mutinyin a sentence
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The tank battalion's mutiny was put down; though some of the leaders escaped.
mutiny = rebellion against authority
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The largest mutiny in modern military history occurred during the first world war when an estimated 40,000 French soldiers, probably wisely, ignored the command to advance on German troops entrenched in hilltop positions.
mutiny = open rebellion against authority
- On September 10, mutiny broke out among the Pennsylvania riflemen, after several of the worst troublemakers had been confined to the guardhouse. (source)
- We're talking about mutiny. (source)
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Snape seemed to be facing a constant, low level of mutiny from a hard core of students.
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mutiny = rebellion against authority
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All the same, they have nothing to do with mutiny or lead-swinging.
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mutiny = open rebellion against authority
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…and when Mr. Phillips gave Mark Antony's oration over the dead body of Caesar in the most heart-stirring tones—looking at Prissy Andrews at the end of every sentence—Anne felt that she could rise and mutiny on the spot if but one Roman citizen led the way.
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mutiny = participate in open rebellion against authority
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Pike, who had been trembling abjectly, took heart at this open mutiny, and sprang upon his overthrown leader.
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mutiny = rebellion against authority
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To resist him would be mutiny.
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mutiny = open rebellion against authority
- She watched the winds stir mutiny in the dust, whipping it into violent spirals that ripped through the courtyard.† (source)
- He knew that meant their mutiny had been short-lived, all three of them subdued in less than a minute.† (source)
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- Piper usually hated the smell of cooking meat, but her stomach rumbled like it wanted to mutiny.† (source)
- In Mutiny on the Bounty, when people died at sea, they were wrapped in white sheets and thrown overboard with millstones around their necks so that the corpses wouldn't float.† (source)
- Flint ready to mutiny.† (source)
- Mutiny.† (source)
- Not in the final simulation of the great Coal Sack Battle where General Horace Glennon-Height's mutiny was defeated.† (source)
- Have you ever heard the term 'white mutiny'?† (source)
- "I don't know, Captain Seivarden," Captain Vel was saying, "if you've heard about the mutiny at Ime.† (source)
- Thomas Hickey, you have been court-martialed and found guilty of the capital crimes of mutiny and sedition, of holding a treacherous correspondence with, and receiving pay from, the enemy for the most horrid and detestable purposes, and you have been sentenced to hang from the neck until dead.† (source)
- I became furious at their mutiny, swore, Yelled at the team, then stomped forward, grabbed Cookie by the back of her harness and half-pulled.† (source)
- The other day some of the men were actually talking mutiny.† (source)
- Mr. President, most mutinies are led by officers, not enlisted men.† (source)
- I briefly considered mutiny.† (source)
- Little was known about him—only that he'd been in Buchenwald, where he'd worked with the underground and smuggled in arms for the mutiny; and how the Germans had punished him by tying his wrists behind his back, hanging him up by them, and whipping him.† (source)
- They were angry with the Chinese crews, and on the third day, my father said that mutiny charges had been placed against them.† (source)
- I had Billy Budd, Martin Eden, Treasure Island, Heart of Darkness, The Odyssey, Robinson Crusoe, and the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy.† (source)
- As he sat waiting for Edric to give the command to start forward, Roran thought of Nasuada and Katrina and Eragon, and a cloud of dread shadowed his thoughts as he wondered how they would react when they learned of his mutiny.† (source)
- It always broke at least once each day, causing a minor mutiny.† (source)
- On September 30, just three days after his speech in Miami, Haitian soldiers mutinied and opened fire on his home.† (source)
- Cal thought there was mutiny, as well as frustration on her face.† (source)
- He knew every hymn in The Antique and Contemporary Hymn Book, and sang his way through them loudly and joyously when he was on watch, which had been one of the reasons for the mutiny.† (source)
- Spreading dissension and inciting to mutiny.† (source)
- They were always showing Columbus discovering America, having one helluva time getting old Ferdinand and Isabella to lend him the dough to buy ships with, and then the sailors mutinying on him and all.† (source)
