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Bozzaris

American  
[boh-zar-is, -zahr-] / boʊˈzær ɪs, -ˈzɑr- /

noun

  1. Marco 1788?–1823, Greek patriot.


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Returning from a ramble round the walls, we noticed a large square house, which, our 23guide told us, was the residence of Constantine, the brother of Marco Bozzaris.

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens

He was Fitz-Greene Halleck; and, seated on the porch of the Jumel house, he wrote a poem that a million schoolboys were soon to spout—"Marco Bozzaris."

From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune

Could we ever forget the afternoon he stood up before the minister and the assembled population and roared "Marco Bozzaris" until we were sure the sultan was quaking in his seraglio?

From The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Martin Field

No one of his poems is better known than "Marco Bozzaris."

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

On his martial poem, Marco Bozzaris, published in 1827, his fame principally rests, although he has written other pieces of great merit.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard

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