129 collocations for overturns

He offered Quiroga a hundred men, if he chose to overturn the government and seize upon La Rioja.

When it is granted, as an abstract proposition, that the capabilities of science are sufficient to counteract the mere wasting influence of time upon the human system, you are met by a great practical fact which will overturn your theory.

You see a man of strong animal propensities, but with a lofty soul, appearing in a wicked and materialisticand possibly atheisticage, overturning all previous systems of philosophy, and inculcating a new and higher law of morals.

But they were bitterly hated by the king and the princes of the house of Valois, and especially by the Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lorraine,the most powerful famlies in France,because they meditated to overturn, not the throne, but the old established religion.

Then Belle Isoult arose, overturning the table of chessmen as she did so, but she made no outcry nor sound of any sort.

But at that instant, with the swiftness of a flash of lightning, a figure rushed in, overturning a chair and knocking a servant down, and in the midst of the general surprise seized the lamp, rushed to the azotea, and threw it into the river.

He became a lover of Sofia's mother, he had a hand in overturning plans I had made, he humiliated, mocked me....

Would it forgive him who had overturned the consecrated altars, displaced the ritual of a thousand years, and revolted from the authority of the supreme head of the Christian world?

It is, indeed, objected, that by passing this bill, we shall transfer the authority of trying him to the other house; that we shall give up our privileges for ever, erect a new court of judicature, and overturn the constitution.

I supposed them to value Parliamentary Government, and to have foresight enough to know the alarming dangers to which they would be exposed, if they allowed the armed interference of Russia to overturn historical, limited, representative institutions.

Or, if he did, going at the speed of this one, he would most certainly overturn the carriage.

And a hope rose within me that with all the forces that were here, some revolution might be possible,something that would change the features of this place and overturn the worlds.

Force overturning law, trampling on the liberty of the press and of the person, deriding the popular will, in whose name the Government pretends to act.

It was quite possible that now and again other generals besides Boulanger had dreamt of overturning the Republic, but they had not the means to do so.

Chains of gold he saw there, which were pretended and unhappy love-matches; and eagles' claws, which were deputed authorities; and pairs of bellows, which were princes' favours; and overturned cities and treasuries, being treasons and conspiracies; and serpents with female faces, that were coiners and thieves; and all sorts of broken bottles, which were services rendered in miserable courts.

Yet from these very wars sprung the events which overturned their power and destroyed themselves.

He took much to the company of the younger clergy, not from a wish to bring them over to his opinions, for he never attempted to overturn any man's principles, but they best understood his notions, and could furnish him with literary conversation.'

The men who finally overturned the fabric of despotism which Richelieu constructed were the philosophers.

The minute Dravot puts on the Master's apron that the girls had made for him, the priest fetches a whoop and a howl, and tries to overturn the stone that Dravot was sitting on.

His start overturned the gorged waste-paper basket and shot a shower of paper across the rug.

Then to see her overturning her ribbon-box!

A sinful heart can have no right views of God, and of course will have defective views of his Word: for sin distorts the judgment, and overturns the balance of the mind on all moral subjects, far more than even the best of men are aware of.

He knew, that a wild democracy had overturned kings, lords, and commons; and that a set of republican fanatics, who would not bow at the name of Jesus, had taken possession of all the livings, and all the parishes in the kingdom.

The schemes of the great Amazonian General, Sallianna, seemed to be crowned with complete success; and, doubtless, all would have turned out as she desired, but for one of those trivial circumstances which overturn the most carefully matured conceptions of the greatest intellects.

The result was a very fair row; I got through the lecture, despite many interruptions, but when it was over a regular riot ensued; the enraged Christians shook their fists at me, swore at me, and finally took to kicking as I passed out to the cab; only one kick, however, reached me, and the attempts to overturn the cab were foiled by the driver, who put his horse at a gallop.

129 collocations for  overturns