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Example sentences for "instigated"

Lexicographically close words:
insteade; insted; instep; instid; instigate; instigates; instigating; instigation; instigations; instigator
  1. Instigated by wrath, both ladies deck themselves magnificently and arrive simultaneously to attend mass, escorted by imposing trains.

  2. On their way to their sleeping quarters that night, the Burgundians are jostled by some Huns, who, instigated by Kriemhild, are evidently seeking to provoke a quarrel.

  3. Meanwhile, instigated by Minerva, Diomedes attacks Mars, who, receiving a wound, emits such a roar of pain that both armies shudder.

  4. While all the men are thus congenially occupied, the Trojan women, instigated by Juno in disguise, set fire to the ships, so they need no longer wander over seas they have learned to loathe.

  5. In the meantime, Sir Mordred, the traitorous nephew of King Arthur, remained in England and instigated a rebellion against the king.

  6. Yet these men conspired to murder their benefactor, and instigated the crew to join in their execrable scheme.

  7. Sire, he affirms that your majesty is his only accomplice; the misery brought by you on Germany, he contends, instigated him to attempt the deed, and you ought to blame none but yourself.

  8. I shall assuredly know how to distinguish those who instigated the war from those who tried to avoid it.

  9. It is well known what prospects he held out in Berlin to the deputation of the Poles, and by what words and promises he instigated them to rise.

  10. Affliction has hitherto surrounded your beauty with the glory of a martyr; but mean men have been instigated to make you a penitent sinner--a Magdalen of the martyr.

  11. She has offended me too grievously, for it is she who has destroyed all my plans, and instigated her husband to assume a hostile attitude.

  12. The king is wandering about without shelter, and the queen will now regret with bitter tears that she instigated her husband to this senseless and unjust war.

  13. The devil has instigated him to cross our path; he shall have the devil's comfort for it.

  14. Ferguson was a stout, fearless, and bluff soldier, and instigated by the most unsparing hatred against all who took up the Whig cause.

  15. You said some saucy things to me just now, but I don't grudge your talking, because you see, I am an onaccountable hard sort of person to be instigated by speeching.

  16. Percy had instigated Violet's opposition, and she was in no charity with him.

  17. I tell you that he has been instigated by women: furies thirsting for revenge.

  18. Bonaparte, indeed, in his despatches to the Directory, stated that the Senate had instigated the insurrection; but that was not quite correct, and he could not wholly believe his own assertion.

  19. Thousands of peasants were instigated to rise under the pretext of appeasing the troubles of Bergamo and Brescia.

  20. This is markedly true of Picasso who instigated the movement.

  21. Vien it was who, suppressing the eroticism of Boucher, instigated the so-called classic revival founded on Graeco-Roman ideals.

  22. At first the natives in the district had been friendly, but instigated by the heathen chiefs, they had, after a time, refused provisions or assistance.

  23. It is the blessed gospel of peace which alone can put to flight debasing superstition, gross customs, murderous propensities, cruel dispositions, barbarism in its varied forms, and all the works of darkness instigated by Satan and his angels.

  24. At length he only agreed to give Louis his liberty, on condition of his accompanying him in person against, and employing his troops in subduing, the mutineers whom his intrigues had instigated to arms.

  25. La Valette asked me to call upon him to-day, and told me in the strictest confidence, though he did not pretend to have absolute proof of it, that the whole thing was instigated by Count Bismarck.

  26. This action caused considerable ill-feeling in France, and a universal belief existed that the Belgian Government had been instigated by Bismarck.

  27. The Spaniards had little confidence in the duration of this good understanding, for Faranda incessantly instigated the Emperor to commence hostilities on Manila, promising to reduce the whole of the islands to his obedience.

  28. In 1727 a rebellion, instigated it was said by the family of the Grand Lama, broke out, and the Prime Minister was killed.

  29. It instigated various burlesques (Moore's Diary, 459; his Songs and Ballads of the Rev.

  30. The Assembly spoke of it as a "barbarous and ungrateful attempt of the Cherokee Indians, instigated by our British enemies.

  31. It was commonly believed, and not without reason, that the Spaniards were deeply concerned in promoting the mischief, and by their secret influence and intrigues with slaves had instigated them to this massacre.

  32. He declared, that no personal toil or danger should discourage him from exerting himself towards freeing Carolina from such neighbours as had instigated their slaves to massacre them, and publicly protected them after such bloody attempts.

  33. They instigated them to bloodshed, and for that purpose furnished them with arms and ammunition.

  34. It removed troublesome neighbours out of their way, who had often instigated the savages against them, and made Augustine an asylum for fugitive slaves.

  35. For Menon had instigated his men to decide separately for themselves, and to execute their decision, before the others had given any answer.

  36. I don't see why you should go," said aunt Julia, who clearly perceived that her nephew had been instigated to pursue the marriage scheme since he had been in town.

  37. Had such been the case, the Solicitor-General would have instigated the young lord to go and try what he himself could do with the Countess and her daughter.

  38. That might have been so, or might not, but the saying instigated the tailor to further zeal and increased generosity.

  39. They were each ambitious to outdo the other in acts of daringness, and were thereby instigated to every kind of excess.

  40. The discontents created by this rapacious conduct of the governments, and the disregard shewn to the claims of the first settlers, instigated some to resistance and rebellion, and caused many to join the Buccaneers.

  41. The first extended and notable persecution of Christians under the official edict of a Roman emperor was that instigated by Nero, A.

  42. As evidence of this phase of the persecution, partly Jewish and partly pagan, instigated by Jews and participated in by others, the following quotation from Mosheim may suffice: 14.

  43. Instigated by a passion for truth, he exclaims in his first satire,-- "Truth!

  44. A prosecution for heresy which Boniface ordered, in March, 1295, against Frà Pagano di Pietra-Santa was doubtless instigated by the same spirit.

  45. When Solyman, instigated by Francis I of France, was invading Austria, Charles was deeply engaged in war against France in Italy, and could not send an army to meet the Ottomans in the field.

  46. It had instigated Hunyadi to cross the Danube, and on every occasion and in every possible manner had been their great enemy.

  47. These were not the product of religious fanaticism, as has often been suggested, but of deliberate policy, and were instigated by orders direct from the Porte, with the hope of inspiring terror in the minds of the subject races.

  48. The great crimes of our world, it would seem, are instigated by these passions, rather than hatred and malignity, like the massacre of St. Bartholomew and the atrocities of the French Revolution.

  49. The Romans, instead of settling the difficulties, instigated secretly Masinissa.

  50. Sejanus, however, instigated these proceedings, and worked upon the jealousy of the emperor.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instigated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.