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Meanings of whigs in English
British political party.
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Usage of whigs in English
1
The panic among the whigs was tremendous, and the mountaineers shared it.
2
It has been the colony against England, and not tories against whigs.
3
Permitted the whigs in general, and one Walpole in particular, to run England.
4
The whigs represented the dissenters and the mercantile classes, and often wore red.
5
The arrival of the mountain men put new life into the dispirited whigs.
6
The whigs made an excursion for the recovery of the boats.
7
The whigs refused to accept the sacrosanct character of the monarchy.
8
The poor whigs suffered a great deal from the rascals-theydid.
9
Fox represented the whigs, who own all the rest, you know.
10
As for whigs, they're cheats; as for the Poles, they've got no cash.
11
The Covenanters were called whigs; the whins were worthless bushes.
12
He was unquestionably the choice of nearly all the whigs.
13
The whigs are very fond of that sort of thing.
14
They maintained an intimate correspondence with the whigs of England.
15
This performance happened to give less displeasure to the whigs, and was better received.
16
You remember also that our lawyers were then all whigs.
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