Byron, always "famous for rowing," was a ringleader of the rebellious party, and compared himself to Tyrlaeus.

The ringleader of the mutineers was Francisco Roldan, a man whom Columbus had raised from the dust.

Marching very rapidly at the head of eighteen chosen men, he surprised the mutineers, captured the ringleader, and carried him off to the fort of Concepcion.

In passing the ball-players, he called out in a wheedling tone to their ringleader, a notorious street brawler "A fine time for sport, Dickey; don't you think there would be more room in the broad street than on this crowded lawn, where you lose your ball so often in the shrubbery?" "This place will do, on a pinch," bawled Dickey"though

The authour of The Rambler, however, may be considered, on this occasion, as the ringleader of a successful riot, though not as a skilful pyrotechnist.'

Thou that wert late a factious ringleader, And in the open field gav'st me fierce fight: Art thou again gathering another head, That with such rudeness thou dost entertain The gentle coming of thy sovereign? FITZ.

The ringleader here was plainly the Bassett.

Artizabal, the story goes, threatened to hang a certain ringleader (name not given) at his yard-arm.

The Lord of Lies, saith Austin, "as he was deceived himself, he seeks to deceive others," the ringleader to all naughtiness, as he did by Eve and Cain, Sodom and Gomorrah, so would he do by all the world.

Knives were then drawn and nourished, and matters were beginning to assume a serious aspect, when Walker made his appearance forward of the paddle-box, pointing a heavy pistol right at the head of the ringleader.

"So I left our quiet country home, with all its holy influences, for the turmoil and heartlessness of a large school, where I soon became the ringleader in all sorts of mischief.

An alleged conspiracy near Somerville in 1734 while it cost the reputed ringleader his life, cost his supposed colleagues their ears only.

" "But," asked the astonished pastor, "are you not known in this village as the ringleader in all evil doings?

Jimmy was the ringleader.

The farmer considers him as the very ringleader of mischief, and uses all means he can invent for his destruction; the friend of the singing-birds bears him a grudge as the destroyer of their eggs and young; and even the moralist is disposed to condemn him for his cunning and dissimulation.

Moussa Isa never boasted (if he realized the fact) that the collapse of the revolt and mutiny in Gungapur, before the arrival of troops, was due as much to the death of its chief ringleader and director, the blind faquir, as to the disastrous repulse of the great assault upon the Military Prison. § 2.

The ringleader was George Petrovi['c], known as Black George, or Kara-George, and amongst his confederates was Milo[)s] Obrenovi['c].

134; reveries, i. 144, n. 1, 145; Reynolds's pictures, 'never looked at,' ii. 317, n. 2; riding, v. 131, 285, 302: See JOHNSON, foxhunting; ringleader of a riot, said to have been the, iv.

Sir Phelim O'Neilla drunken ruffian for whom even the most patriotic historian finds it hard to say a redeeming wordwas here the ringleader.

I understand there's one Titian-haired young ladywho, by the way, has at least one husband who hasn't yet been divorcedwho is a sort of ringleader, though she rarely goes personally to her brokers' office.

One day, this same week, the giant ringleader of my assailants who had moved to baptize me by immersion in the icy waters of the harbor, himself, while fishing, fell through a hole in the ice and was drowned.

By this time eight of his men had fallen, and the rest being wounded, cried out for quarter, which was granted, as the ringleader was slain.

After warning them of the consequences of mutiny, the Major ordered their ringleader to be put in irons, and he was conveyed on board the Saghalin and imprisoned in the "black hole"; but his comrades still held out.

CAMERON, RICHARD, a Scotch Covenanter of the 17th century, born in Falkland, Fife; a ringleader of the persecuted Presbyterians, took to arms along with sixty others in defence of his rights; was surprised by a body of dragoons at AIRDS MOSS (q. v.), and after a brave fight slain, his head and hands cut off, and fixed on the Netherbow Port, at the head of the Canongate, Edinburgh, in 1680.

OTIS, JAMES, American lawyer, born in Massachusetts, distinguished as a ringleader in the revolution in the colonies against the mother-country that led to American independence, for which he had to pay with his life and the prior loss of his reason (1724-1783).