- Emma and Henry had faced a small mutiny earlier that morning, complete with tears and screams, because their kids couldn't understand why they weren't invited.† (source)
- A mutiny is in progress at the East Wing when I return.† (source)
- It was the black miscreants who perpetrated mutiny, murder, and the repeated torture of my clients during a harrowing voyage of more than eight weeks.† (source)
- Good thing you let them swim or you'd have a full-scale mutiny.† (source)
- "If anyone proposes another match race between these two super horses," wrote a reporter after the race, "henceforth, he will be tried in the morning for treason, mutiny, mopery and non compos mentis."† (source)
- Mutiny not hushed up perfectly; Stu hired good men.† (source)
- But when he tried to get up, his body mutinied against movement.† (source)
- Their speed was assured and their mutiny avoided by a stratagem invented by the lieutenant Alessandro had petitioned in vain.† (source)
- It wasn't exactly mutiny, not quite, but it was close.† (source)
- If he'd liked to tell what he knew one of the men would have been strung up for mutiny on the high seas, and two of the girls for murder.† (source)
- One slumped to the ground, more exhaustion than mutiny.† (source)
- We've issued administrative punishments for malingering, but this is more like mutiny.† (source)
- They came from a warrior tribe who had served the Arabs as slave-hunters in the region, and had later, with one or two nasty mutinies, served the colonial government as soldiers.† (source)
- We were having a mutiny.† (source)
- Then I went around to every boy in the class, milked his rat, explained the physics of the maneuver, and how I was going to use it to break up fights, rebellions, or mutinies in the class.† (source)
- "Your Majesty, your Majesty," he said, "are you going to tolerate this mutiny, this poltroonery?† (source)
- De Santis verged on mutiny, then touched a button.† (source)
- And she'll leave out the mutiny part? (source)
- Oh, you mean the Hermes mutiny? (source)
- The Hermes Mutiny. (source)
- What mutiny? (source)
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With the covert mutiny of Buck, a general insubordination sprang up and increased.
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mutiny = rebellion against authority
- It was the summary fate of any soldier who refused an order, let alone mutinied.† (source)
- The political officer aboard, Valery Sablin, led a mutiny of the enlisted personnel.† (source)
- On the other hand, he didn't want to incite a mutiny on his own sub.† (source)
- "Judge, we are not dealing with mutiny or piracy," Foster noted.† (source)
- Mutiny is when the crew rebels against lawful authority.† (source)
- You heard Ryan—that frigate's mutiny was led by the political officer.† (source)
- They'll never be able to live with what they've done, but they can't mutiny.† (source)
- Our military is half in mutiny and half pinned down by fire.† (source)
- Even at the height of the mutiny, everyone was friends with Cookie, and he had no enemies.† (source)
- We are only entertaining the issues of mutiny, murder, and property.† (source)
- Necessarily, I agree, but at some point we're going to face real mutiny.† (source)
- And by leading the mutiny, this man followed his destiny.† (source)
- The steam got knocked out of the mutiny.† (source)
- He sat up straight, and, for a few brief moments, he appeared merely thoughtful, like a captain informed of imminent mutiny taking his time to ponder his next move.† (source)
- By the time we arrived at Hyperion, General Horace Glennon-Height was dead, his brief but brutal mutiny already crushed, but there was no turning back.† (source)
- The Rrrrrr handed over the unit leader, the one who'd started the mutiny, in exchange for immunity for the others.† (source)
- Instead I had to negotiate for their return, or else let them stand as an invitation to further mutiny.† (source)
- She was talking about events at Ime, about the soldier who had refused her order, led that mutiny five years before.† (source)
- The point is, it was mutiny.† (source)
- If so, those not party to the mutiny—barratry, whatever—will want to return home after it's all over.† (source)
- Mutiny winked at, but one can't make a plain statement of fact about the dangers of promoting the ill-bred and vulgar to positions of authority, or policies that encourage the most vile sort of behavior, and even undermine everything civilization has always stood for, without losing business contacts or promotions.† (source)
- And led a mutiny.† (source)
- The idea had almost caused a mutiny.† (source)
- Elinor, Angela, and the twins had tired of both the photo shoot and Mallory's bossiness and were on the verge of some sort of fashion mutiny, the house was a wreck, and Owen's mom-apparently a bit of a neat freak-was due home at any moment.† (source)
- Though the mutiny was put down at once by General Greene and a large detachment of Rhode Island troops, it only added to the sense of an army coming apart, and Washington was visibly shaken.† (source)
