All 18 Uses
mutiny
in
Billy Budd
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- The latter is known, and without exaggeration in the epithet, as the Great Mutiny.†
Chpt 3
- To the British Empire the Nore Mutiny was what a strike in the fire-brigade would be to London threatened by general arson.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.†
Chpt 5
- 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.†
Chpt 5
- 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.†
Chpt 6
- "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.†
Chpt 18
- To resist him would be mutiny.
Chpt 20 *mutiny = open rebellion against authority
- 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.†
Chpt 21
- But surely Budd purposed neither mutiny nor homicide.†
Chpt 21
- We proceed under the law of the Mutiny Act.†
Chpt 21
- And the Mutiny Act, War's child, takes after the father.†
Chpt 21
- 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.†
Chpt 21
- 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.†
Chpt 21
- The word mutiny was not named in what he said.†
Chpt 23
- How it fared with the Handsome Sailor during the year of the Great Mutiny has been faithfully given.†
Chpt 28
- 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.†
Chpt 30
Definitions:
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(1)
(mutiny) open rebellion against authority -- especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)