partizan

Example Sentences

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Anastasius had favored the Greens, but Justinian was a partizan of the Blues.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

Muriel was beautiful, but that was not all: she was generous and fearless, a loyal friend and a staunch partizan.

From Prescott of Saskatchewan by Dunton, W. Herbert

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

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

He was one of the golden-haired Greeks and the multitude, for ever partizan to the strongest man, roared and thundered its encouragement to him.

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