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Sentences ending with revolt

The regiment in which Hans Eitelfritz served, and the other companies of lansquenets, had succumbed to the temptation, and only waited the signal for revolt. [10]
At first the thought of him had moved her alternately to sympathy and to revolt. [11]
And he's right--it's something we've got to decide on right away, and get started on soon, we can't afford to wobble and run any chances of a revolt. [9]
To McDonald, indeed, she had often shown her irritation, and it was only the strong good sense of the governess that kept her from revolt. [4]
She shuddered as she accepted it, and that shudder was the nucleus of a terrible revolt. [13]
At moments he seemed to see her shining, accusing, as Truth herself, and again as a Circe who had drawn him by subtle arts from his wanderings, luring him to his death; or, at other times, as the mutinous daughter of revolt. [9]
Even the genial ruffian Clark was amenable, and took sharp reprimand without revolt. [11]
But there are proofs that the army is seditious, that, at any moment, it may revolt. [11]
Surely, this does not encourage them to revolt. [7]
He is a man whose heart-strings have been torn--" He had worked himself up into a fit of eloquence and revolt. [11]

More example sentences with the word revolt in them

The mood in which she had talked to Lady Tynemouth was gone, and in its place a spirit of revolt was at work. [11]
He knew too well the old feud between their houses, the ambition that had possessed many a Vaufontaine to inherit the dukedom of Bercy, and the Duke's futile revolt against that possibility. [11]
The sewer water was not an offence to them, the corpse did not revolt them; the sacred water had touched both, and both were now snow-pure, and could defile no one. [5]
Charley's soul rose up in revolt against the danger that faced him--not against personal peril, but the danger of being dragged back again into the life he had come from, with all that it involved--the futility of this charge against him! [11]
Save for this untimely and unreasonable revolt he was bent on stamping out, for Ditmar the world to-day was precisely the same world it had been the day before. [9]
He would refuse to examine the figures; they would revolt him so, and he could go to his death unaware that there was nothing serious about them. [5]
All who had to do with Egypt gained except herself, and if she moved in revolt or agony, they threatened her. [11]
Some think that this murder is a frenzied revolt against the criminal militarism which is impoverishing Europe and driving the starving poor mad. [5]
Until that moment the revolt had been personal, local, founded on a particular grievance which had to do with wages and the material struggle for existence. [9]
It is true that the revolt within the party has never gained much headway in our state, but in these days it is difficult to tell when and where a conflagration may break out, or how far it will go. [9]
It seems impossible that our own dissensions can produce anything more than local disturbances, like the Morristown revolt, which Washington put down at once by the aid of his faithful Massachusetts soldiers. [6]
Should the revolt take place, she would be satisfied with nothing less than the truth, even as he, Austen Vane, had not been satisfied. [9]
They would have succeeded in this great scheme, as I understand it, but for the interference of Cecil Rhodes and Mr. Beit, and other Chiefs of the Matabele, who persuaded their countrymen to revolt and throw off their allegiance to Germany. [5]
One kind-hearted creature spies upon another, and sees to it that he loyally helps in iniquities which revolt both of them. [5]
It was the source of her revolt at Jasmine's conduct and character. [11]
Dyck Calhoun had smashed the rebellion, had quieted the island, had risen above all the dark disturbances of revolt like a master. [11]
At first it seemed to her that a trap had been set, and that David was to be the victim of Oriental duplicity; but revolt, as she did, from the miserable creature before them, she saw at last that he spoke the truth. [11]
Why, the humblest sailor would have more sense than to start a revolt, the success of which depends upon his personal influence, and the failure of which must end in his own ruin. [11]
What Machiavelli beheld round him in Italy was a civic disorder in which there was oppression without statecraft, and revolt without patriotism. [5]
These finical refinements revolt me; it is not right, it is not honorable; it is constructive nepotism to keep in office a Had that is so delicate it can't come out when the wind's in the nor'west--I won't have this dude on the payroll. [5]
Mazarine's face might revolt him, but not his character. [11]
I represent a revolt from it. [9]
It was the plotter of the revolt, the leader, the manager of the "Underground Railway," the beloved of the convicts--Gabrielle Rouget. [11]
The meals that people devour here almost revolt me. [11]
Further she went on to say to "our sister of England" that "these dark figures of murder and revolt be a peril to the soft peace of this good realm. [11]
All this jarred on Dyck Calhoun and gave revolt to his senses. [11]
Hers was one of those volcanic natures, defying calculation and ordinary conceptions of life; having the fullest capacity for all the elementary passions--hatred, love, cruelty, delight, loyalty, revolt, jealousy. [11]
