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Example sentences for "rioters"

Lexicographically close words:
rint; riode; riot; rioted; rioter; rioting; riotous; riotously; riots; ripam
  1. But when a mob destroyed engine-looms, the army was used against the rioters and two of them were hanged.

  2. Sometimes mobs would break open the prisons to release fellow rioters or take action against strike breakers or informers.

  3. The rioters were seldom punished more than a fining or whipping of the leaders and action was taken to satisfy their legitimate grievances.

  4. He had to lead the rioters and causers of injuries to others, hold them there until he could bring him before the nearest justice.

  5. Two justices or more had the authority to arrest the rioters and send a record of it to the assizes and to the Privy Council.

  6. The rioters charged upon the latter as soon as they appeared.

  7. In at least one instance the violence of the rioters rose to the height of treason.

  8. The King and Queen were insulted by mobs in the Park, some of the rioters even openly threatening the Queen with death, because she was believed to be favorable to the anti-Reformers.

  9. The ships which brought the tea to Boston were boarded and seized by a formidable body of rioters disguised as native savages, and the tea was thrown into the sea.

  10. Mansfield, Lord, condemns general warrants; insists on the necessity of a bill of indemnity; vindicates the supremacy of Parliament; his house is burnt by the rioters in 1780.

  11. You can hardly imagine that I quieted these turbulent rioters with a lullaby.

  12. The rioters do their work with great composure, and though there are knots of people in every corner, all execrating the authors of such outrages, nobody dares oppose them.

  13. The rioters were headed by Lord George Gordon, a crazy enthusiast.

  14. The rioters not having succeeded in effecting an entrance, his grim metal darlings--the machines--had escaped damage.

  15. The rioters had never been so met before.

  16. It was then explained that some police intelligence about the rioters of whom he was in pursuit had, that morning, called him away to Birmingham, and probably a fortnight might elapse ere he returned.

  17. The rioters were assembled in front of the closed yard gates, and a single figure stood within, apparently addressing them.

  18. Weeks will elapse before the rioters can again rally, or plan any other attempt; and I am much mistaken if Moore and Mr. Helstone will not take advantage of last night's outbreak to quell them altogether.

  19. And accordingly the fiercest blaze that had yet glowed, the loudest rattle that had yet been heard, burst from the counting-house front when the mass of rioters rushed up to it.

  20. The inevitable result of offering them opposition would be such bloodshed as the rioters outside had no conception of.

  21. His father continued to exhort the rioters to calmness and caution, especially those who had not yet paid for their drinks.

  22. The rioters caught and re-echoed the cry, mingled with other cries,' "Vive la Republique!

  23. We may trust to the confreres of our council to enlist Poles and Italians; Gaspard le Noy will turn out the volunteer rioters at his command.

  24. Mr. Drummond, the attorney-general for Lower Canada, being a Catholic, was also accused in being dilatory in bringing the rioters to justice.

  25. There were no proceedings taken against the rioters and incendiarists, this being an evident sign that many of those in power secretly sympathized with the movement.

  26. In November the trial of the captured rioters took place at Montreal and on March 30th they were discharged.

  27. On February 4th news was received that the rioters in large force were approaching the city.

  28. While the cannon with which the rioters were threatened on January 29, were, so to speak, still trained ready for firing, a charity ball attracted all Paris to the Jardin d'Hiver.

  29. I am going to let the rioters alone at the rendezvous they arranged for themselves.

  30. It was this battalion chief who cleared the Palace of the Chamber, which the rioters had invaded at six o'clock in the morning.

  31. The head of the column of rioters was debouching from the Rue de Bourgogne.

  32. And the rioters pushed up Park Street, a noisy stream, with Felix still in the midst of them, though he was laboring hard to get his way to the front.

  33. Immediately after stacking arms, a lot of rioters who had just overcome their guards, seized our stacks.

  34. He made a memorable speech standing upon the City Hall steps, in which he addressed the rioters as "my friends.

  35. And when he had spoken, all the three rioters ran till they came to the tree.

  36. But the proudest of the three rioters answered him roughly, asking him why he kept himself all wrapped up except his face, and how so old a fellow as he had managed to keep alive so long?

