But there was worse to follow, for scarce had the first tap of the drums echoed among the trees, when the mob of regulars became a mere frenzied rabble.

Slaves swelled the useless rabbles of the cities, and devoured the revenues of the State.

They were simply an armed rabble.

We fear not what they babble; Nor any paltry poet's pen Amongst that rascal rabble.

It is nothing less than rabble rule, letting the ignorant rabble say what we are to do.

Even in our meagre histories of culture, which, for the most part, resemble a collection of variant readings accompanied by a running commentary the classical text of which has perished, many a little book of which the noisy rabble took scant notice in its day, plays a greater rôle than all that this rabble did.

With barely enough provision to carry us to Fort Cumberland, and with no ammunition save that in our cartouch boxes, the retreat commenced, if the flight of a disordered and frenzied rabble can be dignified by such a name.

History is silent respecting his adventures until his arrival at Berytus, where the strange wild-looking man with the uplifted arm found himself the centre of a turbulent and mischievous rabble.

In that battle, a great number of men, consisting, however, of a disorderly rabble of slaves and rustics, were slain or captured.

An undisciplined rabble of between three thousand and four thousand Gueux, under the direction of John de Soreas, gathered together in the neighborhood of Lille and Tournay, with a show of attacking these places.

"I know very well that you have returned to beg for all sorts of useless trash; I can't bear such eternal begging and whininga pitiful rabble that is all the time creeping to our feet.

If so, it would surely be the work of years to bring the untrained rabble that at present exists under discipline or order of any kind.

The letter had no superscription, and was to this effect; 'To acquaint the reader of it, that he had been discovered in his retreat by some fishermen of Kent, and secured at first there by the gentry, who were afterwards forced to resign him into the hands of an insolent rabble.

But the retinue of clients was above all serviceable to the ruling class as a means of commanding the comitia; and the issue of the elections shows clearly how powerfully the dependent rabble already at this epoch competed with the independent middle class.

So they went off and stirred up the people: and the end was that one sunshiny morning a dirty rabble marched up to the mill and laid hands on the saint.

Our national captains were carpet knights; our knights errant were among the dismounted rabble.

and then the flight was renewed, until the disorganized and half-armed rabble reached Fort Washington, and the mean log huts of Cincinnati.

After them a draggled rabble of lads and half-grown girls, bound together with ropes and kept at a dog's trot by the pricking spears of the men-at-arms behind, who thought it a jest to sink a spear point-deep in the flesh of a man's back"drawing the claret wine" they called it.

The reproach repeated -ad nauseam- by the erudite rabble in Hellenic and post-Hellenic timesthat the Romans had been at pains to stir up internal discord in Greeceis one of the most foolish absurdities which philologues dealing in politics have ever invented.

These were ignited at the proper moment and lowered within reach of the expectant rabble, and it was the privilege of members of the club, seated in the balcony, to watch the grimaces and to hear the shrieks of the victims, as they stamped and capered about with the hot coppers sticking to their hands, divided in their minds between an acute sense of pain and a thirst for filthy lucre.

From the commencement of what they styled 'the break of the battle,' there did not intervene more than ten minutesso soon may an efficient body of men become, by one transient emotion of cowardice, a feeble and contemptible rabble.

And now the royal carriage was surrounded by a vast and confused medley; market-women and the rest of the female rabble, with drunken gangs of the ruffians who had stormed the palace in the morning, still brandishing their weapons, or bearing loaves of bread on their pike-heads, and singing out that they should all have enough of bread now, since they were bringing the baker, the bakeress, and the baker's boy to Paris.

Shall we stay and hear MARK ANTONY praise him, and set the fickle rabble at the throats of ROCHEFORT and BRUTUS, and their gang?" 1ST EDITORIAL PERSON.

But whatever the Paris mob, in the drawing-rooms or in the streets, may have desired, I am confident the Government, if left to itself, had one object only in view, the rescue of Rome from the usurpation of a foreign rabble, and restoring the authority of the Pope, whom that rabble's violence had driven from his States.

But there was worse to follow, for scarce had the first tap of the drums echoed among the trees, when the mob of regulars became a mere frenzied rabble.