- What happened was that the enlistment of the old Second ran out and they were all sent home except one hundred and twenty, which had foolishly signed three-year papers, and so they all had one year to go, only they all thought they was signing to fight with the Second, and Second only, and so they mutinied.† (source)
- Was a quick mutiny, quickly subdued, in Peace Dragoons regiment from which our late oppressors had come, one started by rumor that they were to be shipped to Moon.† (source)
- Ninety plus eighteen men can't search a hundred kilometers of catapult in hours, especially when ninety are Peace Dragoons not used to p-suit work and hating it—this midnight came at new earth with Sun high; they were outside far longer than is healthy, managed to cook up their own accidents while almost cooking themselves, and showed nearest thing to mutiny in regiment's history.† (source)
- In an army wracked by mutiny, conversations such as these were nothing more than coded sedition, and if the officer didn't understand the code, all the more reason to stop it.† (source)
- My sailors are about to mutiny.† (source)
- Singbe went on to tell of the mutiny, and that, yes, they had killed the captain and crew, but that it was in self-defense.† (source)
- It was only a few weeks since she'd heard them before, at the funeral of Cabin Boy Scatterling, who had been killed in the mutiny.† (source)
- Their alleged actions of mutiny were committed in a desire to win back their liberty and return home.† (source)
- Fortunately she did not have to find out, because Captain Roberts ended the mutiny by detaching one of the Sweet Judy's swivel guns and aiming it at the mutineers.† (source)
- As such, I can render little because the proper answering of the questions of property brought here are clouded by claims of murder and mutiny.† (source)
- She told them about First Mate Cox, and the mutiny and the man in the canoe......who had been brown and, like Mrs. Gurgle, looked as if he'd been made out of old leather.† (source)
- He pointed out how the "rescuing" of the Amistad, whether from pirates, a mutiny, or damage due to weather and malevolent seas, was covered under Articles 8, 9, and 10 of Pickney's Treaty.† (source)
- And then she told him everything else—about the way the moon shone over the lagoon, and how bright the stars were, and the mutiny, and poor Captain Roberts, and the parrot, and the red crabs, and the pantaloon birds, and the tree-climbing octopi and First Mate Cox, while the gods looked down.† (source)
- He questioned the government's warrant for the arrest of the blacks as runaway slaves guilty of mutiny and murder based solely on the testimony of two slave owners.† (source)
- A writ of habeas corpus would only be an invitation for them to flee prosecution for their crimes of mutiny, murder, and thievery, prosecution for which should rightly take place back in Havana.† (source)
- Granting a writ of habeas corpus would be denying rightful justice, as well as opening the door for mass escape, a course the slaves certainly would pursue in light of their previous actions of murder and mutiny.† (source)
- In the second part, however, I rule that I will not order extradition to Cuba of the negroes participating in the mutiny, since, as stated, these men were trying to wrest themselves from illegal bondage and thus in the eyes of this court, acting in self-defense.† (source)
- Its commander, Lieutenant Thomas Gedney, had listened to the well-spoken Spaniard, Pepe Ruiz, tell his teary-eyed tale about how the cargo of slaves had mutinied and murdered the captain and crew.† (source)
- He had also dealt with Stenka Razin soldiers, who had started an uprising in the town of Turkatui and gone over to the Whites, and with the mutiny at Chirkin Us, where a loyal commander had been killed.† (source)
- When he got as far as Taos, his Irish driver mutinied.† (source)
- Apparently Rex Mottram has made the place a nest of party mutiny.† (source)
- Rinaldi said that the French had mutinied and troops marched on Paris.† (source)
- They have been forced to quell the mutinies with automatic rifle and machine-gun fire.† (source)
- What are you up to inciting mutiny and insubordination?† (source)
- It was in the year of your Indian Mutiny.† (source)
- There doesn't have to be any goddam mutiny, does there?† (source)
- He had really been a chief yeoman at the time of the mutiny.† (source)
- When the Bishop, unable to compose their differences, supported the new priest, Father Martínez and his friend Father Lucero, of Arroyo Hondo, mutinied; flatly refused to submit, and organized a church of their own.† (source)
- He recognized his bushy eyebrows, his watery gray eyes, his chin and the double chin under it, and he knew him for one of France's great modern revolutionary figures who had led the mutiny of the French Navy in the Black Sea.† (source)
- They jibbed, ran away, sneaked off with their loads in the night—quite a mutiny.† (source)
- Nevertheless her mind mutinied and revolted.† (source)
- Juanita Haydock led the mutiny: "Look here, Carol, don't be so bossy.† (source)
