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Report at the time was brought home that the soidisant Talbot, fighting his battles under the name of Chichester, had been seen and noted in the gambling-houses of Paris; that he had been forcibly extruded from some such chamber for non-payment of a gambling debt; that he had made one in a violent fracas which had subsequently taken place in the French streets; and that his body had afterwards been identified in the Morgue.

Castle Richmond 2004

It is a burning shame that instead of making that country prosperous and its people industrious and happy, the soidisant, aristocrats and educated people of Hayti should pay attention to mean and low party dissensions.

The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa 1873

Report at the time was brought home that the soidisant Talbot, fighting his battles under the name of Chichester, had been seen and noted in the gambling-houses of Paris; that he had been forcibly extruded from some such chamber for non-payment of a gambling debt; that he had made one in a violent fracas which had subsequently taken place in the French streets; and that his body had afterwards been identified in the Morgue.

Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848

She told me that she was only residing with her parents during her husband's absence; for she was (it seems) the soidisant wife of an English merchant in Kingston, and had a house on Tachy's Bridge.

Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

-- We hear that the troop under Baron Spinachi has been surrounded, and utterly routed, by General Count Hogginarmo, and the soidisant Princess is sent a prisoner to the capital.

The Rose and the Ring William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

The changes made in the constitution of the kingdom are laid to the charge of the _soidisant_ factious.

History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829

In this _soidisant_ balance of power there is always a controlling weight; equilibrium is a chimera.

History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829

You can judge if the soidisant philosophers of the eighteenth century have any eminent share of these requisites.

The Enchantress; or, Where Shall I Find Her? A Tale 1801

To this, soidisant Iran experts and latter-day Walter Durantys explain that it is merely Mr. Khamenei's opening gambit in what promises to be a glorious new chapter in Iranian-U. S. relations.

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