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She kept a-raging right along, running her insurrection all by herself, and everybody else mighty meek and quiet; and at last Uncle Silas, looking kind of foolish, fishes up that spoon out of his pocket. (source)insurrection = organized opposition to authority
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The Federalist No. 10: The Utility of the Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (continued). (source)
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He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, (source)
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My insurrection prompted a great deal of yelling.† (source)
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To my left are the Allegiant, Marcus, and the insurrection plan.† (source)
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Revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence in which one class overthrows another.† (source)
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That insurrection is called the Battle of the Camel, because Aisha commanded her troops by riding among them on a camel.† (source)insurrection = organized opposition to authority
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All she knew about him was that Jeremiah de Saint-Amour was a cripple on crutches whom she had never seen, that he had escaped the firing squad during one of many insurrections on one of many islands in the Antilles, that he had become a photographer of children out of necessity and had become the most successful one in the province, and that he had won a game of chess from someone she remembered as Torremolinos but in reality was named Capablanca.† (source)
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— John Paul Jones, September 14, 1775; excerpts from a letter to the naval committee of the N. A. insurrectionists.† (source)
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It sent the most insurrectionary tune into the world that was ever composed.† (source)
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"I would go," I said, answering Thalia, looking at Mama, taking satisfaction in playing the insurrectionist that Mama thought I was.† (source)
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Theirs was not a football team to be beaten but an insurrection to be put down.† (source)
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Here too he touched upon real estate, circuses, pleasures, insurrections and antiques.† (source)
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When I read that I thought, 'Oh, my God, he's going down there to fight for the insurrectionists.† (source)
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The only great pleasure such a restriction suggested was the pleasure of breaking it, and Tom began to meditate an insurrectionary visit to the pond, about a field's length beyond the garden.† (source)
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Ironically, with his insurrection Valentine made the Accords possible.† (source)
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