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Example sentences for "outbreaks"

Lexicographically close words:
outbidding; outboard; outbound; outbreak; outbreaking; outbuilding; outbuildings; outburst; outbursts; outcast
  1. Women are wonderfully patient of such affections in their own sex, and the harshest of them will be gentle and considerate with one of these outbreaks that they have agreed to call ‘nervous attacks.

  2. His mother was subject to violent outbreaks of passion, not unlike those often witnessed in the insane.

  3. There are no fevers in summer, but in winter, from so many men being shut up together, the air gets bad and sometimes we have outbreaks of fever.

  4. The effects on the air of minor paroxysmal outbreaks are also recorded by this instrument; but barometers in the most distant places record the same disturbance.

  5. Nearly all the phenomena of these volcanic outbreaks are new to science, and many of them have not yet been explained.

  6. The irruptions of intruders on their trust lands, their bloody dissensions among themselves, outbreaks of party, etc.

  7. In the third Article of the next treaty, also at Prairie du Chien, in 1830, began the trouble which has been from that day to this a source of never ending misunderstanding and of many fierce outbreaks on the part of the Sioux.

  8. The opening of the year 1588 found Korea still suffering from outbreaks of the far northern border and Gen.

  9. In 1482 the King built two forts on the Ya-lu near the town of Kang-gye because of threatened outbreaks of tribes living on the further side.

  10. It also resulted in outbreaks among slaves, incipient riots, because this humane tendency in the king emboldened them to claim more than he had intended.

  11. Later outbreaks of a similar character were met and subdued in an altogether different fashion.

  12. And the wonderful and repeated checks to small outbreaks of smallpox in the metropolis in the course of the past seven years bears overwhelming evidence to the truth of this dictum.

  13. It showed that in the most violent and extensive outbreaks of the pestilence its virulence was invariably confined to circumscribed localities.

  14. Arriving at the spot, it a little surprised me to discover that these merry outbreaks came from Priscilla.

  15. In their simple Sunday best, March thought them very quiet, decent-looking people, and he could well believe that they had nothing to do with the riotous outbreaks in other parts of the city.

  16. Local outbreaks began in Monte Cristi and became general in October, 1902.

  17. This one crushing defeat definitely broke the Indians' power, for though there were subsequent outbreaks they were only sporadic and, with one exception, of comparatively little importance.

  18. Numerous extensive and serious revolts of peasants occurred in different parts of Russia, the peasants looting the mansions of the landowners, and indulging in savage outbreaks of rioting.

  19. He considers that while opinion is moving to the Left the Government is moving to the Right, and that as the breach widens the outbreaks will get worse.

  20. The outbreaks in Munich and the south were outside the political orbit in which the Government was moving.

  21. These outbreaks were not formidable enough to force the Government to depart from its policy of suppressing not only revolts, but the revolution.

  22. The outbreaks in the coast ports and the coal districts of Westphalia were remote, and their unexpectedly easy repression by flying columns only confirmed the Government in a policy of coercion.

  23. Outbreaks such as that at Halle were only bubbles breaking out on the surface.

  24. They were filled with the most violent antipathy to the government and were with difficulty restrained, even by their leaders, from outbreaks in sympathy with the uprisings which elsewhere were taking place.

  25. All this time he had held a firm hand on the island from which he had come, so that few if any outbreaks occurred among its restless Turanian or native inhabitants.

  26. Russia had not yet recovered from the wounds inflicted on her by the struggle with Japan and by the revolutionary outbreaks to which that struggle gave rise.

  27. Now and then there are outbreaks of savage violence on the part of young lads in the streets; acts which, apparently purposeless and certainly cruel, shock the citizens and anger them.

  28. How then do these outbreaks originate, and what causes them to cease?

  29. The fanatical outbreaks of recent times have been exclusively limited to the Ernad and Walluvanad taluks.

  30. For a detailed account of the fanatical [201] outbreaks in the Mappilla community, which have long disturbed the peace of Malabar from time to time, I must refer the reader to the District Manual and Gazetteer.

  31. The Kotas worship further Magali, to whose influence outbreaks of cholera are attributed, and Mariamma, who is held responsible for smallpox.

  32. Two violent outbreaks of religious feeling in opposite directions had given a character to the history of a whole century.


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