Cromwell

Speech parts

1. Cromwell - Noun

2. Cromwell - Proper noun

Meaning

English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)

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Examples

Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little Tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Thomas Gray

I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes him And will salute him forever. Morrissey

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell. Antonia Fraser

They condemn him [Adolf Hitler] for persecuting the Jews, but he has not shown half the ferocity which Cromwell showed towards the Irish Catholics-as for instance, in the siege of the fortress of Drogheda and the burning alive of its inmates. David Lloyd George

For being a man worth any thousand men, the response your Knox, your Cromwell gets, is an argument for two centuries whether he was a man at all. God's greatest gift to this Earth is sneeringly flung away. Thomas Carlyle

Oliver Cromwell can kiss my singing emerald scrotum! Stephen Colbert

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