Use mob in a sentence
Sentences ending with mob
- And what do you mean when you say you were in that mob? [9]
- The sun rose upon wrecked and smoking buildings, and upon mutilated corpses lying here, there, and yonder about the streets, just as they fell, and stripped naked by thieves, the unholy gleaners after the mob. [5]
- Father asked you to marry me, the day you took Mr. Stewart from the mob. [9]
- It was dreadful to be kept fast with the young people in such a mob. [10]
- Should we deliver these heirlooms to the mob? [9]
- British soldiers took the place of the bloodthirsty mob. [11]
- The gates of the Palace closed on the last of Pango Dooni's men, and with a wild cry they rode like a monstrous wave upon the rebel mob. [11]
- Crozier looked at the other thoughtfully for a moment, then he said: "I don't know what you said to Deely, but I do know that I'm going to the Logan Trial in spite of the M'Mahon mob. [11]
- Helena, Gorgias, and the old philosopher Euphranor, had approached her, and when the latter asked with loving reproach, "Why, Barine, how did you get through the howling mob? [10]
- Public opinion in the old democratic sense is a myth; it must be made by strong individuals who recognize and represent evolutionary needs, otherwise it's at the mercy of demagogues who play fast and loose with the prejudice and ignorance of the mob. [9]
Short sentences using mob
- Not democracy, mob rule--certainly. [9]
- The mob was getting impatient. [5]
- The mob shouted and pushed. [9]
Sentences containing mob two or more times
- This is disturbed sometimes for a little while: a mob assembles to protest against something; it gets noisy --noisier--still noisier--finally too noisy; then the persuasive soldiery comes charging down upon it, and in a few minutes all is quiet again, and there is no mob. [5]
More example sentences with the word mob in them
- I only made your acquaintance after I had rescued you, and I opposed the mob, not for the sake of any particular man, but for that of law and order. [10]
- The mob was with the preacher; it had been beguiled for a moment, but only that; it would soon return. [5]
- Other voices mingled with hers--lamenting, cursing, and entreating; for now the rainclouds burst, and through the window-openings poured a cold flood, chilling and wetting the drunken mob within. [10]
- It was the wildest mob Virginia had ever seen and the most determined and ungovernable; and when at last it abated its fury and dispersed, it had not a penny in its pocket. [5]
- There was a wild outbreak of anger below, and the mob swarmed in from all around, and there we were treed, and prisoners. [5]
- And now the whole nation--pulpit and all --will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. [5]
- It was you who betrayed him to the mob, and--" "Wait, wait," Fleda cried in agitation. [11]
- The vast mob which thronged the wide space beyond the shouting circle just round us was much like that of any other fair, so far as I could see from my royal perch. [6]
- And again, as when swept along East Street with the mob, that sense of identity with these people and their wrongs, of submergence with them in their cause possessed her. [9]
- It's pretty well-guessed what you're goin' to say and what you know, and you take it from me, the M'Mahon mob that's behind Logan 'll have it in for you. [11]
- The whole mob were suffering for exercise, and it was not fifteen minutes till they were all on foot and I had the lead again. [5]
- The lictors who were keeping off the mob had stopped Melissa too; but while Alexander had been gazing into Agatha's imploring eyes, feeling as though all his blood had rushed to his heart and face, Melissa had contrived to creep up close to him. [10]
- I made my way, Banks behind me, into Church Street, past the "Ship" tavern, which brought memories of the brawl there, and of Captain Clapsaddle forcing the mob, like chaff, before his sword. [9]
- The soldiers protected us from bodily damage, but as we passed through the great mob at the castle we were assailed with insults and shameful epithets. [5]
- The mob closed upon them in a body, and then a patrol-wagon whirled up from the other side, and a squad of policemen leaped out and began to club the rioters. [8]
- As the gray uniforms file out of the gate, the crowd has become a mob, now flowing back into the fields on each side of the road, now pressing forward vindictively until stopped by the sergeants and corporals. [9]
- The mob, the traitor... the public welfare," thought he. [2]
- You'd better listen to what people are saying," said some of the mob pointing to the tall youth. [2]
- Then he turned to the mob and said: "Hunt your holes, you scum! [5]
- He tek me to the King, I am made lieutenant, the mob come and the King and Queen are carry off to Paris. [9]
- The mob try to have some fun with him, don't they? [5]
- The mob wanted to burn her. [5]
- We made good time across the open ground, and as we darted into the shelter of the wood I glanced back and saw a mob of excited peasants swarm into view, with Marco and his wife at their head. [5]
- The mob had thrown stones at the upper windows, in order to awaken him, and had insulted him with cursing and offensive language. [4]
- The danger which threatened Apollodorus and his guests was indeed imminent, and it had been provoked solely by the indignation of the excited mob at seeing the wealthy Israelite's house unadorned for the feast. [10]
- More than ten thousand people were still in Moscow on the first and second of September, and except for a mob in the governor's courtyard, assembled there at his bidding, nothing happened. [2]
