bonapartean

Example Sentences

• "That Austria was averse to the dethronement of Bonaparte, there can be no doubt, from her well known political character, and her interest in the continuation of the Bonapartean dynasty."
• "But here I was again mistaken; for Mehevi, in conducting his warlike operations, rather inclined to the Fabian than to the Bonapartean tactics, husbanding his resources and exposing his troops to no unnecessary hazards."
• "Because the historical Bonapartean physiognomy is remarkable for a strong jaw-bone, every prince and princess of the Imperial family, with the exception of the Emperor, assert their Bonapartean blood by protruding their chins and clenchng their teeth, although there are some of them, who, if they followed nature, would allow that portion of their faces to retreat."
• "He takes her back, presumably to a happy marriage, though not to be a Princess: he is able to act on his own account because in some Bonapartean reshuffle of territory he has lost his Principality."
• "It would be easy to extend the list of words that might be demonstrated, by means of the Bonapartean versions, to possess exclusively Northumbrian characteristics, from the lists about to be given (from which about thirty more words could be tested in the same manner and with the same results as the preceding five words have exhibited); but to repeat the same process so often over would only be tedious."
• "Hence, whatever may be though of the palaeotypic equivalents afterwards added, each vowel can be immediately identified as B1, B2, etc., B indicating Bonapartean, and thus referred to in any English or foreign treatise."