- Mutiny was effectually laid to rest for the moment.† (source)
- I might equal him if there was another mutiny.† (source)
- How it fared with the Handsome Sailor during the year of the Great Mutiny has been faithfully given.† (source)
- Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.† (source)
- And the Mutiny Act, War's child, takes after the father.† (source)
- My mother's father was also a poet, and fought against you in the Mutiny.† (source)
- Certainly, since the mutiny began, not a man of them could ever have been sober.† (source)
- The word mutiny was not named in what he said.† (source)
- But surely Budd purposed neither mutiny nor homicide.† (source)
- The latter is known, and without exaggeration in the epithet, as the Great Mutiny.† (source)
- We proceed under the law of the Mutiny Act.† (source)
- Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.† (source)
- Still, no sign of mutiny reappeared among the rest.† (source)
- Still she shall have fair play, though disobedience is the next crime to mutiny.† (source)
- Why, it's a regular mutiny, with barricades!† (source)
- I am in open mutiny against the Professor, who vouchsafes no answer.† (source)
- It is mutiny—seizing the transport of one's own army.† (source)
- She had dreamed of the possibility of a popular mutiny to tear her from her asylum.† (source)
- I mentioned in my last letter the fears I entertained of a mutiny.† (source)
- He confronted savages on tropical shores, quelled mutinies on the high seas, and in a small boat upon the ocean kept up the hearts of despairing men—always an example of devotion to duty, and as unflinching as a hero in a book.† (source)
- We will mutiny!† (source)
- For at the mention of India, or even Ceylon, her eyes (only one was glass) slowly deepened, became blue, beheld, not human beings—she had no tender memories, no proud illusions about Viceroys, Generals, Mutinies—it was orchids she saw, and mountain passes and herself carried on the backs of coolies in the 'sixties over solitary peaks; or descending to uproot orchids (startling blossoms, never beheld before) which she painted in water-colour; an indomitable Englishwoman, fretful if disturbed by the War, say, which dropped a bomb at her very door, from her deep meditation over orchids and her own figure journeying in the 'sixties in India—but here was Peter.† (source)
- Even the crews of the torpedo-boats and destroyers that had brought their quick-firers up the Thames refused to stop, mutinied, and went down again.† (source)
- Read any of the Mutiny records; which, rather than the Bhagavad Gita, should be your Bible in this country.† (source)
- In other words, you fear a mutiny.† (source)
- It was really very wrong of me, because, though my chief mate was an excellent man all round, he was the victim of such black imaginings that if he did not get a letter from his wife at the expected time he would go quite distracted with rage and jealousy, lose all grip on the work, quarrel with all hands, and either weep in his cabin or develop such a ferocity of temper as all but drove the crew to the verge of mutiny.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- To the British Empire the Nore Mutiny was what a strike in the fire-brigade would be to London threatened by general arson.† (source)
- No, to the people the Foretopman's deed, however it be worded in the announcement, will be plain homicide committed in a flagrant act of mutiny.† (source)
- To some extent the Nore Mutiny may be regarded as analogous to the distempering irruption of contagious fever in a frame constitutionally sound, and which anon throws it off.† (source)
- Next it was asked of him whether he knew of or suspected aught savoring of incipient trouble (meaning mutiny, tho' the explicit term was avoided) going on in any section of the ship's company.† (source)
- But on board the seventy-four in which Billy now swung his hammock, very little in the manner of the men and nothing obvious in the demeanour of the officers would have suggested to an ordinary observer that the Great Mutiny was a recent event.† (source)
- "Never mind that!" here peremptorily broke in the superior, his face altering with anger, instinctively divining the ship that the other was about to name, one in which the Nore Mutiny had assumed a singularly tragical character that for a time jeopardized the life of its commander.† (source)
- Like some other events in every age befalling states everywhere, including America, the Great Mutiny was of such character that national pride along with views of policy would fain shade it off into the historical background.† (source)
- Ignorant tho' they were of the secret facts of the tragedy, and not thinking but that the penalty was somehow unavoidably inflicted from the naval point of view, for all that they instinctively felt that Billy was a sort of man as incapable of mutiny as of wilfull murder.† (source)
