preceded by Charmolue and the priests of the officiality, between two rows of halberds, towards a medium-sized door which suddenly opened and closed again behind her, and which produced upon the grief-stricken Gringoire the effect of a horrible mouth which had just devoured her.†   (source)
  • It numbers its partisans, and compromises their welfare in its cause: they, on the other hand, become acquainted with each other, and their zeal is increased by their number.†   (source)
  • But the partisans of the French prophesied a more speedy extermination of the Emperor's enemies than this; and it was agreed on all hands that Prussians and British would never return except as prisoners in the rear of the conquering army.†   (source)
  • If we are to judge by all the vengeance that the followers of the usurper exercised on the partisans of the king, when, in their turn, they were in power, your brother would be to-day, in all probability, condemned to death.†   (source)
  • It is clear that the greater the privileges of the executive authority are, the greater is the temptation; the more the ambition of the candidates is excited, the more warmly are their interests espoused by a throng of partisans who hope to share the power when their patron has won the prize.†   (source)
  • Owing to this change, the worthy shipowner became at that moment—we will not say all powerful, because Morrel was a prudent and rather a timid man, so much so, that many of the most zealous partisans of Bonaparte accused him of "moderation"—but sufficiently influential to make a demand in favor of Dantes.†   (source)
  • Lastly, in the exercise of the right of political association, there is a third degree: the partisans of an opinion may unite in electoral bodies, and choose delegates to represent them in a central assembly.†   (source)
  • In the United States, if a political character attacks a sect, this may not prevent even the partisans of that very sect from supporting him; but if he attacks all the sects together, everyone abandons him, and he remains alone.†   (source)
  • …cannot conceive that a truth which is so self-evident should not already have been more generally admitted in Europe; it is comprehensible that the persons who hope to bring about revolutions by means of the press should be desirous of confining its action to a few powerful organs, but it is perfectly incredible that the partisans of the existing state of things, and the natural supporters of the law, should attempt to diminish the influence of the press by concentrating its authority.†   (source)
  • The partisans of Nullification in the South maintain, on the contrary, that the intention of the Americans in uniting was not to reduce themselves to the condition of one and the same people; that they meant to constitute a league of independent States; and that each State, consequently retains its entire sovereignty, if not de facto, at least de jure; and has the right of putting its own construction upon the laws of Congress, and of suspending their execution within the limits of its…†   (source)
  • ] The partisans of centralization in Europe are wont to maintain that the Government directs the affairs of each locality better than the citizens could do it for themselves; this may be true when the central power is enlightened, and when the local districts are ignorant; when it is as alert as they are slow; when it is accustomed to act, and they to obey.†   (source)
  • But the revolutionists of America are obliged to profess an ostensible respect for Christian morality and equity, which does not easily permit them to violate the laws that oppose their designs; nor would they find it easy to surmount the scruples of their partisans, even if they were able to get over their own.†   (source)
  • As the most distinguished partisans of the other side of the question are unable to surmount the obstacles which exclude them from power, they require some means of establishing themselves upon their own basis, and of opposing the moral authority of the minority to the physical power which domineers over it.†   (source)
  • Not indeed that he is naturally weak or hostile to the Union; for when the majority decided against the claims of the partisans of nullification, he put himself at its head, asserted the doctrines which the nation held distinctly and energetically, and was the first to recommend forcible measures; but General Jackson appears to me, if I may use the American expressions, to be a Federalist by taste, and a Republican by calculation.†   (source)
  • By the side of these religious men I discern others whose looks are turned to the earth more than to Heaven; they are the partisans of liberty, not only as the source of the noblest virtues, but more especially as the root of all solid advantages; and they sincerely desire to extend its sway, and to impart its blessings to mankind.†   (source)
  • Thus it happens that whenever those who are hostile have the opportunity to attack they do it like partisans, whilst the others defend lukewarmly, in such wise that the prince is endangered along with them.†   (source)
  • They took positions as they wished: Hera, Athena, Poseidon, girdler of the earth, and Hermes, most sharp-witted of them all; Hephaistos, proud and brawny but with tottery shanks: these were the seaborne Akhaians' partisans.†   (source)
  • (*) Having exterminated the leaders, and turned their partisans into his friends, the duke laid sufficiently good foundations to his power, having all the Romagna and the Duchy of Urbino; and the people now beginning to appreciate their prosperity, he gained them all over to himself.†   (source)
  • We would Profiles in Courage ,-. v%/ar> 41 respect his nonpartisan, nonsectional approach.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonpartisan means not and reverses the meaning of partisan. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • For a fleeting interlude the prospect of truly nonpartisan cooperation between them appeared attainable.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 ….†   (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)
