Genus of birds (hummingbirds)
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Examples for "jacobin "
Examples for "jacobin "
1 An old jacobin , when he heard the news, exclaimed, So much the better!
2 Emperor and king, jacobin and carbonaro, alike cherished him.
3 He was full of the tenets of the Jacobin and Cordelian Clubs.
4 His voice shook with fury, but the Jacobin took it for enthusiasm.
5 He also utterly abhorred the despotism of vulgar, violent, sanguinary Jacobin misrule.
1 Amongst the last was the beautiful blue, green, and white humming-bird ( Florisuga mellivora, Linn.
2 Both it and Florisuga mellivora are short billed, generally catching flying insects, and do not frequent flowers so much as other humming-birds.
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