The Soldiers of the Lafayette Army have, as all Soldiers have, a kind of dim feeling that they themselves are Sansculottes in buff belts; that the victory of the Tenth of August is also a victory for them.
The dull-bright Seigneurs stand biting their thumbs: these Sansculottes seem not to fly like poultry!
The Townhalls made no use of it; even the distracted Sansculottes made little; they only howled and bellowed, but did not bite.
This is the Cannonade of Valmy; wherein the World-Poet experimented on the cannon-fever; wherein the French Sansculottes did not fly like poultry.
On the whole, as Camille Desmoulins says once, "while the Sansculottes fight, the Monsieurs must pay.
Within a few hours the yelling maenads and bold satyrs of the sansculottes possessed the gorgeous Salon de la Paix, whilst the King and his family were on their way to Paris.
The sansculotteshalf rose from their benches, shaking minatory fists, yelling, gesticulating.
The wilder element of the sansculottes grasps the helm of State.
Conspirators, agents of the foreigner,--such were all those sansculottes in red cap and carmagnole and sabots who recklessly outbid the Jacobins in patriotism.
The town was about as defensible as Brighton; and it is not difficult to imagine the feelings which the sansculottes inspired among Evangelical colonists whose last advices from Europe dated from the very height of the Reign of Terror.
We've got all the fair places of the earth, and the sansculottes of Europe will fight us for them, just as the sansculottes of England will fight for a bigger share of profits.
The country, honeycombed with treason, overrun with hungry exiles hastening home to a bed with clean linen, and a well-filled pantry, hailed the ragged sansculottes as the bringers of a new day of light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sansculottes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