- The ringleader of this little mob was a short-haired bully and amateur prize-fighter named Allen, who was accustomed to lording it over the upper floor, and had more than once shown a disposition to make trouble with Tracy. [5]
- For a space there was a very bedlam of cries and broken heads, those behind in the mob surging forward to reach the scrimmage, forcing their own comrades over the edge. [9]
- The landlord and the two village policemen stood their ground, and at last the mob was persuaded to go away and leave our Italians in peace. [5]
- For libraries are the standing armies of civilization, and an army is but a mob without a general who can organize and marshal it so as to make it effective. [3]
- The wind howled, the rain lashed with fury against the windows, the mob tore through the streets of the town, sacked the wine-shops, built great fires at the corners. [9]
- In spite of the old woman's earnest advice not to mix in the crowd, she had pushed her way through, and, as the men-at-arms dispersed the mob, she came nearer to her favorite but too reckless brother. [10]
- When they reached the Myasnitski Street and could no longer hear the shouts of the mob, the count began to repent. [2]
- The vanguard of the mob, thrust on by increasing pressure from behind, tumbled backward the thin cordon of police, drew nearer and nearer the bayonets, while the soldiers grimly held their ground. [9]
- He capered among the mob like a very maniac. [5]
- It was in the midst of this wild mob that Noel and I had our first glimpse of La Hire. [5]
- A general of the Imperial army--a Goth named Botheric--had been killed by the mob, and the Emperor had thus avenged his death. [10]
- In five minutes the dead solitude and silence of the place were no more, and a begging, screeching, shouting mob were struggling about the horses' feet and blocking the way. [5]
- Before he entered the court-yard he ordered the crowd to disperse; the refractory were driven away by force, and in a few minutes the valley was cleared of the howling and shouting mob, and the burning house was surrounded by soldiers. [10]
- And we learned that up at the castle things were going very badly, indeed; that there was a great mob gathered there who considered the relapse a lie and a priestly trick, and among them many half-drunk English soldiers. [5]
- It is said that they had escaped before the mob rushed on the house. [10]
- He knew, too, that Tarautas was the name of a hateful and bloodthirsty gladiator which had been given as a nickname to Caesar in Rome; and when he heard the insolent fellow's cry taken up by the mob, who shouted after him, "Tarautas's brother-in-law! [10]
- Another cry like that had rung out in another mob across the seas more than a century before. [9]
- They were instantly surrounded by an inquisitive mob, laughing or scolding the combatants, and urging them to fight or beseeching them to separate. [10]
- Scarcely is the sun risen when we are plagued by the parasitical and inquisitive mob. [10]
- Everywhere in the streets the machines of justice were visible-pillories for the neck and hands, stocks for the feet, and chains to stretch across, in case of need, and stop a mob. [4]
- Can Jack Fairfax stop a mob! [5]
- Tears of mortification sprang to his eyes, but he stood his ground and defied the mob right royally. [5]
- A large and splendid barge had drawn up close to the platform, and shouts were heard from the tribune and from the mob which had till now looked on in breathless suspense and profound silence: "Susannah's barge! [10]
- However, the mob soon came to that conclusion themselves; wherefore they called off the assault and began to debate other plans. [5]
- Then, in fancy she saw herself surrounded by a raging mob, dragged to the river and cast into a watery grave before a thousand eyes. [10]
- And so it shall have the definite article, and not be lost in the mob of its fellows as a portfolio. [6]
- It is the Senate which, in this somewhat inaccurate repetition of history, hold the citadel if not the bridge; and in spite of the howling mob below their windows, scornfully refuse even to discuss the Pingsquit bill. [9]
- It was now quite dark and the mob had spread even into this usually deserted quarter. [10]
- I think it probable that I had as much enjoyment in forming one of the great mob in 1834 as I had among the grandeurs in 1886, but the last is pleasanter to remember and especially to tell of. [6]
- On and on pressed the mob, gathering recruits at every corner, and when they reached St. Xavier's before the fort half the regiment was there. [9]
- Happily they were plated with bronze and fastened with strong iron bolts, but they might fly open at any moment and then the furious mob would storm into the hall. [10]
- We visited the places where Jesus worked for fifteen years as a carpenter, and where he attempted to teach in the synagogue and was driven out by a mob. [5]
- Walking through the Place du Vier Prison, he recalled the morning when he had rescued Ranulph from the hands of the mob. [11]
- Norway Rat was perched upon the summit engaged in thrusting his tail into the cylindrical projection, drawing it out dripping, permitting the struggling multitude of laborers to suck the end of it, then straightway reinserting it and delivering the fluid to the mob as before. [5]
- When the Saviour passed there, she came out, full of womanly compassion, and spoke pitying words to him, undaunted by the hootings and the threatenings of the mob, and wiped the perspiration from his face with her handkerchief. [5]
