16 Metaphors for revolt

Zohák, seeing that he had lost the affections of the army, and that universal revolt was the consequence, adopted another course, and endeavored alone to be revenged upon his enemy.

A revolt, or insurrection, is often only an affair of intrigue and arrangement; and the desultory violences of the suburbs of St. Antoine, or of the market women, are regulated by the same Committee and cabals that direct our campaigns and treaties.

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

The revolt of 1173-74 was the final ruin of the old party of the Norman baronage.

Compared with this his Lecompton revolt had been a venial offense.

The military revolt which broke out in 1823, the leaders of which were two creoles, might easily have terminated fatally for Spain.

A little thought led us to recognise in this amalgamation a travesty of our old friend plum-pudding; but so revolting was its dark, bilious-looking exterior that we felt its claim to be accounted a compatriot almost insulting.

Ever striving to believe that complete satisfaction is to be found in material things, he is conscious of an inward and persistent revolt against this belief, which revolt is at once a refutation of his essential mortality, and an inherent and imperishable proof that only in the immortal, the eternal, the infinite can he find abiding satisfaction and unbroken peace.

We know of many revolts of Hun and Toba tribes in this period, revolts that had a religious appearance but in reality were simply the result of the extreme impoverishment of these remaining tribes.

Revolt was madness, and treason absurdity.

The Revolt Against Authority "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

In some respects this second slave revolt was a repetition of the first.

Can the American reformer assure us that a revolt of our daughters is the true course for their historical development to take?

The revolt was essentially a frontier revolt, and Sevier was essentially a frontier leader.

Regarding the cause of the revolution, it must be noted that the revolt was not a sudden, sporadic movement, nor the result of any single event.

Yet here's no rushing of exasperate wind, Booming revolt amidst a factious tide; Nor hateful shock on toothed reef and blind, Of foaming waves that with a sob subside.

16 Metaphors for  revolt