The army will not revolt, the Prince will not be slain. [11]
The revolt of Myrtle Hazard from the tyranny of that dogmatic dynasty now breaking up in all directions has found new illustrations since this tale was written. [6]
I think the men are ready for anything that'll come; but I also think we should guard against a revolt of the midshipmen by healthy discipline now. [11]
Butchers and milkmen loitered, regardless of waiting customers; a little company of soldiers caught up the chorus, and, to avoid involuntary revolt, their sergeant halted them, that they might listen. [11]
They had left Ireland together in the late autumn, leaving behind them the stirrings of the coming revolution, and plunging into another revolt which was to prove the test and trial of English character. [11]
Dyck was right in thinking that in the midshipmen's dismal berth the first flowers of revolt to his rule would bloom. [11]
Then at last I rose in revolt. [5]
Briefly Dyck explained how as soon as he had dealt with the revolt of the Maroons at his own place he came straight to Salem. [11]
Once they met his with a wild sort of pleading or revolt, he could not tell which, and then were continually turned away. [11]
Experience had led him to believe that he who finds a woman in revolt and gives her a religion inevitably becomes her possessor. [9]
At first, in her desire to find a way to meet the needs of Ingolby, Fleda had listened to him with fortitude and even without revolt. [11]
With this view he set himself the task of warming the lawful and legitimate petitions and supplications of the Uitlanders into seditious talk, and their frettings into threatenings--the final outcome to be revolt and armed rebellion. [5]
Why should she hate him, despise him, revolt against him, and yet feel that, as it were by invisible cords, he drew her back to that which she had forsworn, to the Past which dragged at her feet? [11]
We have not happy days before us; the revolt in Judaea, too, will again cost thousands of lives. [10]
On the other hand, to exaggerate the captivating qualities of her son-in-law would be to weaken the cause of revolt, in which all her energies were deeply engaged. [12]
The house he had vacated was not large, but essentially distinctive; with the oddity characteristic of the revolt against the banal architecture of the 80's. [9]
And as man from a genealogical point of view belongs to the Catarrhine or Old World stock, we must conclude, however much the conclusion may revolt our pride, that our early progenitors would have been properly thus designated. [1]
They see the end of the revolt. [11]
Yet now that disaster had come, there was a glimmer of remorse, of revolt, because there was some one besides himself who might think he had thrown away his chances. [11]
There she looms dim and great, through the haze of the centuries, delivering into her husband's ear that gospel of revolt which was to bear fruit in the conspiracy of Rutli and the birth of the first free government the world had ever seen. [5]
Ranulph stood looking dazedly at the crowd before him, misery, revolt, and bitterness in his heart. [11]
Gabrielle Rouget may cause a revolt of the convicts some day, to secure the escape of Henri Durien, or to give them all a chance. [11]
He couldn't sit by and see a revolt against British rule without raising a hand. [11]
Or had Bucklaw been on deck, instead of in the surgeon's cabin playing a hard game with death, matters might not have gone so far as they did; for he would have had immediate personal influence repressive of revolt. [11]
The disease, eating away his life, had diminished that revolt against death which is in the healthy flesh of every man. [11]
Both were turned away from the clerical office by a revolt of conscience against the beliefs required of them; both lost very dear objects of affection in early manhood, and mourned for them in tender and mellifluous threnodies. [6]
The revolt from authority, the assertion of the right of private judgment, has been pushed forward into a socialism which destroys individual liberty of action, or to a state of anarchy in which the weak would have no protection. [4]
Paralleling the movement, at times mingling with it, was the revolt of labour, manifested not only in political action, but in strikes and violence. [9]
Men say: 'Look at our history, revolutions have not been in our line; and look at our political map, its construction is unfavourable to an organised uprising, and without unity what could a revolt accomplish? [5]
She was stirred anew to anger and revolt against a life so precarious and sordid as to be threatened in its continuity by the absurd failure of a stove, when, glancing at her sister, she felt a sharp pang of self-conviction, of self-disgust. [9]
Stafford understood Jasmine, and Stafford had insisted that he be not deceived by some revolt on the part of Jasmine, which would be the outcome of her own humiliation, of her own anger with herself for all the trouble she had caused. [11]
There had been a revolution in her nature, and all her tragic experience, her emotions, and her faculties, had been shaken into a crucible where the fire of pain and revolt burned on and on and on. [11]
When he had a revolt against anything in life, the grim storm scenes of winter in the shanties under the trees and the snow-swept hills came to his mind's eye. [11]

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