Numerous arrests are made, and a few of the local firebrands are ultimately prosecuted and convicted.
It is true I have slain a count of the empire, burnt and plundered the church of St. Dominic, flung firebrands into your bigoted city, and brought down the powder-magazine upon the heads of devout Christians.
Stones and firebrands are hurled up from below; the windows fall in with a crash; the castle takes fire.
Hast thou not flung firebrands into our godly city, and brought down the powder-magazine upon the heads of devout Christians?
Among that fleet of boats and flats that perished by our firebrands or hatchets, there were two that belonged to my excellent old uncle, colonel E.
So soon as he had done with that foe, he crushed anarchy and saved the capital from the firebrands of the desperate Samnites and revolutionists.
Do not see your children the slaves of Satan here, and the firebrands of hell for ever, if any diligence of yours may contribute to prevent it.
And therefore it belongeth to your gravity and experience to call them unto unity, charity, and peace, and to keep them from proving firebrands in the church, and rashly overrunning their understandings and the truth.
His wife was one of the eight "firebrands of hell" whom Mr. Noyes saw swung off on the 22d of September.
When, on the fearful 22d of September, Mr. Noyes stood looking at the execution, he exclaimed that it was a sad thing to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there!
With a cry The foe press on; these fill the trench below, These to the topmost towers the blazing firebrands throw.
Here scaling ladders in a trice they rear, And firebrands suddenly and flames appear.
The day was come, the fated time complete, When Turnus' insults bade the Mother rise And ward the firebrands from her sacred fleet.
Morn shall see the bay Swarm with their ships, and all the shore and sky Red with fierce firebrands and the flames.
Each one Toils to defend; these blazing firebrands bring, And fetch the flying shafts, and fit them to the string.
He, the Sovereign of the seas, Himself the firebrands and the will supplies.
These hands the firebrands at his feet had cast, And filled with flames his hatches.
Aeneas thunders in arms, and threatens to overthrow and hurl to destruction the high Italian fortress; and already firebrands are flying on our roofs.
I should have borne firebrands into his camp and filled his decks with flame, blotted out father and son and race together, and flung myself atop of all.
According to him the twofirebrands are, on the one hand, the bishops of Lower Languedoc, and on the other, MM.
They need not be very numerous, for in a place full of combustible matter a few firebrands suffice to start the conflagration.
Utterances of this kind, at such a time, are firebrands thrown upon fear and hunger to kindle the flames of rage and cruelty.
Having caught him, they tied him up with pandanus leaves and frightened him by poking firebrands at him.
At the command of the dictator the whole line advanced; the firebrands that were discharged are partly caught up; others are wrested by force: the armies on either side are now armed with fire.
With torches and firebrands they had burned Holly Springs to the ground, and had destroyed all the army stores.
There is what the curse of secession has done for us; there is what Wade Hampton and the other politicalfirebrands have done for South Carolina.
They, at last, rose everywhere in open insurrection against their masters, and the firebrands which they hurled into the dwellings of the whites served as the bridal torches to their espousal of liberty.
The house of Madame Tascher de la Pagerie was one of the abodes in which these firebrands fell.
In order to melt the silver, at the sides of the muffle are laid bricks, upon which the charcoal is placed, and burning firebrands are put on the bridge.
The ditch with fagots fill'd, the daring foe Toss'd firebrands to the steepy turrets throw.
The sea with ships will soon be cover'd o'er, And blazingfirebrands kindle all the shore.
Ent'ring the court, with shouts the skies they rend; And flamingfirebrands to the roofs ascend.
Some firebrands throw, some flights of arrows send; And some with darts, and some with stones defend.
For AEneas is about to destroy the city, and the firebrands are cast upon the roofs.
First they brake down the altars, that they might takefirebrands therefrom; and King Latinus fled from the place.
John's advisers regarded liberal principles as dangerous to civil order, and considered all French and North Americans as firebrands whose presence in Brazil might start the flame of revolution.
The Buenos Aires men were well supplied with muskets, and the women and boys rained down stones, bricks, and firebrands on the masses crowding the pavements below.
The Hector come from out the fight in arms Achilles lost, The Hector that on Danaan decks the Phrygian firebrands tost.
For Aeneas is about to destroy the city, and the firebrands are cast upon the roofs.
They hurl the firebrands at them from afar, but they are holding their shields and their swords naked.
Afterward, they enter into the manor and snatch great blazing firebrands and fling them one at another.
A certain section of the juniors, led by Winnie Osborne and Joyce Colman, the firebrands of the Third form, offered great resistance to the authority of the monitresses, and put every possible obstacle in their way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "firebrands" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