  37. And so one morning it befel that three of these rioters were sitting over their drink in a tavern, long before the bell had rung for nine o'clock prayers.

  38. They were empowered to imprison and punish all rioters and other offenders, and such as they should find by indictment or suspicion to be reputed thieves or vagabonds, and to take sureties for good behaviour from persons of evil fame.

  39. Then, spinning the car around, Quong set it down hard on a clump of rioters as close as possible to the struggling group around the two Terrans.

  40. They drove the rioters from the steps or killed them there, they wiped out those who had gotten into the semicircle of the storm-porch.

  41. The words of the rioters were prophetic, for just as Canal Street was reached a car on the Villere line came along.

  42. In addition to the Negroes who suffered from the violence of the mob there were several patients treated at the hospital during the night who had been with the rioters and had been struck by stray bullets or injured in scuffles.

  43. In his excitement and dismay he promised the mob that the bread-rate should for the future be fixed at two sous; the rioters rushed to Paris.

  44. The rioters paid no attention to his appeal, but continued their assaults, whereupon General Brinton gave orders to his men to fire at those who were handling the cannon, and several of them were killed and wounded.

  45. While the rioters had by this time been somewhat restrained by the resolute action of the committee, yet they were, although dispersed as a body, holding meetings and still breathing sullen threats of further outrage and murder.

  46. The banks were threatened, and the city seemed about to be pillaged, the business part of the city being filled with bands of rioters who uttered threats of violence and murder.

  47. When the rioters beheld their associates attacked, their rage passed all control, and the troops were closed in upon and driven into the roundhouse.

  48. Assured that her mistress was safe from further molestation, Madeleine Blanchet hurried back to the house, which the rioters were looting, and saved many treasures from falling into their hands.

  49. The rioters boldly occupied the streets without arrest and continued their work until Sunday.

  50. The mob hesitated some time before attacking these houses again, several of the rioters declaring that they did not care to endanger their lives.

  51. At the same time other rioters stormed the office of The Philanthropist and broke up the press.

  52. A large number of rioters were killed in encounters with the police, which sometimes assumed the form of pitched battles and closely resembled civil war.

  53. The rioters moved about in large organised bodies, and their anarchical passions were deliberately inflamed by the writings of unscrupulous men like Cobbett and Carlile.

  54. At Derby the rioters actually stormed the city jail, releasing the prisoners, and were only repelled in their attack on the county jail by the fire of a military force.

  55. After making one charge and dispersing the populace for the moment, the cavalry were sent back to their barracks, and when one troop was recalled on the following (Sunday) morning, the rioters were all but masters of the city.

  56. He saw the rioters throw some of the free labourers overboard.

  57. Many a man fell backward, half stunned by blows from marline-spikes and gun-stocks—though as yet only a few shots were fired—and more than one of the rioters narrowly escaped death by drowning.

  58. But they had been captured by the rioters at Moorara; made to carry arms and stand in front, where they were nearly being shot.

  59. London was once more quiet, and only the rioters who had been captured, were left to be dealt with by the law.

  60. In the same way, even before the destruction of Newgate, the house of Justice Hyde, whose activity the rioters resented, had also been stripped of its furniture, which was burnt in front of the door.

  61. It should be added here that the excesses of the rioters did not end with the burning of Newgate; they did other mischief.

  62. Meanwhile the rioters fed the flames with fresh fuel, and snatching burning brands from the fire, cast them on to the roof and over the external wall into the wards and yards within.

  63. At one time the town was convulsed with terror at a report that the rioters intended to open the gates of Bedlam, and let loose gangs of raving lunatics to range recklessly about.

  64. It is impossible to absolve him from responsibility for the outrages committed by the rioters in 1780, although he was doubtless shocked at their excesses.

  65. Dickens gives a prominent place among the rioters to John Dennis the hangman, who himself was, as the records state, sentenced to be hanged for his complicity in these dark doings.


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