The greatest of all German shipping centers, and, before the outbreak of the European war, one of the greatest seaports in the whole world.

And you, Frank, are an American who was shanghaied aboard a sailing vessel in Naples soon after the outbreak of the war.

It was characterized also by the great Protestant outbreak against the despotic pretensions of the Church, which once, in its antagonism to the rival temporal power, had befriended the liberties of the people, but now (especially since the death of Boniface VIII.) sought to enthrall them with a tyranny far worse than that of irresponsible king or emperor.

Having conquered the governments of the world, Rome had to face outbreak after outbreak from the unarmed, unsheltered masses of the people.

Throughout the territory thus invaded the Romans had with their usual military skill established fortified posts; and a powerful army of occupation was kept on foot, ready to move instantly on any spot where a popular outbreak might be attempted.

Since the Pequod war, there had been no great Indian uprising; but there was a general feeling of uneasiness which seemed to portend a general outbreak.

Rumors of an Indian outbreak were rife; still the good people of Hadley were living in comparative security.

The outbreak was infectious, and from every side the clamor swelled and burst till it seemed as if the universe had vaulted into mad tumult at the touch of a girl's hand.

The outbreak of the World War found Germany in possession of the leased area and in substantial control of the territory under the concession.

There should also be provision for the summoning of special conferences on the demand of any one of the great powers or, if there were danger of an outbreak of war, of any member of the league.

With a fierce outbreak of passionate reproaches he solemnly forbade them to take part in any further proceedings against him, and gave formal notice of an appeal to Rome.

They are not men and women of great passionate natures, who flame out now and then in an outbreak like a volcano, from which everybody runs.

"On the 19th of March, the day after the outbreak of the terrible sedition, of which the last horrors will form one of the most frightful pages in history, there appeared upon the walls a placard which made known to Paris the names of its new masters.

In his eyes it was the great opponent of progress, the venal slave which had not only destroyed the chances of a successful outbreak, and whose endeavour had been to keep Ireland under the heel of her tyrant.

To the Protestants, fresh from their terrible struggle, the thought of a closer union with England seemed to promise greater protection in case of any similar outbreak.

On another occasion, while Campbell was in command of a camp of militia, at the time of a Cherokee outbreak, he wrote a letter to his wife, a sister of Patrick Henry, that gives us a glimpse of the way in which he looked at Indians.

There was a fresh outbreak.

In 1393, a year after his first outbreak of madness, the king, during an entertainment at court, conceived the idea of disguising as savages himself and five of his courtiers.

Thereupon there was a fresh outbreak of those crusades so often renewed since the end of the thirteenth century.

Days would pass without a single outbreak.

General Richard Montgomery, who led the revolutionists in their attack on Quebec in 1775-76, furnishes the case of an English officer who, having resigned his commission, came to America and, on the outbreak of the rebellion, took service in the rebel forces.

The outbreak of armed rebellion must have shocked many into a reactionary attitude.

The next year (1778) there was an outbreak of sporadic raiding all along the border.

The Bastille was the famous prison destroyed in 1789 at the outbreak of the French Revolution.

After the outbreak of the Civil War, white men called "patarollers" were posted around the various plantations to guard against runaways, and if slaves were caught off their respective plantations without permits from their masters they were severely whipped.