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Usage examples of jacobin.

A few minutes afterwards, a tall Jacobin friar, blind of one eye, called Corsini, whom I had known in Venice, came in and paid me many compliments.

He claimed to have created a Russian Jacobinism and yet only borrowed from the Jacobins their technique of action, since he, too, denied every principle and every virtue.

Gozzi, placing implicit confidence in the physician, would not listen to his mother, and did not send for the Jacobin friar.

But neither the Committee nor the Muscadins could destroy the Jacobin himself.

The Parisian mob, however much it had now lost of its insurrectional vigour, felt starvation no less keenly than before, and hunger made doubly dangerous the continued strugglings of Jacobins and Muscadins for power.

They were supported by local Jacobin militants who had either been harassed during the federalist ascendancy or who simply enjoyed showing off their anticlerical zeal.

I gave way to that feeling of false pride which so often causes the ruin of young men, and after losing four sequins I expressed a wish to retire, but my honest friend, the Jacobin contrived to make me risk four more sequins in partnership with him.

That would go some way to providing a feeling of revenge, an emotion that Antoine de la Mery conjured up every time he thought of the Jacobin murderer.

Frankly, I find it hard to see how a state can be both pro-slavery and antisecession, as persnickety Kentucky seems to be, but the Ancient is willing to take the most egregious abuse from the abolitionist Jacobins among the Republicans rather than offend the peace Democrats who still profess to be loyal.

Oh, Mrs Fox knows there is gossip about her, generated by ladies who judge her to be a disgrace to polite society, a sansculotte in disguise, a Jacobin with an ugly face.

He looked until he saw his mistress coming hastily, and she was soon with him, and they rejoiced greatly, and the good Jacobin took off his gown and his scapulary, and kissed and cuddled tightly the fair nun.

Edmund Charles Genet, the audacious new envoy from Jacobin France, was the son of Edme Genet, the French foreign office translator, with whom Adams had once worked in Paris, turning out propaganda for the American Revolution.

There were Jacobins, Proudhonists, Internationalists, Blanquists and several other variations.

Jacobin and Cordelier Clubs the coarsest libels were poured forth against her with unremitting perseverance to stimulate and justify the most obscene and ferocious threats.

These parties are known in history as the Thermidorians and the Jacobins.