All 6 Uses of
mutiny
in
Treasure Island
- In other words, you fear a mutiny.†
Chpt 9 *
- I never heard of a crew that meant to mutiny but what showed signs before, for any man that had an eye in his head to see the mischief and take steps according.†
Chpt 12
- Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.†
Chpt 13
- The planks, which had not been swabbed since the mutiny, bore the print of many feet, and an empty bottle, broken by the neck, tumbled to and fro like a live thing in the scuppers.†
Chpt 25
- Certainly, since the mutiny began, not a man of them could ever have been sober.†
Chpt 25
- It went to all our hearts, I think, to leave them in that wretched state; but we could not risk another mutiny; and to take them home for the gibbet would have been a cruel sort of kindness.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(mutiny) open rebellion against authority -- especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers