partizan

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Mrs. Marple, of course, is her daughter’s partizan, though in some ways it suits us to stand together.

From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold

Classicus took his departure, assuring the tribune that he would go to Bai� where young Tiberius lived in his father's villa, and get the indorsement of the lad, to whom Flaccus was notedly a partizan.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

Macaulay here speaks like a heated haranguer or Parliamentary partizan, not like an historian or a critic.

From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. by Macbain, Alexander

The latter was a Prussian partizan who, having distinguished himself after Jena, was now striving to use the Austrian war in order to arouse the North Germans.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan

But as the political excitement subsided and he could feel the pulse of the American people apart from the influence of partizan zeal, he was the better able to analyze their verdict.

From Unfettered A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)