partizan
Example Sentences
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The way was thus paved for the participation of Rome, as a partizan of the anti-Macedonian faction, in the struggles which had so long divided the Greek world.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
Most disquieting of all, there were movements both of intellectual agitation and of active partizan warfare in Prussia that presaged a speedy convalescence on her part.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
In March she came up to Paris and placed her services as journalist and partizan generally at the disposal of Ledru-Rollin, Minister of the Interior under the new Government.
From Famous Women: George Sand by Thomas, Bertha
I had as lief have a Reed that will do me no service, as a partizan I could not heave.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
The former of these seems to have been written by a partizan of Malachy, since it ignores Murtough.
From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Lawlor, Hugh Jackson
