The recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"recusant," yet was High Sheriff of his county in 1589. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
He was captured and executed as a recusant and wizard. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
It boasts three priest-holes, and a rich recusant history. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
Armadas to bring the recusant island back to the Roman submission. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
It can be a double whammy - from the seller and ebay. — recusant. From Wordnik.com. [The End of eBay’s Egalitarianism - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Call them the recusant establishment of literate and liberal England. From Wordnik.com. [New Labour's divorce from liberal England] Reference
His vows, yes, he declares himself recusant, he is absent and unblessed. From Wordnik.com. [A River So Long] Reference
I was going to recommend the thesaurus route... but recusant stole my words!. From Wordnik.com. [Help a writer in distress] Reference
We badly want to do a seies about the recusant houses of England, priest-hides, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
Then Michel walked into the kitchen as though he were about to fetch the recusant himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Lion of Granpere] Reference
The time is coming when being a neo-recusant will once again be an opportunity for martyrdom. From Wordnik.com. ["In the valley of the shadow of death..."] Reference
Their view is that the poem concerns the love story of the recusant couple, Anne and Roger Line. From Wordnik.com. [11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003] Reference
Illi episcopi superhumerale non habent, qui aliorum onera ferre recusant: quales erant illi de quibus. From Wordnik.com. [Hamilton: "A Liturgy of Reform"] Reference
In McGrain v. Daugherty, a recusant witness (the AG's brother) refused to comply with issued subpoenas. From Wordnik.com. [It's Official : The DOJ will not enforce the House Contempt Charges] Reference
The recusant States must be whipped back into submission to the autocrats that would direct their affairs. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War] Reference
Gareth, re: Shakespeare, I do think we have to be careful about placing him in the recusant Catholic group. From Wordnik.com. [The Myth of Lady Jane] Reference
Moreover, the refusal of the Oath was not to be treason, as under Henry VIII.; it merely precluded the recusant from office. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Many strange stories are told of the evasions of the Acts. On one occasion whilst it was still illegal for a popish recusant to own a horse of. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ulster Right?] Reference
Arrested numerous times after his return, it was then that Fr Southworth began to organise plague relief for the recusant poor of Westminster. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-30] Reference
The next five minutes were taken up in discussing the case of the recusant boiler, and then Clara discovered that she had better go and fetch her mother. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
Herluin thanked him for the offer, but with no very great enthusiasm, perhaps doubtful how much work Ramsey was likely to get out of this recusant youth. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy Thief]
By the "wheat," in the view of this writer, is meant the aggregate of those who persevered in their recusant policy up to the practical result of secession. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844] Reference
Overhearing the words Papist and recusant, Master Topcliffe, who was seated on the other side of Lady Neville, let loose a stream of venom against all Catholics. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism. From Wordnik.com. [B.C. budget bites into green programs « Stephen Rees's blog] Reference
We also managed, after business-hours, when it was of no use making expeditions to wharf or custom-house after recusant carpet-bags, to drive to the Botanic Gardens. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
Rann, who gave out his bass notes with unusual complacency and threw an extra ray of severity into the glances he sent over his spectacles at the recusant Will Maskery. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Bede] Reference
African in this Republic, under the wholesome regimen of civilization, with his emancipated brethren in the West Indies, or his recusant, fugitive brother in the Canadas. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
At first the warder's idea was, that he was seized by the recusant Sylvan. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
"But why, my lord, must Raffden be treated better than his brother recusant?". From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
Poor king Cophetua did not, however, shed many tears for the loss of his recusant beggar-maid. From Wordnik.com. [Heather and Snow] Reference
I, a heretic and recusant, to come staring and standing round where the faithful were kneeling and praying?. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Holidays, and Others] Reference
If any of them proved refractory, he would himself send the recusant to prison, or ship him off for Islanders. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
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