Not content with clearing their own skirts of the evil, the Friends of that day took an active part in the formation of the abolition societies of New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.
I have felt it my duty in times past to take an active part--often very distasteful to me--in political matters, having for my first object the deliverance of my country from the crime and curse of slavery.
Ellis, Roebuck, and I took an active part in the debate, and among those from the Inns of Court who joined in it, I remember Charles Villiers.
I was abroad at the time, but I sent in my name to the Committee as soon as I heard of it, and took an active part in the proceedings from the time of my return.
Among other matters of importance in which I took an active part, but which excited little interest in the public, two deserve particular mention.
In the year 1488, Keating was one of those who took an active part in favour of the pretender Lambert Simnel, and although his pardon had been sternly refused by Henry VII.
The Deputy, who, like most laymen of that age, had a strong theological turn, also took an active part in the discussion.
He took an active part in all military operations, and fell fighting gallantly on a memorable day to be hereafter mentioned.
Your friends everywhere look to you to take an active part in removing the monarchical rubbish of our government.
All those who have been by his majesty appointed of his council in any of the colonies, and since taken an active part in the civil or military department under the Congress or under any establishment of the rebel government.
Colonel Burr took an active part, and greatly distinguished himself in support of Mr. Gallatin's claim.
Lloyd Garrison took the ground of immediate emancipation and urged the duty of unconditional liberty without expatriation, Mrs. Mott took an active part in the movement.
Since then, she has given much of her time to the Female Suffrage movement, and so late as November, 1871, she took an active part in the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Peace Society.
The world are being turned upside down, and I think we might as well take an active part in it as not.
As a poet he did not attain any very high flight, but he was a great pamphleteer, and, taking an active part in religious controversy, by his publications he drew upon himself a storm of opposition and in the end of persecution.
These were confirmed by a conference of representatives of all the interested States at Aix-la-Chapelle (May 2), in which Temple took an active part.
English and Scottish representatives took an active part in the proceedings.
The right of the English representative to sit in the Council and take an active part in its deliberations continued till 1626.
The events of the fourth of September prevented the execution of this sentence, and he lived to take an active part in the agitation of the thirty-first of October.
Theiz escaped from Paris to London on the 29th of July; he took an active part in the struggle to the last, and was close to Vermorel when wounded at the barricade of the Château d'Eau.
Becoming a member of the Commune, he took an active part in carrying into effect the decrees which led, among other things, to the demolition of the Vendôme Column and of the house of M.
Among them was General Cirilo de los Santos, better known by his nickname "Guayubin" (the name of the town where he was born) who took an active part in the political disturbances of the Republic for many years.
It is a pathetic instance of the irony of fate that Queen Adelaide should have thus been supposed to desire to take an active part in politics.
Prince of Wales in this country to avoid taking an active part in politics and political contentions.
Bailly also took an active part in drawing up the records of his district, and the records of the body of electors.
He took an active part in the Revolutionary struggle for independence.
No portion of the State presents a more glowing page of unflinching patriotic valor than Mecklenburg, always taking an active part in every political movement, at home or abroad, leading to independence.
Abundant in every good word and work, he took an active part in moulding the popular mind for the great struggle of the approaching Revolution.
When Cornwallis lay at Charlotte in 1780, Graham took an active part in attacking his foraging parties, making it extremely difficult and hazardous for them to procure their necessary supplies.
Although news did not travel so rapidly then as now, Greene was soon aware that war was likely to break out at any time, and he took an active part in preparing for it.
Without delay he rejoined the army and at once took anactive part in getting ready for the war.
Paul Revere had taken an active part in the "Boston Tea Party," and the following year, with about thirty other young patriots, he had formed a society to spy out the British plans.
During the insurrection of 1715, the Master of Sinclair took at first an active part, and became the commander of a company of Jacobite gentlemen of Fife.
His father being still alive, and not having taken an active part, his estates escaped forfeiture, and Lord Sinclair endeavoured so to dispose of them as to prevent their becoming the property of the Crown.
The clan Cameron, from whom were descended the chieftains who took an active part in the Jacobite cause, had its seat in Lochaber, of which one of their ancestors had originally received a grant from Robert Bruce.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "active part" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
