In the important station of the Upper Danube, the conqueror of Britain checked and defeated the armies of the Alemanni, before he was chosen to suppress the revolt of Africa.
In the mean while Valentinian was alarmed and perplexed by the doubtful intelligence of the revolt of the East.
That royal maid, who had innocently supported the revolt of Procopius, was now the destined wife of the heir of the Western empire.
But the memory of the cruelties exercised by his ministers, after the unsuccessful revolt of Nepotian, had left a deep impression of horror and resentment on the minds of the Romans.
The chief movers of the revolt were put to death; but Guarionex was delivered up to his people, who flocked by thousands to his place of imprisonment, clamouring for his restitution.
He dreaded the return of Columbus, as likely to excite the seditious to a revoltagainst his own government.
But his severities produced a revolt in Africa, where the legions proclaimed their proconsul Gordian emperor, then in the eightieth year of his age.
The revolt of the Ædui shortly afterward compelled him to raise the siege, and inspired the Gauls with fresh courage.
The revolt now became general, and the island was delivered over to the murderous fury of men maddened by oppression, cruelty, and insult.
Three great victories in three years, followed by the revolt of a city scarcely inferior to Rome itself in importance, seemed to promise a speedy termination of the war.
In the following year Fabius defeated Viriathus with great loss; but this success was more than counterbalanced by the revolt of the Celtiberians, the bravest and most noble-minded of the Spaniards.
Her Libyan subjects she treated with extreme harshness, and hence they were always ready to revolt against her so soon as a foreign enemy appeared upon her soil.
Maximian, in the mean time, subdued a revolt in Africa; and Diocletian himself suppressed one of those seditions to which Egypt was constantly exposed.
These imprudent measures produced a revolt among the Jews, who, under their leader Barcochab, fought with their usual courage and desperation.
The unsuccessful issue of last year's revolt had not yet damped the spirits of the Gauls.
He himself sailed to that island, caused nearly the whole of the cities of Ionia to revolt from Athens, and injured the Athenian cause much by constantly assisting the Lacedaemonian generals.
Here they induced several cities to revolt from the barbarians, and not only gained abundant pay and plunder for themselves from their conquests, but were able to furnish funds for the approaching war.
This story is proved to be false by Herakleides of Pontus, he quoting Anakreon's poems, in which Artemon Periphoretus is mentioned many generations before the revolt and siege of Samos.
Now as Remus raised a revolt within, while Romulus assailed the palace without, the despot was captured and put to death without having been able to do anything, or take any measures for his own safety.
He still identified him somehow with the Snake, and had a glorious, if passing, sensation of successful revolt and some revenge.
The revolt of Géricault and Delacroix against David and Ingres are equally well known in the field of painting.
It was genuinely expressive of a certain order of ideas intelligently held, a certain set of principles sincerely believed in, a view of art as positive and genuine as the revolt against the tyrannous system into which it developed.
But his fame is not dependent upon his revoltagainst the Institute, his influence upon his successors, or his incarnation of an æsthetic movement.
It was a revolt against a monstrous tyranny, but a tyranny which represented many of the ideas of the Revolution.
A genius, impotent to produce, but with the propensity of genius to revolt and the imperative craving of impotence to subject itself to outward authority--Friedrich Schlegel.
Götz represents the tragic fate of the man of genius who rises in revolt against a lukewarm and corrupt age.
Destitute of firm convictions, he could only conceive of two attitudes towards the principle of authority in matters of belief--wild revolt or unqualified submission.
His Saxon-Dutch nature was in instant revoltagainst influences so foreign and unnatural.
When the flame of revolt or general conspiracy burnt up again too extensively, high personages came on crusade to them.
And then he was compelled, from that footing, to see his own revolt as an unaccountable aberration, an eccentricity, an escapade unfortunately disastrous in its consequences.
That could no longer fret his nerves as in the old days it had done; he was fortified by the memory of his act of revolt and the months of entire independence he had enjoyed since his coming to London.
The country, as we have seen, was indignant at the treatment of Katharine and her daughter, but the instinct of loyalty to the King was strong, and there was no powerful centre around which revolt might crystallise.
I sealed it and addressed it, refusing to listen to anything but the fever and the revolt that burned through every fiber of my being.
All my revolt from the dead weight of emptiness in life was instinctively towards her.
As I see them now, Alan was revolt and Ben traditionalism in its most rigid New England form.
The idea of her being married is unbearable to me, and I revolt against the inhumanity and immorality of such enforced slavery.
Democracy was a revolt against the leadership of a class when that leadership had grown weak and was no longer natural and genuine.
England and Ireland in common with all other parts of Christendom before therevolt of Luther a few years before in Germany.
We have seen how, in 1392, the Yamana family was shattered in a revolt against the authority of the shogun, Yoshimitsu.
Thence he addressed to all the daimyo a secret circular, urging them to revolt and undertaking to make Tadanaga shogun instead of Iemitsu.
The revolt at Damascus would break out before the end of the month; before the end of the year, the whole of Syria and Lebanon would be in bloody chaos, and the Turkish army would be on the march.
Talking about the revolt of the colonies on Mars and Venus.
All about the revolt at Damascus, and the sack of Beirut, and the war between Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and how the Turkish army intervened, and the invasion of Pakistan.
Yes, Liege seems quiet enough," said the lieutenant; "but we expect a revolt to break out at any time.
Every unsuccessful attempt at assassination is viewed like an unsuccessful attempt at revolt on the part of the opposition, and injures our cause accordingly.
For the part played by this man in the revolt thus arising, he was sentenced to transportation, a penalty afterwards commuted to fine and imprisonment.
Gillot is certainly one of Watteau's earliest inspirers: his revolt against convention (even if revolt be too strong a word) influenced Watteau to the end of his life.
It ended prematurely by the outbreak of an abortive revolt in Prague, provoked by the military, which resulted in bloodshed and in the re-establishment of reaction and absolutism.
The colonists were hardly settled when the standard of revolt against Spain was again raised.
He was flying from a Mexican prison and had not heard of the revolt of the Americans.
The reason for this was never exactly known, but it was thought he feared a revolt on the part of the Ashraf.
Interference while therevolt was at its height could not perhaps be efficient--that is understood.
As I have already said, the first indication of a revolt occurred in our part of the country in April 1882.
These Sanjaks had sworn to revolt against Mahdiism, but had been betrayed.
The revolt had assumed large proportions, and the Emir Zeki had been despatched to Fashoda from Galabat, and had been heavily pressed by the infuriated blacks.
The company of young painters and writers are said to have been ignorant of Mr. Ruskin's writings when they began their revolt against the current classicism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revolt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
