134 Verbs to Use for the Word mobs

This got rather disagreeable, so at length we took to stopping at the gates, turning right about, and facing the mob with our horses, until the gates were shut.

They think we live on store beef, But no, I’m not a gander; When a good fat stranger joins the mob, He’ll do, says the overlander.

At fifteen he not only read Greek, but spoke it fluently; and one of his astounded teachers remarked, "That boy could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one."

At another raid on an I.W.W. hall in 1918 Grimm was said by witnesses to have been leading the mob, "holding two American flags and dancing like a whirling dervish."

But the Guards kept the mob at a distance, though when they reached the hall the Jacobins made an effort to deprive them of that protection.

The consuls were appealed to for aid, but no one responded except Mr. Seward, who headed a strong force from one of our men-of-war, dispersed the mob, and secured the safety of the foreign settlement.

Yes, echoes the negro-hating mob, made up of "gentlemen of property and standing" together with equally gentle-men reeking from the gutter; YesPaul sent back Onesimus to Philemon!

This West was gathering a mob to follow yousaid he was going to hang you for destroying his whiskey.

You might raise a mob and have him driven away; but I will not consent to it.

HARRIS (standing up in front of piano and addressing the expectant mob): "I'm afraid it's a very old thing, you know.

Not an effort or a movement was made to quell the mob, during their assault upon the chapel.

If we find a mob of horses when the paddock rails are down, Although before they’re never known to stray, Oh, quickly will we drive them to some distant inland town, And sell them into slav’ry far away.

Some of them rushed out and told the mob, who crowded the bar-room and entries, that they had found a trunk full of abolition tracts.

All the people of Mowbray knew the good reputation of the Traffords, and Gerard's eloquence turned the mob from the attack.

He held off the mob until the very last moment, and, instead of seeking refuge in the refrigerator after the "paraders" had been dispersed, he ran out of the back door, reloading his pistol as he went.

She was now safe from violence, forasmuch as the claimant said that there was no occasion for rousing the mob; that he was proceeding by law, not by force.

[Lady Elizabeth Seymour], who has carried the mob of Westminster from him; sitting daily in the midst of Covent Garden; and will elect her son [Earl Percy] and Lord Thomas Clinton, against Wilkes's two candidates, Lord Mahon and Lord Mountmorris.

And it is my deliberate conviction that Sir Michael O'Dwyer was totally unfit to hold the office of Lieutenant Governor of Punjab and that his policy was primarily responsible for infuriating the mob at Amritsar.

She sees a mob of metaphors advance, Pleased with the madness of the mazy dance; How Tragedy and Comedy embrace; How Farce and Epic get a jumbled race; How Time himself stands still at her command, Realms shift their place, and ocean turns to land.

She quieted mobs, she calmed quarreling chiefs, she held meetings with the crowds, and on Sundays conducted services.

The bare suspicion of such an errand, as was implied by the latter words, and at that moment, was sufficient to excite the mob.

It was from thence I saw the poor wretches whom they feigned to release, ushered in to the square, where they encountered an ignoble mob, that ill-treated them in the most brutal manner.

Nature never explodes such wild and senseless energy as when she lets loose a mob in a panic.

Most probably, the report is only spread with the humane hope of appeasing the mob.

The good and rapid driving of his postilions enabled him to clear the desperate mob, but not till the head of his brother, Colonel Bruce, had been cut, injuries inflicted on the chief of police.

134 Verbs to Use for the Word  mobs