  • 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…†   (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. e./, to plunder).†   (source)
  • / Nevertheless, a country congressman would be offended if his partisans, in announcing his appearance on the stump, did not prefix /Hon.†   (source)
  • Worcester, who had begun his lexicographical labors by editing Johnson's dictionary, was a good deal more conservative than Webster, and so the partisans of conformity rallied around him, and for [Pg255] a while the controversy took on all the rancor of a personal quarrel.†   (source)
  • Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!†   (source)
  • On reaching the top he saw at the foot of it over two hundred men, as it seemed to him, armed with weapons of various sorts, lances, crossbows, partisans, halberds, and pikes, and a few muskets and a great many bucklers.†   (source)
  • They have decried all free government as inconsistent with the order of society, and have indulged themselves in malicious exultation over its friends and partisans.†   (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)
  • — [Exeunt Tybalt with his Partizans.†   (source)
  • …an impression had the rejection of Quiteria made on Camacho's mind that it banished her at once from his thoughts; and so the counsels of the priest, who was a wise and kindly disposed man, prevailed with him, and by their means he and his partisans were pacified and tranquillised, and to prove it put up their swords again, inveighing against the pliancy of Quiteria rather than the craftiness of Basilio; Camacho maintaining that, if Quiteria as a maiden had such a love for Basilio,…†   (source)
  • 1 Both these methods of destroying the unity of the Executive have their partisans; but the votaries of an executive council are the most numerous.†   (source)
  • — Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets; And made Verona's ancient citizens Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments, To wield old partisans, in hands as old, Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate: If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.†   (source)
  • And yet the opposers of the new system, in this State, who profess an unlimited admiration for its constitution, are among the most intemperate partisans of a bill of rights.†   (source)
  • The Athenians, finding that the Lacedaemonians would lose fewer partisans by such a measure than themselves, and would become masters of the public deliberations, vigorously opposed and defeated the attempt.†   (source)
  • It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans.†   (source)
  • A perusal of their journals, as well as the candid acknowledgments of such as have had a seat in that assembly, will inform us, that the members have but too frequently displayed the character, rather of partisans of their respective States, than of impartial guardians of a common interest; that where on one occasion improper sacrifices have been made of local considerations, to the aggrandizement of the federal government, the great interests of the nation have suffered on a hundred,…†   (source)
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  • Becoming partisan fighters for the Russians might have kept them safe.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Is that a partisan there, that old man with the saw cutting trees?†   (source)
  • Dr. Zelman, the partisan doctor, kept telling Max how lucky he'd been.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • There is still a widespread feeling against Grace Marks; and this is a most partisan country.†   (source)
  • He defined himself as a natural pacifist, a partisan of definitive reconciliation between Liberals and Conservatives for the good of the nation.†   (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)
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  • He was a Maquis, a partisan.†   (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)
  • The Evening Post, the most partisan in its denunciations, called the war "unnatural, unconstitutional, unnecessary, unjust, dangerous, hazardous, and unprofitable."†   (source)
  • The veteran politicians and ward bosses of the deeply partisan city don't give him a chance of winning.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Pennsylvania was at a crisis, fueled by partisan rage.†   (source)
  • It was little wonder, then, that an attack on the nation's capital was yet another occasion for partisan bickering.†   (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)
  • Also, earlier today I was trying to deal with another partisan group, trying to see whether we might be confident of help.'†   (source)
  • If you came here to dispose of a partisan, don't even bother trying.†   (source)
  • The partisan army was born of the union of the two.†   (source)
  • No partisan, personal or sectional considerations could outweigh his devotion to the national interest and to the truth.†   (source)
  • She explained that she was a partisan, a special kind of fighter.†   (source)
  • FIVE WEEKS LATER JEWISH PARTISAN CAMP LODA FOREST†   (source)
  • Different partisan groups were targeting trains all over the east.†   (source)
  • Mr. Jablonski wasn't Jewish or a partisan — he was a spy.†   (source)
  • A partisan spirit infects all political bodies.†   (source)
  • He imagined that he had seen them all at the partisan camp.†   (source)
  • The partisan force was constantly on the move, and Yurii Andreievich moved with it.†   (source)
  • It proved to be an equally dull collection of minutes of partisan meetings.†   (source)
  • The worried partisan leader was reassured.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He professes a heartfelt belief in the southern cause, while she is the daughter of a ferociously partisan northern senator.†   (source)
  • Then we heard the partisan outcry as the VMI players appeared on the opposite side of the field house.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
    through the graves the wind is blowing,
    freedom soon will come;
    then we'll come from the shadows.
