48 adjectives to describe uprisings

On his return to Manhattan, Stuyvesant found the wildest confusion reigning because of a sudden uprising of the Indians.

In the summer of 1911, Italy was celebrating her jubilee of national rebellion, and English writers who spend their years, day by day or week by week, sneering at freedom, betraying nationality, and demanding vengeance on rebels, burst into ecstatic rhapsodies about that glorious but distant uprising.

" - Unsuccessful uprising of the Poles.

From the beginning of the British occupation of India there had been frequent local uprisings caused by discontent or conspiracy, but the East India Company, and the officials of the British government who supported it, had perfect confidence in the loyalty of the sepoysthe native soldiers who were hired to fight against their fellow countrymen for so much pay.

A great, terrible, bloody uprising is unavoidable.

A number of the blacks escaped to the mountains where they dwelt as maroons; and in 1638 a concerted uprising proved so formidable that the suppression of it strained every resource of the government and the white inhabitants.

The disturbances in Haiti and Santo Domingo (1791-1800) resulting in the establishment of independence in Haiti, under Toussaint, excited unimportant uprisings on the part of negroes in Cuba, but they were quickly suppressed.

It was a fanatical uprising of the lower classes to obtain still greater political privileges, led by extreme radicals, of whom Mr. Feargus O'Connor was the most prominent leader, and Mr. Henry Vincent was the most popular speaker.

In that year he fled with his queen from a formidable uprising; and in 1863 Prince William, son of Christian IX.

The storm center of the political unrest was the French Revolution, that frightful uprising which proclaimed the natural rights of man and the abolition of class distinctions.

Each day that passed made his hurried uprising and scrambled breakfast more and more irksome; and on Monday morning, with hands in trouser-pockets and legs stretched out, he leaned back in his chair and received his wife's alarming intimations as to the flight of time with a superior and sphinx-like smile.

It was typical, nevertheless, of the sudden, impulsive uprising of the unorganized everywhere.

New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, Fall River and Lowell all contributed their quota of industrial uprisings among the exasperated and sorely pressed workers, with a sad similarity in the stories.

It was wild, visionary, and bitter from the start, and arose at a period when the English people were in economic distress, and when all Europe was convulsed with insurrectionary uprisings, and revolutionary principles were mixed up with socialism and anarchy.

" This revolt against priestly oppression was by no means, however, an irreligious uprising.

The hero is the Swiss people, and the action idealizes the legendary uprising of the Forest Cantons against their Austrian governors.

There was a limited uprising in Puerto Principe, in 1851, and a conspiracy was revealed, in Pinar del Rio, in 1852.

At the bottom of Cuba's several little uprisings, and at the bottom of its final revolt in 1895, lay the same cause of offence.

"That's the very feature of it that seems to me most dreadful; the vermicular aspect; the massed uprising; the massed death.

The infamous mismanagement of Kansas, by his immediate predecessor, had just shattered the most powerful of our party organizations, and caused a mighty uprising of the masses of the North in defence of menaced freedom.

[Many minor uprisings from local grievances.]

Perhaps the most widespread anti-missionary uprising in China occurred during the years 1870 and 1871.

It was soon afterwards that the Maryland colony at Cape Palmas was almost overwhelmed in a similar native uprising, and united with the Republic, as elsewhere narrated.

The twenty-fourth of February was set for the beginning of activities, but arms were lacking, and while the movement was actually begun on that day, the operations of the first six weeks or so were limited to numerous local uprisings of little moment.

After the death of Guaybána no other cacique ever attempted an organized resistance, and the partial uprisings that took place for years afterward were easily suppressed.

48 adjectives to describe  uprisings