Example sentences for: curley

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  • Thomas Curley (Bridgewater State College) uses his Account of Corsica as an example of a travel book in the same genre as Sterne's A Sentimental Journey and Smollett's Travels through France and Italy . It is also a tract on political liberty, and Curley quotes the epigraph from the Corsican rejoinder to a Pope in 1320: “Non enim propter gloriam, divitias aut honores pugnamus, sed propter libertatem solummodo quam nemo bonus nisi simul vita amittit.”

  • In much the same way that Washington's blacks re-elected Barry after his release from prison, Boston's Irish supported their mayor, James Michael Curley, when he went to prison.

  • Curley, like Barry, was a master at playing upon the social resentments of his disadvantaged constituents, doing them a great disservice while proclaiming himself their champion.


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