All 7 Uses
mutiny
in
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
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- 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.†
Chpt 1. *
- 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.†
Chpt 8.
- 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.†
Chpt 11.
- 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.†
Chpt 11.
- The steam got knocked out of the mutiny.†
Chpt 11.
- Even at the height of the mutiny, everyone was friends with Cookie, and he had no enemies.†
Chpt 12.
- 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.†
Chpt 15.
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)