    —Leonard Cohen, "The Partisan"
      Summer Vacation†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • [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)
  • 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 ….†   (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…†   (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)
  • He was favored by the partisan chief, Liberius Mikulitsyn, who liked his company and made him sleep in his tent.†   (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)
  • The requisitioned supplies were found to contain a whole jar of cocaine, to which the partisan chief had recently become addicted.†   (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)
  • By such qualities Pamphil had established his fame, and he was held in great esteem by partisan chiefs and Party leaders.†   (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)
  • All this was counter to the intentions of the partisan command, working havoc with the plan made by Liberius.†   (source)
  • …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)
  • …sensitive shrinking from undeserved censure which 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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • CHAPTER TWELVE THE ROWAN TREE 1 The convoy with the partisans' families, complete with children and belongings, had long been following the main partisan force.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part.†   (source)
  • I looked around and could see my friends and enemies in a minute, jeering or urging, distrustful, partisan, indignant, crying.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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…†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • To this spot the partisan now turned his wistful gaze, nor was he long in making his decision.†   (source)
  • On August 24 Davydov's first partisan detachment was formed and then others were recognized.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • 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 friar was now completely accoutred as a yeoman, with sword and buckler, bow, and quiver, and a strong partisan over his shoulder.†   (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)
  • DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • …received by heretics; it is to reproach the idol 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)
  • 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)
  • If you meet a sectary or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines, but meet on what common ground remains,—if only that the sun shines and the rain rains for both,—the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it, the boundary mountains on which the eye had fastened have melted into air.†   (source)
  • Then, upon seeing my Musketeers they changed their minds, and forgot their private hatred for partisan hatred; for your Majesty cannot be ignorant that the Musketeers, who belong to the king and nobody but the king, are the natural enemies of the Guardsmen, who belong to the cardinal.†   (source)
  • "—And making his way through the ring, amidst the laughter of all around, he appeared in majestic triumph, his huge partisan in one hand, and in the other a halter, one end of which was fastened to the neck of the unfortunate Isaac of York, who, bent down by sorrow and terror, was dragged on by the victorious priest, who shouted aloud, "Where is Allan-a-Dale, to chronicle me in a ballad, or if it were but a lay?†   (source)
  • Many citizens, seeing the women flying toward the High Street, leaving their children crying at the open doors, hastened to don the cuirass, and supporting their somewhat uncertain courage with a musket or a partisan, directed their steps toward the hostelry of the Jolly Miller, before which was gathered, increasing every minute, a compact group, vociferous and full of curiosity.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • The roar of one falling tower followed another—I gave up thought of life; and deeming it a dishonour to one of my profession to pass out of this world in company with a Jew, I heaved up my halberd to beat his brains out; but I took pity on his grey hairs, and judged it better to lay down the partisan, and take up my spiritual weapon for his conversion.†   (source)
  • The young partisan turned his head with a calm smile as he answered "They are counting the scalps over the lodge of Hard-Heart!"†   (source)
  • I trust well that a fool—I mean, d'ye see me, sirs, a fool that is free of his guild and master of his craft, and can give as much relish and flavour to a cup of wine as ever a flitch of bacon can—I say, brethren, such a fool shall never want a wise clerk to pray for or fight for him at a strait, while I can say a mass or flourish a partisan."†   (source)
  • As it drew nigh, the partisan of the Loups was seen at its head, followed by a dozen younger warriors of his tribe.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • A little disappointed, the young partisan stepped modestly back, making way for the recent comers to approach.†   (source)
  • Partisan, brave, &c. are of the number.†   (source)
  • Go; the men are calling their partisan.†   (source)
  • But the bloody trophy in the hand of the partisan served as an incentive to the attacked, as well as to the assailants.†   (source)
  • "Does the partisan of the Tetons see men on these naked fields?" retorted the trapper, with great steadiness of mien.†   (source)
  • "The words of my father are in my ears," returned the young partisan, making a grave and respectful gesture of assent.†   (source)
  • The band in view was mounted to a man; and as it had come so far to rescue, or to revenge, their greatest partisan, he had no reason to doubt its being composed entirely of braves.†   (source)
  • A fierce and savage joy had existed in the camp, from the instant when it had been announced that their own chief was returning with the long-dreaded and hated partisan of their enemies.†   (source)
  • "I know that the Dahcotahs are a wise and great people," at length the trapper commenced, again addressing himself to the chief; "but does not their partisan know a single brother who is base?"†   (source)
  • When he saw the well-known person of the Teton partisan enter the river, he waved his hand in triumph, and flourishing his lance, he raised the thrilling war-cry of his people, as a challenge for him to come on.†   (source)
  • These generous orders were strictly obeyed; and though so many hearts in the troop panted to share in the glory and danger of their partisan, not a warrior was found, among them all, who did not know how to conceal his impatience under the usual mask of Indian self-restraint.†   (source)
  • Released from any immediate calls of duty, and strongly urged to the measure by Paul, who was in his company, he determined to take horse, and cross the country to visit the partisan, and to enquire into the fate of his friend the trapper.†   (source)
  • The heart of Middleton beat quick, as the young partisan[*] alluded to the charms of Inez, and for an instant he cast an impatient glance at his little line of artillerists; but the chief from that moment appeared to forget he had ever seen so fair a being.†   (source)
  • Mahtoree is their partisan.†   (source)
  • Instead of any longer throwing away the precious moments, in fruitless endeavours to induce his foe to cross the stream, the young partisan of the Pawnees led his troops, at a swift gallop, along its margin, in quest of some favourable spot, where by a sudden push he might throw his own band without loss to the opposite shore.†   (source)
  • He had before found reason to believe, that the Teton partisan was one of those bold spirits, who overstep the limits which use and education fix to the opinions of man, in every state of society, and he now saw plainly that he must adopt some artifice to deceive him, different from that which had succeeded so well with his followers.†   (source)
  • I became his zealous partisan, and contributed all I could to raise a party in his favour, and we combated for him a while with some hopes of success.†   (source)
  • Shall I strike at it with my partisan?†   (source)
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