A muscular man in a carmagnole swinging a formidable axe pushed forward and the others fell back at his rough order. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
"Salute the President of the Commune, you ----" Before him was a short man in carmagnole and sabre, whom the other prisoners eyed with resentment and alarm. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
"How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world," cried Fox, with the exaggeration of a man ready to dance the carmagnole, "and how much the best!". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
My OED also mentions the carmagnole as a peasant jacket, and additionally, from the encyclopedia: The farandole is an open-chain community dance popular in the County of Nice, France. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Wheels Within Wheels] Reference
To the guillotine, and all Paris dance the carmagnole. From Wordnik.com. [Men, Women and Ghosts] Reference
The carmagnole of the French Revolution is a derivative. From Wordnik.com. [Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog] Reference
Simon taught him to drink, to swear, to sing the carmagnole. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
My OED also mentions the carmagnole as a peasant jacket, and additionally, from the encyclopedia. From Wordnik.com. [Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog] Reference
Empire is small; it is the same person in two costumes: at first in the carmagnole, and later in the embroidered coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Regime, Volume 1] Reference
It was a French Revolution in miniature; we danced the carmagnole in the kitchen and were prepared to conquer the Samoan social world. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
Your Citizen, who would be fashionable, walks abroad, with his Wife on his arm, in red wool nightcap, black shag spencer, and carmagnole complete. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
The circumstances were such that it was necessary for me to get away quickly lest some of the false patriots should do me some carmagnole or other. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover] Reference
Conspirators, agents of the foreigner, -- such were all those sansculottes in red cap and carmagnole and sabots who recklessly outbid the Jacobins in patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [Dieux ont soif. English] Reference
People's-friend, crowned with an oak-garland; amid the wavy sea of red nightcaps, carmagnole jackets, grenadier bonnets and female mob-caps; far-sounding like a sea!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
The procession, now in full blast, demands the carmagnole, and the Convention consents; even some of the deputies descend from their benches and cut the pigeon-wing with the merry prostitutes. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 3] Reference
“Let’s dance the carmagnole, hooray for the sound, hooray for the sound/Let’s dance the carmagnole, hooray for the sound of the cannons!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Mistaken Wife] Reference
Don the carmagnole and tremble; become rustics and dolts, and prove your civism by the absence of all education. ". From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 3] Reference
Ronsin the Playwright; six thousand strong; in 'red nightcap, in tricolor waistcoat, in black-shag trousers, black-shag spencer, with enormous moustachioes, enormous sabre, -- in carmagnole complete;' (See. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Were dancing an Irish carmagnole. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes] Reference
"bands play the air of the carmagnole and 'Malbrook.'. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution - Volume 3] Reference
Dansons la carmagnole. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1] Reference
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