He was called the Corsican Monster, the Poisoner, and a hundred other epithets in the newspapers of the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emancipation] Reference

I never saw such a figure as the fellow cut in what he called a Corsican habit, at one of Mrs. Cornely’s balls, at Carlisle House.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference

Alphonso d'Ornano, often called the Corsican Captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Kings' Byways] Reference

A strange family feud, quite "Corsican" in its character, came to light some time ago, while we were at Cunningham's Ford.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference

"No, he is a countryman of yours, if a Corsican is a countryman of any one's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference

When a Corsican says that he has given his enemy a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

Corsican child is urged on to vengeance by his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

This first essay of Corsican hospitality was not amiss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

It was a forelock once stamped a Corsican with the look of emperor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

Corsican who altered the world's map was of still smaller proportions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives] Reference

The Norman, like the Corsican, was an assassin as well as a conqueror.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

Corsican history, that it must necessarily occupy a conspicuous place in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

One of the longest, "Colomba," a tale of Corsican life, is better known in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

The Corsican knew it but, with the superstition born in him, trusted to his star.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Russia] Reference

A lazy Corsican is leading a goat, scarcely more bearded and shaggy than its owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

Genoese to the Corsican service; and a thousand Corsican militia lined the river bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

Even the plot with its Corsican scenery has a strong resemblance to Cavalleria Rusticana.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

It has been often remarked, that the Corsican villages are most commonly built on high ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

Yet on these barren solitudes the Corsican shepherd spends his listless days and watchful nights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

It is not often that the Corsican women ride while the men walk, the reverse being generally the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

We were not long in discovering that Corsican scenery is of a peculiar and highly interesting character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

The commandant succeeded with difficulty in shutting himself up in the citadel with the royal Corsican regiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

We had no opportunity of ascertaining how low perpetual snow hangs on the sides of the highest Corsican mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

The Roman historians relate that this battle was fought on “The Field of Myrtles,” a name appropriate to a Corsican.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference

His successor was a Sardinian; soon afterwards a Corsican became pasha of Algiers, then another Sardinian; Ochiali was a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

Descended from a Corsican family, this personage came to Rome when very young, about 1835, and at first became a seminarist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He takes advantage of the prison school and learns how to read and write; he picks up Corsican just by listening to the men talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Giltz: DVDs: A Prophet the Next Godfather ? Yep, it's That Good] Reference

Who better than Madame d'Abrantes could have given Balzac the background for the scene of Corsican hatred so vividly portrayed in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference

An exception may perhaps be allowed in the course of this narrative for some account of the English intervention in Corsican affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference