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Promptly defeated, it still continued to think independently, and struggle, as best it might, for freedom of administration; and although from the time of Pompey to that of Louis XIV it has had an ineradicable tendency to stand against the government, it has survived the results of all its contumacies, its plagues, wars, and sieges, and the destructiveness of its phase of the

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

"A Nuremberger Tand" (Nuremberg plaything -- wooden image, such as they make at Nuremberg), said they, grinning, in a thick-skinned way: "If it rained Burggraves all the year round, none of them would come to luck in this country;" and continued their feuds, toll-levyings, plunderings, and other contumacies.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

I have more difficulty writing on fundamentalism for a language journal than I had in writing on it for religious periodicals whose readers, whatever their theological slant, would know what the contentions and contumacies are about.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2 1991

"The abbot has, himself, a somewhat warlike disposition, which is not to be wondered at, seeing that he comes from a family ever ready to draw the sword; and he has, therefore, a liking for Friar Roger, in spite of his contumacies, breaches of regulations, and quarrels with the other monks.

Both Sides the Border A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower Ralph Peacock 1867