Cromwell

Examples

• After Ireland came Scotland, where Cromwell shattered a Royalist army at the Battle of Dunbar (1650). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Dr. Wilkns, the brother-in-law of Cromwell, who is regarded by some as the founder of the Royal Society, remove d to Oxford, as Warden of Wadham, in 1649. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The Irish Catholics had made a massacre of the Protestant English in Ireland, and now Cromwell suppressed the Irish insurrection with great vigour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Your troops are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, said Cromwell. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On September 3rd, 1658, Cromwell died in the midst of a great storm that did not fail to impress the superstitious. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Cromwell had these qualities and mounted a throne, Rienzi had them and died on the scaffold—all through circumstances. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• In the days of Cromwell, billiards had been tabooed by the Puritan, not on moral grounds, but rather political. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Cromwell would have made a capital mill-owner, Miss Hale. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The standing army of Cromwell turned the long parliament out of doors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Dunkirk, which Cromwell had taken, had already been sold back to France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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