Popular feeling ran very high upon the subject, and there seemed a danger of Schiffer's being mobbed in the street, when an incident occurred which threw a very different light upon the matter.
He must have expressed himself freely, for he was mobbed by the sailors in the square of Bonifacio.
On the fourteenth the travelers were at Marseilles; in that friendly democratic city they were nearly mobbed as aristocrats because Elisa wore feathers in her hat.
Accustomed as he was to being mobbed by enthusiastic students and admiring friends, Wayne could not but feel extreme embarrassment at the reception accorded him now.
Then, next morning, they brought the apparatus to the judges' pavilion, where for the remainder of the summer it was mobbed by judges and scientists.
The speaker was still talking, urging and insisting that the prisoners should be mobbed at once, that they should not be permitted to live.
The grove of timber was filled with men and boys looking over, expecting to see the prisoners mobbed every minute.
So it was when Priestley was mobbed at Birmingham; so it was when Wesley and his friends were mobbed in all parts of England.
So it was also in America when the office of the "Philanthropist" was destroyed in Cincinnati; when halls and churches were burned in Philadelphia; when Miss Crandall was mobbed in Connecticut; when Lovejoy was killed at Alton.
But it may be doubted whether she was in such danger of being mobbed or murdered as she and her editor suppose.
She had been ridiculed, denounced and mobbed for years; and, for listening to her on Sunday, men and women had been expelled from church.
She had at this time commenced that never-to-be-forgotten series of anti-slavery conventions which were mobbed in every town from Buffalo to Albany.
The Troy Times said: The last time we heard Miss Anthony speak was in 1861, shortly after the election of Lincoln when, it will be remembered, she was mobbed from city to city.
In towns where there were not enough people to create a disturbance, the meetings passed off quietly, but they were mobbed and broken up in every city from Buffalo to Albany.
My ever-grumbling men mobbed me again, clamouring for food, saying, as they eyed my goats, I lived at ease and overlooked their wants.
I have known him to prevent negroes from being mobbed for crime, even as they were recently mobbed for no crime by white men in Omaha, in Chicago, in Indiana and even here in the Nation's capital.
As Mr. Hawthorne delays to go to London, London is beginning to come to him, for Mr. Holland says he must inevitably be mobbed in England.
Had a Baptist editor been mobbed on the campus of a Catholic college they would have howled a lung out about Popish tyrannys stood on their heads and fanned themselves with their own shirt-tails.
Here he paid tribute to British freedom, contrasted it with the domination of the slave holders, and instanced the fact that in Connecticut a woman had been mobbed and imprisoned for teaching coloured girls to read.
In the meantime the Jews continue despised, maltreated, and mobbed every Good Friday, but nevertheless almost indispensable.
The Duke of Wellington was mobbed in the streets of London and his windows were broken while his wife lay dead in the house; but the "Iron Duke" never faltered in his course, or swerved a hair's breadth from his purpose.
Even our own revered Washington was mobbed in the streets because he would not pander to the clamor of the people and reject the treaty which Mr. Jay had arranged with Great Britain.
I think I would rather be mobbed than indulge in any amusement I know of," he continued.
An acquaintance of ours, then at Corte, had, a few weeks before, been nearly mobbed by the elder part of the community when he attempted to cut the rope and offered to thrash the children.
The town itself has remarkably few smells for Corsica, and strangers can walk about without being followed and mobbed by juvenile savages.
Sanborn and others, who were mobbed exactly as Garrison was mobbed thirty years earlier.
There is no more desirable honor than to be mobbed in a good cause.
Those who spoke for the slave weremobbed by Northern lovers of the "Union.
The Duke of Wellington, who had been the day before mobbed in London, also reaped a little harvest of returning popularity from the assault, and so far the outrages have done rather good than harm.
Auburn is the house in which he resided at the time he was mobbed by four thousand Disunionists.
Some might laugh at our having to appeal to our faith because we have been mobbed on pretences which make us blush to think what nonsense they are, and because a rival has come to supplant me in my profession.
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