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We have a trio, among others" and he again named the three fair factionists above mentioned "who threw us all daily into more confusion than was ever known in Babel." "Thank heaven!" replied Don Louis, somewhat ungallantly, "our women are of the disposition seemingly so well known to you.
As the charioteers move on in the circuit, the excitement increases; at the second goal, where, especially in the galleries, the white is the ruling color, the people exhaust their flowers and rive the air with screams. "Messala! Messala!" "Ben-Hur! Ben-Hur!" Such are the cries. Upon the passage of the procession, the factionists take their seats and resume conversation.
Factionists, traitors, madmen the Lord preserve us from the unholy influence of such principles!" Glimpses of the Sixties
So, composed and intent through struggle and terror, he continued to prepare for the day when an organized army could take the unhappy inhabitants out of the bloody hands of the two factionists, Simon and John.
Titus himself, as from time to time the horror of his work impressed itself upon him, made overtures to the factionists, neglecting no art or inducement which should convince the seditious that their resistance was foolhardy, even mad. At such times, Nicanor's face became contemptuous and Carus himself frowned at the young general's attitude.
But here are a few who cannot possibly attach to the observance of the first day, which the majority wish to secure, any religious obligation; and would it be anything strange for the sentence to be given, Let these few factionists be made to conform, by persuasion if possible, by force, if necessary.
But our reward for thus endeavouring to make the Bill adaptable to Irish requirements and acceptable to the whole of Ireland was to be dubbed "factionists" and "traitors" by the official Irish Party, who never once during three years' debates in Parliament made the slightest attempt to amend or improve the Bill, but who remained silent and impotent as graven images on the Irish benches whilst the way was being paved for all the ruin and desolation and accumulated horrors that have since come to Ireland through their compliant and criminal imbecility.
Mr Dillon used to hurl another name of anathema at our heads the heads of those of us who were associated with Mr O'Brien in his policy of national reconciliation he used to dub us "Factionists." It was not fair fighting, nor honest warfare, nor decent politics.
To the north gnomish outlines by hundreds against the flames showed where the soldiers of the factionists were placing the topmost stones upon an inner wall or curtain erected just within the Old Wall, which was by this time shaking and cracking under the assaults of a great siege-engine without.
"I said, sir, that he seemed to have meditated a controversy with Congress from the beginning, and he has. He has treated our majorities as hostile to the people; two thirds of both branches of Congress have been treated by him as mere factionists, disunionists, enemies to the country, bent upon its destruction, bargaining with the enemy to destroy the Government.
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