A burst of laughter ran through the hall, as through the ample doorway, and down the broad stair, trooped the Motley train of the Lord of Misrule to open the Christmas revels.
Terrified urchins backed hastily away from his horrible jaws, and the Lord of Misrule gave a sudden and visible start.
The English people had become so impatient of the misrule of Cnut's sons, that the remembrance of Cnut's glories was set aside for the time being, and no more Danish kings were desired.
The noise, disorder, and misruleof the festivity are taking place outside the hospital.
At the same time a puncheon of beer or spirits is broached for gratuitous distribution, and a pretty spectacle of misrule is the consequence.
Should the Upper Canadians, from any continued injustice and misrule on the part of the mother country, be determined to separate, at all events it will not be to ally themselves with the Americans.
Economic distress and arbitrary misrule beset Virginia for sixteen years, culminating in a popular outbreak known as Bacon's rebellion.
The case of Florence after 1587, finally, shows how a wise ruler could so profit by experience as to restore prosperity where misrule had driven it out.
Spanish misrule rather than the change in the channels of trade that impoverished Italy in the sixteenth century.
We see these heroic days, and forgive much of Spanish misrule and avarice.
Were they fine-fibered enough to feel these losses, the sorrow we feel for their exit would be intensified; but their centuries of misrule have certified to their all but utter lack of any finer sentiment or sense of high responsibility.
We pass lightly their misrule of themselves with a tacit assumption of their genius having shaken and shocked their moral faculties as in some giant perturbation.
There is, in the present instance, no such cause, either in the degree of misrule or oppression complained of, or in the hopelessness of redress by constitutional means.
Misrule and oppression, to warrant the disruption of the free institutions of the Union of these States, should be great and lasting, defying all other remedy.
To-day Hungarians misrule the Roumanians of Transylvania; to-morrow a Greater Roumania maymisrule the Transylvania Hungarians.
With these relics were found the skull and horns of a bull, thereby identifying them with those victims of misrule who perished on the vigil of St. Catharine, in 1440.
He succeeded to princes weak, frivolous, prodigal, whose misrule had long been a curse to the land.
They also despatched envoys to the duke with explanations of their proceedings, stating further that it was Hagenbach's misrule alone to which protest was made; that they were not in revolt against Charles.
A dismal period of misrule ensued, which encouraged the Spanish generals, Pareja and Sanchez, to attempt the reconquest of Chili in 1813.
To such an extent, indeed, wad this misrule carried that neither the lives nor the property of the inhabitants were safe.
Why is it that there is this blessed insurgence against corporation misrule there, and hardly a trace of it here?
Can you blame us for standing in serried phalanx by white domination and against the misrule exampled in the early years of reconstruction, and for our own uncontaminated white blood and against fusion with the negro?
This decisive deliverance from the most monstrous and horrible misrule recorded among Anglo-Saxons was the achievement of the Ku Klux.
Just a year before the fight at St Charles, an American hero, Sam Houston, had wrested the huge state of Texas from the misrule of Mexico and founded a new and independent republic.
Such was the physician chosen by the British government to cure the cankers of misrule and disaffection in the body politic of Canada.
Nowhere on earth is there such a melancholy example of tyranny, rapacity and misrule as here.
The duped nation must drink its cup of misrule and blood.
In this they were justified by the misrule of Stephen, who had shown his utter unfitness to rule.
The sacred torch our fathers lit No wild misrule can ever quench; Still in our midst wise judges sit, Whom party passion cannot blench.
If wise statesmanship instead of party passion had ruled the hour, how easily could those twelve years of misrule in the South, and consequent disappointment and shame among its authors in the North, have been avoided!
Schofield's misrule that Missouri is in a worse condition than at any time since the rebellion; that he has failed to use the troops at his disposal to put down the rebellion.
In politics he was a Liberal, yet he saw that Liberal institutions, representative government, are by no means a sure and speedy remedy for misrule in all times and countries, as in our day simple folk are apt to suppose.
The sodden lords of misrule trembled in their stolen finery, and then the word went forth that they must "get" the vagabond who had stirred up the people against them.
This was the beginning of the mighty movement Jesus had launched for the overthrow of the empire of the Caesars and the emancipation of the crushed and miserable masses from the bestial misrule of the Roman tyrants.
The bloody revolution of a century and a quarter ago in France fills uncounted pages in the world's history, but its terrible warning to the lords of misrule and despoilers of the people has been in vain.
Never more shall the nations of Christendom bereave themselves of men, as they have done in centuries of oppression, misrule and persecution, and especially in the Time of Trouble.
Two of the causes that operate to "burn" the present "earth" are declared to be hunger, and the misrule of beastly governments.
Urmi was abandoned once more to the wretched misrule of the Persians; and the man who obtained chief authority was that same Mejid es Sultaneh of whom we have already spoken on page 215.
Never during the three hundred years of Austrian misrule were conditions so propitious for throwing off the shackles of oppression as now.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misrule" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
