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Reign of Terror
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    And that Invisible Man, Kemp, must now establish a Reign of Terror.  (source)
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    She had not been in Paris for some months; the horrors and bloodshed of the Reign of Terror, culminating in the September massacres, had only come across the Channel to her as a faint echo.  (source)
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    There was a lowering energy in her face as she stood looking at me while I explained the impossibility of my engaging her (without thinking it necessary to say how very little I desired to do so), which seemed to bring visibly before me some woman from the streets of Paris in the reign of terror.  (source)
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    In France the Reign of Terror commenced, a siege of vicious retribution that would send nearly 3,000 men and women to the guillotine in Paris alone, while in the provinces the slaughter was even more savage.  (source)
    Reign of Terror = the ten-month period during the French Revolution when thousands were formally executed (1793-94)
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    What this folk needed, then, was a Reign of Terror and a guillotine, and I was the wrong man for them.  (source)
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    "Ah," said the Marquise de Saint-Meran, a woman with a stern, forbidding eye, though still noble and distinguished in appearance, despite her fifty years—"ah, these revolutionists, who have driven us from those very possessions they afterwards purchased for a mere trifle during the Reign of Terror, would be compelled to own, were they here, that all true devotion was on our side, since we were content to follow the fortunes of a falling monarch, while they, on the contrary, made their fortune by worshipping the rising sun;"  (source)
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    The women who drove the carts usually spent their day on the Place de la Greve, beneath the platform of the guillotine, knitting and gossiping, whilst they watched the rows of tumbrils arriving with the victims the Reign of Terror claimed every day.  (source)
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    A Reign of Terror.  (source)
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    "'Tis true, madame," answered he, "that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king's death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished."  (source)
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    He stood somewhat isolated: the envoy of the Revolutionary Government of France was not likely to be very popular in England, at a time when the news of the awful September massacres, and of the Reign of Terror and Anarchy, had just begun to filtrate across the Channel.  (source)
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    He firmly believed that the French aristocrat was the most bitter enemy of France; he would have wished to see every one of them annihilated: he was one of those who, during this awful Reign of Terror, had been the first to utter the historic and ferocious desire "that aristocrats might have but one head between them, so that it might be cut off with a single stroke of the guillotine."  (source)
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    Armand, whose connection with the Scarlet Pimpernel and disavowal of the brutal policy of the Reign of Terror was still unknown to his countryman, had left England a little more than a week ago, carrying with him the necessary instructions, which would enable him to meet the other fugitives and to convey them to this place of safety.  (source)
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    At Omori, the reign of terror was over.  (source)
    reign of terror = time period where people were terrified
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    This was followed by the reign of terror that shaped the lives of people of color following the collapse of Reconstruction until World War II.  (source)
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    To challenge how power is held in America meant facing a reign of terror, some of which I witnessed over the years, most of which failed to reach "mainstream" America — although this is changing.  (source)
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    It was the beginning of a reign of terror to the colored population.  (source)
    reign of terror = time period where people were terrified
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    Those who came from wizarding families had grown up hearing the names of these Death Eaters spoken with almost as much fear as Voldemort's; the crimes they had committed during the days of Voldemort's reign of terror were legendary.  (source)
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    Nothing can be done to end his reign of terror.  (source)
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    The first years following the Russian invasion could not yet be characterized as a reign of terror.  (source)
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    The reign of terror within the warlord tribe continued.  (source)
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    RABID DOG KILLS 4 IN BIZARRE THREE-DAY REIGN OF TERROR, the headline on that evening's edition of the Portland Evening Express blared.  (source)
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    Just prior to his death when he was awarded a special pension by Congress for his service in the Civil War, the press and the country took the opportunity to pay tribute to his fidelity to principle in a trying hour and his courage in saving his government from a devastating reign of terror.  (source)
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    It's not like a bunch of angry kids with pitchforks and torches was going to end Itex's reign of terror.  (source)
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    My reign of terror continues.  (source)
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    So far as this is possible, he is at ease under a reign of terror.  (source)
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