Opponent of James II

Usage examples of whig.

Pakington, in adopting their policy, and thwarting a whig plenipotentiary.

Whig party have abandoned their principles by adopting him as their candidate.

Whigs, was constantly using its principle and its prestige as a cloak for the aggrandizement of special interests.

Whig, and it is ten to one if the talk turn not upon the turning of alcaics, or the contest between blank verse or rhyme.

As for the Nobility, they had been as preoccupied with a violent and ghastly spectacle of a different character: down in Westminster, the Whigs had suddenly begun to ask pointed questions as to what had become of certain Asiento revenues.

He had nae ill-will to the Whig bodies, and liked little to see the blude rin, though, being obliged to follow Sir Robert in hunting and hosting, watching and warding, he saw muckle mischief, and maybe did some, that he couldna avoid.

Hatless and cloakless, Sir John had fled to his Whig friends in Nottinghamshire to claim reward and sanctuary.

Whigs, who were the men in fact that wrought the most deray among the populace.

Cabinets organized by the only two Presidents elected by the Whig party.

No orator had espoused with more seeming heartiness various liberal opinions, which he abandoned when he became a pet of the Whigs.

The country-party consisted of the tories, reinforced by discontented whigs, who had either been disappointed in their own ambitious views, or felt for the distresses of their country, occasioned by a weak and worthless administration.

Pamphlets and pasquinades were published on both sides of the dispute, which became the general topic of conversation in all assemblies, and people of all ranks espoused one or other party with as much warmth and animosity as had ever inflamed the whigs and tories, even at the most rancorous period of their opposition.

In the Cheraw district, on the Pedee, above the line where Marion commanded, the Whig and Tory warfare, of which we know but little beyond this fact, was one of utter extermination.

The Whig leaders, who seemed to have had all their wisdom and energy taken out of them when the Free Soilers left them, were much alarmed by the strength of the discontent with the existing order of things manifested by the coalition victory in the election of the Constitutional Convention.

At this defection of so many Free Soilers the Whig leaders took heart and made a vigorous and successful resistance.