"Loyalist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with several military gentlemen. It was not difficult to distinguish him from all others. He is tall and well proportioned, and his personal appearance truly noble and majestic." "He is tall and of easy and agreeable address," the loyalist Curwen had remarked a few weeks before; while Mrs. John Adams, warm-hearted and clever, wrote to her husband after the general's arrival: "Dignity, ease, and complacency, the gentleman and the soldier, look agreeably blended in him. Modesty marks every line and ...
— George Washington, Vol. I • Henry Cabot Lodge
... in his politics a thorough loyalist. When a young man he even fought at the siege of Leicester, when it was besieged by the royal army. Probably the horrible cruelties practised upon the peaceful inhabitants, by the cavaliers, at the taking of that city, induced him to leave the service. His pastor, J. Gifford, ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... noble thoughts of manhood; By the toil of your forefathers; By their sacrifices for you; By the Loyalist tradition; And your own heart's generous instincts; I adjure ...
— Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure • W.D. Lighthall
... purpose of obtaining a democratic republic. It turned into a war which was scarcely less essentially religious than the wars of the Cevennes or of the Anabaptists. Yet two great Catholic provinces remained quiet during the struggle, and a great proportion of the loyalist force which crushed the rebellion consisted ...
— Historical and Political Essays • William Edward Hartpole Lecky
... Firelocks use not to parley. Be not unadvised, but think of your liberty, for I vow all hopes of relief are taken from you; and our intents are not to starve you but to batter and storm you and then hang you all, and follow the rest of that rebellious crewe. I am no bread-and-cheese rogue, but as ever a Loyalist, and will ever be while I can write ...
— The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book - Revised Edition, 1890 • William Henry Gladstone
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