Partisans
[,pɑ:ti'zænz]
Examples
- Almost all these gentlemen were in heart partisans of the Emperor, and had their opinions about the speedy end of the campaign. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The prophecies of the French partisans began to pass for facts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- 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. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Our native oak, as his partisans called him, was visited truly by a nipping winter. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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