" Having received an invitation from Kung-shan Fuh-jau, who was in revolt against the government and was holding to his district of Pi, the Master showed an inclination to go.

Imperfectly understood in what it intended to do for the players, it was seized upon as a reason for the revolt of the players and the organization of the Brotherhood League.

When he was in London on one occasion he heard that there had been a revolt in the military prison in the Savoy.

There were perpetual robberies and murders by nighta most unusual state of things for Florence; and the people seemed to be on the verge of revolt at the least provocation.

But if you will" She shivered when she heard him; and it became apparent to her why no one could be found to go,for all her nature revolted from that step, which it was evident must be the most terrible which could be thought of.

As the doctrine, however, was extremely revolting to some few of the early Christians, they maintained that demons were the souls of departed human beings, who were still permitted to interfere in the affairs of the Earth, either to assist their friends or to persecute their enemies.

The corresponding artistic revolt on the continent was closely connected with changes in the political world.

Overhead a skylight with dingy panes diffused a dull blue glimmer which discovered a yawning door at her elbow, a pocket of black mystery beyond, and on the uppermost steps of the staircase her patient yellow shadow, his upturned eyes inscrutable but potentially revolting with their very concealment of the intent behind them.

"And is it more revolting for the friends of young ladies to look out for them, on such occasions, than that the young ladies should take the affair into their own hands, as is practised quite as openly, here?"

Excited to revolt by the severities of the Inquisition, the Aragonese put to death the chief inquisitor, Pedro Arbues.

There is a deep sense not only of discontent, but of anger and revolt among the workmen against pre-war conditions.

They had their vices, but those vices were not half so revolting as those of barons and knights.

Food at which one would revolt under other circumstances is devoured eagerly.

" If it were possible to allude to an evil more revolting than the sports of the amphitheatre and circus, or the extravagant luxuries of the table, I would say that the universal abandonment to money-making, for the enjoyment of the factitious pleasures it purchased, was even still more melancholy, since it struck deeper into the foundations which supported society.

To think that people whose religion had spread 'murder, persecution, and revolt throughout the world' were to be entrenched along the St Lawrence was bad enough.

My heart revolts within me, and two voices Make themselves audible within my bosom.

In fact, the inhabitants of Same, who feared that they would be dispossessed from their well-situated town by a Roman colony, revolted after their first submission and sustained a four months' siege; the town, however, was finally taken and the whole inhabitants were sold into slavery.

In Royalist eyes it was a servile revolt, and was to be treated as servile revolts during the Middle Ages had always been treated.

These outrages were sufficient to produce a revolt through the whole island.

" "No," I agreed, and fell silent, shivering a little, for there is something horrible and revolting about the poisoner.

It may well be that some day they will try the fortune of one more general revolt before accepting the permanent over-lordship of their conquerors.

Instead of trying to excuse themselves by telling public and official lies, which are almost more revolting than war itself, they should take their stand, as bold as brass, on Macchiavelli's doctrine.

And long I dare not stay for feare my absence Be cause of their revolt unto Navar.

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.

A serious revolt amongst the Liigese called for his presence in Flanders.