Sentence:  Lined up solidly with the <WSD>Pimpernels</WSD> and with the persecuted. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Someone resembling the fictional (Scarlet Pimpernel); a gallant dashing resourceful man given to remarkable feats of bravery and derring-do in liberating victims of tyranny and injustice. (from 20th c.)