- The owner usually overlooked the departure of the flocks and herds, and the mob had marked him and his family for the first victims of their fury. [10]
- The mob found out a most strange thing, an almost incredible thing--that this handful of soldiers had come on this hardy errand with empty guns and no ammunition. [5]
- For a day or two the whole village was a chattering turmoil over Frau Brandt's case and over the mysterious calamity that had overtaken the mob, and at her trial the place was crowded. [5]
- They flock through one's dreams at night, a wild mob of nightmares. [5]
- The mob pressed on, their enjoyment nothing disturbed by this episode. [5]
- We climbed up on this bough, and began to work our way along it to the body of the tree; now we began to hear those sounds more plainly; so the mob had struck our trail. [5]
- Now, the mob on the contrary--who think themselves beautifully dressed in a threadbare cloth hanging round their brown loins--are far better off. [10]
- In a room of the Petit Trianon stood the furniture, just as poor Marie Antoinette left it when the mob came and dragged her and the King to Paris, never to return. [5]
- A fresh wave of the flying mob caught him and bore him back with it. [2]
- Had he thought of him and foreseen that his father's dwelling would be first attacked, he would never have headed the mob in their pursuit of vengeance; nay, he bitterly repented having forgotten the deliberate judgment which befitted his years. [10]
- All that mob of editors will come--and they will come hungry, too, and want somebody for breakfast. [5]
- But they got nothing by their curiosity, for the carruca did not draw up in the road, but was driven into Rufinus' garden, and the trees and shrubs hid it from the gaze of the expectant mob, which presently dispersed. [10]
- Their doctrine must not be brought into publicity; it is not devoid of a delusive charm and it is indispensable to the safety of the state that the mob should remain faithful to the old gods and sacrifices. [10]
- I was dazed, nor did I feel--save once--a fleeting surge of contempt for the mob below me with their silly faces upturned to mine. [9]
- Certainly he had no more desire to stand up before a mob of confiding human incapables and debauch them than you had. [5]
- Then, from somewhere near the edge of the mob, came a single, sharp detonation, quickly followed by another--below the watchmen on the roof a window crashed. [9]
- They think no more of killing a man--" "Than an Australian squatter does of dispersing a mob of aboriginals or kangaroos," said Clovelly. [11]
- It was some more human nature; the admiring little folk imitating their elders; they were playing mob, and had achieved a success which promised to be a good deal more serious than they had bargained for. [5]
- What a nice mob you press fellows are--wholesale scavengers! [11]
- Who could the mob whistle at, so long as they could not see one from another? [10]
- Sellers found the mob quiet enough when he reached the Landing. [5]
- They were a mob of marauders, each carrying a quantity of articles which seemed to him valuable or useful. [2]
- Then the small mob began to take its revenge--revenge for the discomfort and apprehension it had brought upon itself by its own too rash freshness of a little while before. [5]
- As soon as Miles Hendon and the little prince were clear of the mob, they struck down through back lanes and alleys toward the river. [5]
- To show fear might precipitate a catastrophe with this drunken mob. [11]
- The two brothers, meanwhile, had left the mob far behind them. [10]
- You remember telling me, the day after the Baltimore mob in April, 1861, that it would crush all Union feeling in Maryland for me to attempt bringing troops over Maryland soil to Washington. [7]
- Barbara Ivanovna told me the mob near killed her because she said something in French. [2]
- But, however that may be, it was a fatal discovery that the mob had made. [5]
- I finished Guy Mannering--that curious, curious book, with its mob of squalid shadows jabbering around a single flesh-and-blood being--Dinmont; a book crazily put together out of the very refuse of the romance-artist's stage properties--finished it and took up Quentin Durward, and finished that. [5]
- The psalm rang loudly through the temple-courts above the murmur and grumble of the angry, terrified and expectant mob. [10]
- Without flinching she looked down upon the upturned faces; but a mob of that kind has no pity. [9]
- Boston is just like other places of its size;--only perhaps, considering its excellent fish-market, paid fire-department, superior monthly publications, and correct habit of spelling the English language, it has some right to look down on the mob of cities. [6]
- I could not let him go unpunished and so I have killed two birds with one stone: to appease the mob I gave them a victim and at the same time punished a miscreant. [2]
- Your honour well knows we have naught against either, and are as peaceful a mob as ever assembled. [9]
- A mob was in her wake, jeering and shouting, "Blasphemer and heretic! [5]
- The mob fell humbly back, like so many spaniels. [5]
- Does he know how to deal with that mob of roaring devils? [5]
- He had promised his wife solemnly that he would keep away from these, and he had a natural inclination to keep his promise; he had no wish to be that peaceful spectator who always gets shot when there is any firing on a mob. [8]
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