Darius was first incited to attack the Greeks in Europe by a homesick Greek physician at his court, who wanted at any cost to be back in Greece.
The two boys who are tortured are 'bullies,' that is the excuse of their tormentors, and these latter have further been incited to the orgy by a clergyman.
Danton incited the crowd against the prisoners, Marat saw the danger of a massacre.
It was he who incited Catherine the Second of Russia and Maria Theresa of Austria, whose respect he had earned by depriving her of Silesia, to a joint attack upon Poland.
He was said to be a tiresome false prophet, who had incited Yemen, the rich province of Southern Arabia, to rebel against the King of Kings.
But both Mr. Horrabin, who has drawn these maps, and I, who have incited him to do so, have preferred to err on the timid side.
And he said: 'O king, I did this to thy felicity and to my own misfortune, and the causer of this was the god of the Hellenes, who incited me to march with my army.
By keeping the death of Padilla fresh in the minds of the citizens, she incited them to make a resolute defence.
Inspired by patriotism, she addressed the Argive women and incitedthem to defend their homes.
Chitratahma also gave himself out as a descendant of Cyaxares, and incited Sagartia to rebellion; and Frada headed a revolt in Magiana.
By their great intercourse and universal commerce, they introduced the products of distant cultured countries to the most backward races, and thus incited them to creations of their own.
All six prisoners were charged with having incited the people to civil war, and with having committed acts of destruction, massacre, and pillage on Egyptian territory.
Arabi, Toulba, Mahmoud Sami, Mahmoud Fehmi, Omar Rahmi, and Ali Fehmi were charged with having incited the Egyptians to arm against the Government of the Khedive.
Therefore it could have been only the interests of their Church which incited them to the course they pursued.
His especial duty, however, was to watch and follow the extraordinary Contessa della Torre, who rode with the troops, and by her example incited the Italians to prodigies of valour.
Vasari says that when the prints of Durer were first brought into Italy, they incited the painters there to elevate themselves in that branch of art, and to make his works their models.
The Indians of New Hampshire sued for peace, after a long and bloody warfare with the English colonists, incited by the French.
GETA, emperor of Rome, slain by his brother Caracalla, who was incited to the deed by jealousy.
He incited the European powers to undertake a crusade, which was joined by Frederick of Germany, who had been twice excommunicated.
It is said that Pizarro incited his followers to this dangerous enterprise by the singular argument, that this main design was the propagation of the catholic faith, without injuring any person.
She was the mistress of Charles VII, of France, distinguished for her beauty, strength of mind, and the influence she possessed over the king, whom she incited to deeds of glory.
In March, a body of Samian revolutionists landed in Chios and incited the islanders to rise against the Turk.
In distant Annam the death of Emperor Gia-Long, followed by a bloody struggle for the succession between his sons, incited the people to a national demonstration against the encroachments of the French in Tonquin.
The devil that wanted himincited him to play with me and tell me lies about my wife.
Gay is represented as a man easily incited to hope, and deeply depressed when his hopes were disappointed.
We have incited the slumbering passions of this people, and by offering to their eyes the sight of European luxury and European over-civilisation, have aroused in them desires to which they were formerly strangers.
Almost all wars have, for centuries past, been waged in the interests of England, and almost all have been incited by England.
The complications in the Balkans and in Turkey, which England has incited and fostered by the most despicable methods, have simply the one object in view--to bring us into mortal conflict with Austria and Germany.
I remembered too, that many of the colonists had been unjustly incited against my course; but in the retrospect my heart did not condemn me.
Finally the Spaniards deliberately and treacherously incited the Indians to war against the Americans, while protesting to the latter that they were striving to keep the savages at peace.
The league of the nobles against him only incited him to fresh barbarities.
The Americans had taken possession of Mobile, which they as well as the Spanish claimed; but the Creek Indians were incited by the Spaniards to engage in hostilities.
Incited by this example, Eumenes, King of Pergamus, established out of rivalry a similar library in his metropolis.
When Count Boniface, incited by the intrigues of the patrician Aetius, invited Genseric, the King of the Vandals, into Africa, that barbarian found in the discontented sectaries his most effectual aid.
The speech delivered by me at the Haymarket, and which I repeated before the jury is a matter of record and undisputed, and I challenge any one to show therein that I incited any one to acts of violence.
McShane, that Spies and Fielden incited the mob to attack McCormick's Reaper Works and the non-union employes on May 3.
As they could have done nothing to prevent it, it onlyincited them to fresh exertions to escape from the power of the savages.
Juries of men, incited and sustained by public opinion, have actually deprived every adult male American of the right to live.
In that case, also, the insurance companies had successfully denied their liability on the ground that the cow, manifestly incited by some supernatural power, had unlawfully influenced the result of a wager to which she was not a party.
This incited my reflections on the scheme which I had formed.
My father's opposition to my schemes was incited by a sincere though unenlightened desire for my happiness.
I had set myself a hard task, but its very difficulties only incited me to greater effort.
It was the manifestation of that unreasoning brute instinct to torture and kill dominant in the lower order of men, and which when encouraged by numbers and incited by the chance of a helpless victim, finds its active expression in a lynching.
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