- One instance of such apprehensions: In the same year with this story, Nelson, then Vice-Admiral Sir Horatio, being with the fleet off the Spanish coast, was directed by the Admiral in command to shift his pennant from the Captain to the Theseus; and for this reason: that the latter ship having newly arrived on the station from home where it had taken part in the Great Mutiny, danger was apprehended from the temper of the men; and it was thought that an officer like Nelson was the one, not indeed to terrorize the crew into base subjection, but to win them, by force of his mere presence, back to an allegiance if not as enthusiastic as his own, yet as true.† (source)
- Not unlikely they were brought to something more or less akin to that harassed frame of mind which in the year 1842 actuated the Commander of the U.S. brig-of-war Somers to resolve, under the so-called Articles of War, Articles modelled upon the English Mutiny Act, to resolve upon the execution at sea of a midshipman and two petty-officers as mutineers designing the seizure of the brig.† (source)
- It doubled itself up the wrong way over Mrs. Pocket's arm, exhibited a pair of knitted shoes and dimpled ankles to the company in lieu of its soft face, and was carried out in the highest state of mutiny.† (source)
- You glowed in the cool moonlight last night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my equal.† (source)
- I'm unwilling to say that there was mutiny on board, but after a reasonable period of intransigence, Commander Farragut, like Christopher Columbus before him, asked for a grace period of just three days more.† (source)
- These feelings are transitory; each day of expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair.† (source)
- They are unable to serve as well as a white crew, and apprehensions would always be entertained of their mutinying in the middle of the ocean, or of their escaping in the foreign countries at which they might touch.† (source)
- The city, notwithstanding the incredible perseverance of its mayor, had attempted a sort of mutiny for a surrender; the mayor had hanged the mutineers.† (source)
- The greater part of these privileges, it may be noted in passing, and there were some even better than the above, had been extorted from the kings by revolts and mutinies.† (source)
- You had better tell us at once, that that fellow Slackbridge is not in the town, stirring up the people to mutiny; and that he is not a regular qualified leader of the people: that is, a most confounded scoundrel.† (source)
- It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment.† (source)
- The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather OUT of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.† (source)
- Mutiny!† (source)
- The driver, as a Lucknow man, was pleased with the compliment, and told Kim many astounding things where an English guide would have talked of the Mutiny.† (source)
- Steelkilt leaped on the barricade, and striding up and down there, defied the worst the pistols could do; but gave the captain to understand distinctly, that his (Steelkilt's) death would be the signal for a murderous mutiny on the part of all hands.† (source)
- I'll get admitted there, and I'll stir up mutiny; and you, three-tailed bashaw as you are, sir, shall in a trice find yourself fettered amongst our hands: nor will I, for one, consent to cut your bonds till you have signed a charter, the most liberal that despot ever yet conferred.† (source)
- Next morning the priest was in a very bad temper, but the lama was quite happy; and Kim had enjoyed a most interesting evening with the old man, who brought out his cavalry sabre and, balancing it on his dry knees, told tales of the Mutiny and young captains thirty years in their graves, till Kim dropped off to sleep.† (source)
- At sunrise he summoned all hands; and separating those who had rebelled from those who had taken no part in the mutiny, he told the former that he had a good mind to flog them all round—thought, upon the whole, he would do so—he ought to—justice demanded it; but for the present, considering their timely surrender, he would let them go with a reprimand, which he accordingly administered in the vernacular.† (source)
- The question here is of a mutiny.† (source)
- Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be.† (source)
- They may scorn cash now; but let some months go by, and no prospective promise of it to them, and then this same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would soon cashier Ahab.† (source)
- Au reste, we all know them: danger of bad example to innocence of childhood; distractions and consequent neglect of duty on the part of the attached — mutual alliance and reliance; confidence thence resulting — insolence accompanying — mutiny and general blow-up.† (source)
- I have always faithfully observed the one, up to the very moment of bursting, sometimes with volcanic vehemence, into the other; and as neither present circumstances warranted, nor my present mood inclined me to mutiny, I observed careful obedience to St. John's directions; and in ten minutes I was treading the wild track of the glen, side by side with him.† (source)
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Here, quite confounded with this mutiny.
