The anti-slavery meetings held there were often disturbed by mobs that would hold the most gifted orator at bay hour after hour, and would listen only to the songs of the Hutchinson family.
The strikes and mobs and settled discontent of the masses warn us that, although we forget and neglect their interests and our duties, we do it at the peril of all.
Executions were redoubled; soldiers and mobs devastated Greek settlements on the Bosphorus; and on the most sacred day of the Greek Church a blow was struck which sent a thrill over Eastern Europe.
A few days after the publication of this manly rebuke, he wrote an indignantly sarcastic article upon the mobs which were at this time everywhere summoned to "put down the Abolitionists.
But furious armedmobs attacked the prison and shot down both.
The police told off for this duty found doors shut and barricaded against them or defended by fanatical peasants and mobs of shrieking women, so that they had often to be stormed and broken up by the military.
The proposed capitulation, which great mobs had been for weeks long savagely demanding at the hands of the burgomaster, was now ascribed to the burgomaster's unblushing corruption.
On the next day the Norwegians assembled in the streets, and took leave of the citizens, who collected in mobs round them, while the sailors and populace uttered angry cries for revenge.
The anti-slavery meetings were often broken in upon by mobs and sometimes broken up.
Their enemies accused them of tempting slaves across the Ohio, in order to give them their freedom, and in a little while the rage against them broke out in mobs and riots.
These were satires of the old proslavery spirit which retarded the reconstruction of the South and harried the freedmen by mobs and lynchings.
Those of you who can express militancy by facing party mobs at Cabinet Ministers' meetings, when you remind them of their falseness to principle--do so.
We have faced hostile mobs at street corners, because we were told that we could not have that representation for our taxes that men have won unless we converted the whole of the country to our side.
Criticism from gentlemen who do not hesitate to order out armies to kill and slay their opponents, who do not hesitate to encourage party mobs to attack defenceless women in public meetings--criticism from them hardly rings true.
All through that day mobs in all parts of the city assaulted any white man they met, houses were invaded and windows smashed, and on two further occasions the police had to fire.
Thereafter, the strike rapidly collapsed, although martial law had to be proclaimed and, before quiet was restored, some sharp conflicts still took place between federal troops and mobs at Sacramento and other points in California.
In the suburbs of Chicago the mobs burned numerous cars and did much damage to other property.
Since then, not less than one hundred and fifty have been known to have met violent death at the hands of cruel bloodthirsty mobs during the past nine months.
This, too, in the face of the fact that only one-third of the 728 victims to mobs have been charged with rape, to say nothing of those of that one-third who were innocent of the charge.
The day when mobs can successfully cow the Negro to willing slavery is past.
Often inspired and sometimes led by citizens of repute who were "not averse to a little rioting," the mobs were recruited from the quays and the grogshops, and once in action were difficult to control.
If matters had been allowed to work in a natural way, without the interference of mobs or legislators, the Chinese would have driven the Italians to better employments, and all menial labor would, in time, be done by the Mongolians.
The greatest danger in a Republic is a mob, and as long as States inflict the penalty of death, mobswill follow the example.
Berlin was agitated by mobs to the verge of anarchy.
Throughout the country in all the large towns there were mobs and angry meetings and serious disturbances.
Why, follow Fortune,[582] as mobs always do, and hate him that is condemned?
There are mobs at the doors to see her get into her chair; and people go early to get places at the theatre when it is known that she will be there.
Nine times in ten it fraternizes with, or is cowed or beaten by the savage mobs which it is called upon to kill.
Suppose that twenty-five years ago (the longer ago the better) two or three criminal mobs in succession had been exterminated in that way, "as the law provides.
Mobs have been known to slink away ignominiously when confronted by one or two loyal citizens.
For mobs are courageous only through mass numbers; or when under strong and aggressive leadership.
We believe it germane to the matter under discussion to add that not only feuds, but mobs and the like, are, and ever have been, the direct outgrowth of a lack of confidence of the people in their courts.
For months previous to our giving up our arms to General Lucas' army, we heard little else than rumors of mobs collecting in different places, and threatening our people.
You think you would have been delighted to have shown your integrity in the days of mobs and traitors.
Mobs were organized around Kirtland, who were enraged against us, ready to destroy us.
Mobs are common in this country; it is getting so that there is no safety anywhere in this land.
They collected in mobs to break up my meetings, but did not carry their designs into execution.
Brother Kimball has had the privilege of living and dying in his own house in peace; and has not been followed up by mobs and massacred.
Nothing is to be heard of but mobs collecting on every side.
Mobs gathered in the London streets, and persons suspected of being Germans, or with German sympathies, were attacked.
A bitter feeling against England was at once aroused, Turkish mobs proceeded to attack the British stores and British subjects, and attempts were even made against the British embassy in Constantinople, and the British consulate at Smyrna.
He took those very mobs that had been arrayed against us, and enrolled them as his troops, thus legalizing their acts.
By this edict the Governor virtually converted the mobs that had been plundering the Saints into the state militia, and gave them full license to continue the war on the Saints, which they did in the most brutal manner.
He knew that the mob had not only passed inflammatory resolutions, threatening extermination to the Mormons, but that they had actually assembled armed mobs and commenced hostilities against us.
Mobs were therefore assembled and the work of violence inaugurated by kidnapping, whipping and otherwise abusing the Saints living in out-lying districts of Nauvoo.
But he had his eyes and heart fixed upon the better riches, those which moth and rust could not corrupt, neither mobs break through nor steal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mobs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
