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Example sentences for "disaffected"

Lexicographically close words:
disadvantage; disadvantaged; disadvantageous; disadvantageously; disadvantages; disaffection; disaggregation; disagreable; disagree; disagreeable
  1. As the disaffected had fought under cover most of the time, I fancy the cavalry did little in this affair.

  2. The protest had little effect, however, and his next proceeding was to come to New Orleans, get into correspondence with other disaffected Mexicans, and thus perfect his plans.

  3. I believe,' said Major Melville, 'that I must give this young man in charge to some of the detached parties of armed volunteers who were lately sent out to overawe the disaffected districts.

  4. A large camp, numbering 4000 disaffected Boers, had been formed near Pretoria, and they were terrorizing the country.

  5. It had been disaffected since the outbreak of the Revolution.

  6. Richard the letter which communicated the flight of the disaffected lords.

  7. Robin of Redesdale, who, methinks, bears a charmed life, has even ventured to rouse the disaffected in my brother's very shire of Warwick.

  8. It is and will be a receptacle for the bad and disaffected population of Europe, when they are not wanted for soldiers, or to supply the navies; and the governments of Europe will favor such a course.

  9. General Lee, sent to Newport (Rhode Island) to advise about throwing up fortifications, called the principal persons among the disaffected before him, and obliged them by a tremendous oath to support the authority of Congress.

  10. Thirdly--They prepared and published documents declaring their adherence to the Church of England, and the calumny of the charges and rumours put forth against them as being disaffected to it.

  11. Though enrolled in the Delian League it remained disaffected towards Athens, and in 447 had to be coerced by the settlement of a cleruchy.

  12. Pizarro, on the other hand, threw open the gates to the disaffected and facilitated their departure.

  13. Pizarro now prepared, as the most effectual means of checking these disorders among the natives, to establish settlements in the heart of the disaffected country.

  14. He suffered the son of his rival to remain in Lima, where his quarters soon became the resort of the disaffected cavaliers.

  15. This points to relationship between the Apostles and the disaffected Franciscans, and the indication is strengthened by the anxiety of the Spirituals to disclaim all connection.

  16. But in spite of these disaffected persons, the prosperity of the city dated from that time.

  17. Time be ready to attack them--and to this let me add that when we consider how many disaffected Men there are in that Colony, it is but little better than an Enemies Country.

  18. It would, I should think, at least put it out of the Power of disaffected Men (and there are some of this Character even here) to amuse their honest Neighbors with vain hopes of Reconciliation.

  19. As the Union armies proceeded to occupy the South, the Union League sent its agents among the disaffected Southern people.

  20. The disaffected politicians of the up-country, who wanted to be cared for in the reconstruction, saw in the organization a means of dislodging from power the political leaders of the low country.

  21. General Charles Lee devised energetic means for curbing the disaffected in the lower country; and his orders were carried into effect by Colonel Woodford, whose vigor was tempered with humanity.

  22. Along with Hondegardo, Gabriel de Royas was sent as receiver of the royal fifth and other tributes belonging to the king, and of the fines which the governor might inflict on the disaffected and recusants.

  23. Or there were disaffected brothers, who had left their convents and were roaming through the land inciting to rebellion, to whom it was needful to teach the value of quiet, however summary the process.

  24. The lines of demarcation between the loyal and the disaffected had grown gradually fainter, until at last they almost entirely vanished.

  25. The long delay of the papal bull, which was kept back by a misunderstanding between the Romish and Spanish courts, gave the disaffected an opportunity to combine for a common object.

  26. The courage of the disaffected sunk entirely, and nothing was left to them but flight or submission.

  27. The extremity to which the regent was reduced gave the disaffected a power which on the present occasion they did not neglect to use.

  28. Meanwhile Surenas was amusing his victorious troops, and seeking to annoy the disaffected Seleucians, by the performance of a farcical ceremony.

  29. The Parthian kings treated them well, and no doubt valued them as a counterpoise to the disaffected Greeks and Syrians of this part of their Empire.

  30. The natives were for the most part disaffected and inclined to hail the Parthians as brethren and deliverers.

  31. Parthia had been insulted by a wanton attack, and had lost some disaffected cities; but no attempt had been made to fulfil the grand boasts with which the war had been undertaken.

  32. Scarcely had Berkeley and his adherents departed on their flight from Jamestown, when some of the disaffected citizens of the town, seeing the lights in the palace so suddenly extinguished, shrewdly suspected their design.

  33. There were roving bands of Indians to the north and west, ready to be roused to an attack by disaffected French or English.

  34. The States had now two rather disaffected peoples.


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