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mutiny = open rebellion
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O masters, if I were disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
I should do Brutus wrong and Cassius wrong,
Who, you all know, are honourable men: (source)mutiny = rebellion
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Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up
To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
They that have done this deed are honourable: (source)
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Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue
In every wound of Caesar, that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. (source)
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We'll mutiny.
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mutiny = rebel (have a violent rebellion)
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But Eurylochus waded in at once—with mutiny on his mind:
'You're a hard man, Odysseus.† (source)
- As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the king's enemies, impersonation, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated murder.† (source)
- It may well be; There is a mutiny in 's mind.† (source)
- said I. He answered In their huts; for they lay separate from us, Sir, since the last mutiny.† (source)
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—God shall mend my soul,
You'll make a mutiny among my guests!† (source)
- Sir, he is rash, and very sudden in choler, and haply with his truncheon may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny, whose qualification shall come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Cassio.† (source)
- And by these, and such other Institutions, they obtayned in order to their end, (which was the peace of the Commonwealth,) that the common people in their misfortunes, laying the fault on neglect, or errour in their Ceremonies, or on their own disobedience to the lawes, were the lesse apt to mutiny against their Governors.† (source)
- Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep: methought I lay Worse than the mutinies in the bilboes.† (source)
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Nor was his ear less pealed
With noises loud and ruinous (to compare
Great things with small) than when Bellona storms
With all her battering engines, bent to rase
Some capital city; or less than if this frame
Of Heaven were falling, and these elements
In mutiny had from her axle torn
The steadfast Earth.† (source)
- Go, let her, if she will, Appeal to Zeus the God of Kindred, for If thus I nurse rebellion in my house, Shall not I foster mutiny without?† (source)
- 1 A writer in a Pennsylvania paper, under the signature of TAMONY, has asserted that the king of Great Britain owes his prerogative as commander-in-chief to an annual mutiny bill.† (source)
- These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.† (source)
- —O, I follow'd that I blush to look upon: My very hairs do mutiny; for the white Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them For fear and doting.† (source)
- Our court, you know, is haunted With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain; One who the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish like enchanting harmony; A man of complements, whom right and wrong Have chose as umpire of their mutiny: This child of fancy, that Armado hight, For interim to our studies shall relate, In high-born words, the worth of many a knight From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate.† (source)
- This is it, Adam, that grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude; I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it.† (source)
- I'll not meddle with it,—it makes a man coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbour's wife, but it detects him: 'tis a blushing shamefaced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills a man full of obstacles: it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it: it is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavours to trust to himself and live without it.† (source)
- If any town should engage in rebellion or mutiny, fall into violent factions, or refuse to pay the usual tribute, the king has two methods of reducing them to obedience.† (source)
- Lastly, the question of the Authority of Aaron, by occasion of his and Miriams mutiny against Moses, was (Numbers 12.)† (source)
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Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.† (source)
- He also told me there were two enormous villains among them, that were the authors of this mutiny, who, if they were killed or seized, might induce the rest to return to their obedience.† (source)
- go out and cry a mutiny.† (source)
- When this was over, we began to consider about regaining the ship: he said, that there were twenty-six hands on board, who knowing their lives were forfeited by the law, for conspiracy and mutiny, were so very hardened, that it would be dangerous for our small company to attack them.† (source)
- This insulent message much surprised me; yet I gave him no answer to it, but went directly and acquainted the supercargo, entreating him to go on board, and, by acquainting the Captain with it, prevent the mutiny which I perceived would happen.† (source)
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