But they had crowded meetings at Faneuil Hall, where Samuel Adams and John Hancock and other patriots talked to them of their rights and wrongs.
The Gull-King hears the awakening call, He hath summoned his Peers and Patriots all, And he asks.
Shall a Minstrel of Erin stand mute by the grave, Where the first--where the last of her Patriots lies?
Everything," answered Bridoul, "and the greatest crime of all would be to remain at home while all good patriots are listening to the friends of the people in the political meetings.
The patriots waited with open mouths for an explanation of this bewildering phenomenon.
We are wasting the Nation's time and keeping hosts of patriots waiting for their just revenge.
He accordingly sent Ropes forward to surprise the patriots at the sink, while he moved with a small force cautiously up towards Gad's Leap, with two objects in view.
The patriots had finished their coffee and taken their guns.
They found the patriots reposing themselves about the roots of the forest trees, on the banks of a stream that came gurgling and plashing down the mountain side.
Perhaps the patriots had been destroyed: he hoped so!
Since the patriots were terrified by their own firing, we need not wonder at the alarm of the rebels.
The suggestion seemed for a moment to strike the slave-owning patriots dumb with surprise and embarrassment.
It was some moments before the patriots fully comprehended this alarming intelligence.
They halted at the natural bridge; the torch was extinguished, and the patriots placed their lanterns under a rock.
They were behind a natural breastwork, similar to that which had sheltered the patriots on the other side.
The confederates denounced it with virtuous indignation, charging the patriots with it, of course.
The patriots reserved him to laugh at, and fired over him at the rebels on the cliff.
It was in those times that the precaution of Stackridge and his fellow-patriots was justified.
Before it was finished, Carl returned, accompanied by four of the patriots and two of the prisoners.
And it is the inference of an Indian newspaper from the fact, that such wretches are not the devoted patriots that they have been described by some, and that the war with them cannot, after all, be very unjust.
His large intellect seemed based on an inferior nature--it was a brilliant set in lead; nor were there indications wanting all along, it has been said, that he was one of those patriots who have their price.
Grant's family may be traced through a line of Puritan patriots far back to England.
As also an humble address (at the close) to all the worthy Patriots of this once Flourishing and happy Kingdom.
Patriots of America--and military officers of every name, view the great example that is set before you.
These writers have ignored the fearful struggle of the patriots with the loyalists, the early leniency of England as expressed in the conduct of General Howe, the Clinton-Cornwallis controversy, and many other important subjects.
Homage we should have in our hearts for those patriots and heroes and sages who with humble means raised their native land--now our native land--from the depths of dependence, and made it a free nation.
Her attachment to and admiration of her native country and its people is as deep and as enthusiastic as was that of the glorious old patriots of olden times.
It was there one of Cambria’s greatest warriors and one of her purest patriots lived and reigned.
What I Saw in Lithuania No matter how zealous patriots we may become in our adopted country, we should not forget altogether our native country.
Villars began with talking about Lafayette; from him they went to the American revolution and Washington, and from them to other patriots and other republics, ancient and modern MM.
The king desires to go to St. Cloud, but shall not; patriots will not let the horses go.
Moreover, at Sainte Menehould, on the route of the Berline, suspicious patriots are wondering what certain lounging dragoons mean; while the Berline arrives not.
The nation has stripped itself of the old vestures; patriots of the type soon to be called Girondins have the problem of governing this naked nation.
Thus had the patriots won in their first trial of arms, and the moral effect of the victory made it certain, henceforth, that the Spaniards would fight to the end.
Many other elements had also become pro-Liberal by this time, including prominent representatives of the middle class, almost all of the patriots who had organized the resistance to the French in 1808, and the young men of education.
A body of Catalan patriots visited England in 1736 to ask for the fulfilment of the earlier English promise to maintain the fueros, but the British government paid no attention to the petition.
The result of a long and hot debate in the Exchange between the Sons of Liberty and the more conservative patriots was an agreement to call a Congress of the Colonies.
The lofty hopes, with which the Celtic patriots had begun the last campaign, had nowhere been fulfilled.
The most vehement agitation seized the length and breadth of the great Celtic land; the patriotseverywhere bestirred themselves.
The Conspiracy of the Patriots The work of repelling the Germanic invasion and of subduing the continental Celts was completed.
The Boston patriots emphasized their arguments in their instructions to their representatives in May.
Without any attempt to conceive or fashion a definition of their ideal, the good common sense of the patriots at last worked out the conclusion that their emancipation from the Parliament involved a dispensing with the king.
In Massachusetts the patriots were seldom without causes of just complaint.
During the previous winter the patriots had learned that the British government was intending to separate the colonies by securing the line of the Hudson.
But his conduct at a time when it was especially important for the patriots to act in concert was a good illustration of the way in which he systematically thwarted Greene.
After reducing this post and subjugating the patriots of the Mohawk valley, he was ordered to join his chief at or near Albany.
His Indian allies were insubordinate, and the patriots swelled the American ranks.
This is supposed to have resulted from the fact that the fire of the Tories, being down-hill, was not so effective as the fire of the patriots in the opposite direction.
The spirits of the patriots began to revive, especially in the back regions, where Colonels Locke and Williams and Generals Rutherford and Sumter gathered strong bands around their standards.
Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests.
On the glory-crowned heights of Bunker Hill the patriots gazed at the rafters of their own burning dwellings in the town of Charlestown, and heard the cannon shots hurled from British ships against the base of the hill.
Let us not forget that as good citizens and good patriots it is our duty always to obey the law and to give it our loyal support and insist that every one else shall do so.
Toward this spot the feet of the reverent patriots of the years to come will bend their way.
Like most irregular troops, the Chinese patriots could not act together in a body, but took to flight, throwing away their spears as soon as a well directed fire was opened upon them.
And once at an assembly of Italian patriots one called wildly for Cavour's secretary, Hartum, and demanded of him to defend his dangerous and treasonable political actions.
Italian patriots and escaped prisoners from the Papal and Neapolitan dungeons found a warm welcome at Pembroke Lodge.
On the night of January 14th some Italian patriots threw three bombs under Napoleon's carriage as he was driving to the Opera.
All the Revolutionary patriots did was to give it a new and more striking wording.
So Dunmore threatened to bombard the city if the patriots cut off supplies, and moved the warships to a position close by.
The American patriots were greatly encouraged by the support they received from many of the ablest men in Great Britain.
If they could have laid hands on Dunmore, the patriots no doubt would have kept him in confinement.
The American patriots now realized that they must act with vigor and firmness or lose all that they held most dear.
When the American patriots of 1775 took up arms because Parliament insisted on taxing them, they were not defending some new principle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patriots" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
