Some looked more like courtiers than republicans, while others affected the style of the sansculotte. From Wordnik.com. [The Mistaken Wife] Reference
‘Two sansculotte poets: John Freeth and Joseph Mather’, in Lucas, John, ed. Writing and Radicalism, Harlow: Longman, 1996, pp. 61-83. From Wordnik.com. [George Garrett and the USA] Reference
Their influence in government would be infinitely more wholesome than the influence of the white sansculotte, the riff-raff, the idlers, the rowdies, and the outlaws. From Wordnik.com. [History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest] Reference
In the hope of landing a fat consultancy contract with a confused minister or with a terror-stricken central banker, with a quadriplegic stock exchange or with a dying industry lobby, with sansculotte trade unions or with gullible Western NGOs - they gypsy around, living off tattered suitcases in shabby hotels, yearning to strike gold in the next station of their mendicant's journey. From Wordnik.com. [The Expat Experts] Reference
And so she allowed them to drag her through the sansculotte mob of. From Wordnik.com. [I Will Repay] Reference
"But he looks like a sansculotte, madame," the staunch fellow warned her. From Wordnik.com. [Scaramouche] Reference
All those present were dressed in the black-shag spencer, the seedy black breeches, and down-at-heel boots, which had become recognised as the distinctive uniform of the sansculotte party. From Wordnik.com. [I Will Repay] Reference
With this ill-kempt sansculotte giant in front of him, he almost felt as if he were already arraigned before that awful, merciless tribunal, to which he had dragged so many innocent victims. From Wordnik.com. [I Will Repay] Reference
Verman roared with delight, appearing to be wholly unconscious that the lids of his right eye were swollen shut and that his attire, not too finical before the struggle, now entitled him to unquestioned rank as a sansculotte. From Wordnik.com. [Penrod] Reference
In these desperate straits, Paris, at least sansculotte Paris, frenzied and wild for vengeance, falls upon the mad expedient of massacring the prisoners: more than a thousand suspected royalists are slaughtered, after brief improvised Trial or pretence of trial; or even without trial at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
Thoreau was an American sansculotte, a believer in the natural man; Ripley was mainly a socialist; Margaret Fuller was one of the earliest leaders in woman's rights; Alcott was a Neo-Platonist, a vegetarian, and a non-resistant; while Emerson sympathized largely with Thoreau, and from his poetic exaltation of Nature was looked upon as a pantheist by those who were not accustomed to nice discriminations. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne]
He worked like a sansculotte on a barricade. From Wordnik.com. [The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont] Reference
(14) On the 20th of June 1792, sansculotte Paris, assembling in its thousands, broke into the Tuileries, and called upon the king to remove his veto upon the decree against the priests, and to recall the ministry -- Roland's -- which he had just dismissed. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
Mathieu, a sansculotte |. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference
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