All 17 Uses of
revolution
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Any sort of cliches both revolutionary and patriotic.†
Chpt 13revolutionary = related to or causing dramatic change; of a supporter of the change
- He was very happy with that sudden, rare happiness that can come to any one with a command in a revolutionary arm; the happiness of finding that even one of your flanks holds.†
Chpt 15 *
- Such taxes appear to me to be revolutionary.†
Chpt 16
- 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.†
Chpt 42
- Do we make the revolution to be in an army?†
Chpt 2
- If you have not seen the day of revolution in a small town where all know all in the town and always have known all, you have seen nothing.†
Chpt 10
- It would have been better for the town if they had thrown over twenty or thirty of the drunkards, especially those of the red-and-black scarves, and if we ever have another revolution I believe they should be destroyed at the start.†
Chpt 10
- But surely the big proprietors and the rich will make a revolution against such taxes.†
Chpt 16
- Do we make the revolution in order to say Don Roberto to a comrade?†
Chpt 16
- "For me the revolution is so that all will say Don to all," Fernando said.†
Chpt 16
- They had been active in the 1934 revolution and had to flee the country when it failed and in Russia they had sent them to the military academy and to the Lenin Institute the Comintern maintained so they would be ready to fight the next time and have the necessary military education to command.†
Chpt 18
- In a revolution you could not admit to outsiders who helped you nor that any one knew more than he was supposed to know.†
Chpt 18
- They had fought there with the true comradeship of the revolution.†
Chpt 18
- Are we to win this war and lose the revolution?†
Chpt 23
- But if we do not win this war there will be no revolution nor any Republic nor any thou nor any me nor anything but the most grand carajo.†
Chpt 23
- You do not understand how such a girl would be if there had been no revolution.†
Chpt 24
- There is no need for that under the revolution.†
Chpt 24
Definitions:
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(1)
(revolution as in: the computer revolution) dramatic change -- sometimes violent overthrow of a government
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(2)
(revolution as in: revolution around the sun) circular movement -- sometimes referring to exactly one rotation