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Example sentences for "mutineer"

Lexicographically close words:
mutilated; mutilates; mutilating; mutilation; mutilations; mutineers; mutinie; mutinied; mutinies; mutinous
  1. Frenchman, who went down heavily, but rose on one arm, and as I clung to the man in the scuppers I could see the chief mutineer clearly.

  2. The foremost mutineer reached it, tried the handle, and threw his weight against the panels.

  3. But the captain was engaged with a mutineer who had climbed up in the way Neidlinger had attempted.

  4. Of the fidelity and attachment of these simple-minded creatures an instance is afforded in the affecting story which is told, in the first Missionary Voyage of the Duff, of the unfortunate wife of the reputed mutineer Mr. Stewart.

  5. Mrs. Fraser, widow of Major Fraser, who had been killed at Meerut by the mutineer sappers.

  6. True, the princes may have divided them, they may have bribed their mutineer officers with some, but, a true list may be in the hands of these Crown officers here.

  7. The mutineer was the bowsman of the mate, and when fast to a fish, it was his duty to sit next him, while Radney stood up with his lance in the prow, and haul in or slacken the line, at the word of command.

  8. In each case the mutineer was the stroke, and the spes gregis.

  9. To expel a mutineer may ruin the chance of victory for an impending race, but it will be best for the club in the long run, and will be likely to save many a defeat.

  10. Of course not, you wouldn't be a mutineer if you did.

  11. A mutineer is always a disagreeable person," continued Rivers, looking with his pleasant eyes full at the child.

  12. There he was left, with a few more whose crimes had placed them beyond the hope of pardon; and that was the last which Doorga Sing saw or heard of the European general of the mutineer artillery.

  13. Doorga Sing promised to find for me one or two other mutineer sepoys who knew more about this European and his antecedents than he himself did.

  14. The incipient mutineer was more outraged than ever, then, at what he denounced as the partiality shown the captain's table over the other tables in the ship.

  15. The humbled mutineer smelt it, tasted it, and returned to his seat.

  16. The mutineer no longer desired the success of the expedition.

  17. Just as the mutineer had finished threatening Friday, something whizzed through the air in unpleasant proximity to his head.

  18. This was another injustice that the mutineer declared he would not submit to.

  19. As with Mutineer once, he had dropped his bridle, but there was no use in uttering, as he had, then, the trisyllable which had reduced the horse to order.

  20. Hout of the way," cried the groom, to Peter, for Mutineer was waltzing round the path in a way that suggested "no thoroughfare.

  21. There was a moment's wild grinding of horse's feet on the slippery road and then Mutineer had settled to his long, tremendous stride.

  22. But Mutineer did, and pricked up his ears.

  23. He said nothing to groom nor horse, but Mutineer understood the sudden change in the reins, even before he felt that maddening prick of the spurs.

  24. Peter and Mutineer felt happy and proud in their strength, and Leonore and Fly-away glorified them for it.

  25. But Mutineer had tossed them over his head.

  26. Mutineer checked his great racing stride, broke to a canter; dropped to a trot; altered that to a walk, and stopped.

  27. It had taken Mutineer twenty seconds to come to a stand, and for ten seconds after, no change in the condition occurred.

  28. But before they had half swung the circle, he was deep in thought again, and Mutineer was taking his own pace.

  29. Mutineer could not talk articulately, but all true lovers of horses understand their language.

  30. So after a hundred yards' run, he drew Mutineer down to the mare's pace, about thirty feet behind her.

  31. Peter suddenly came back to affairs earthly to find Mutineer just settling into a gait not permitted by Park regulations.

  32. He shook himself presently, and set Mutineer at a sharp canter round the larger circle of the bridle path.

  33. It's Mutineer has the devil in him always, sir.

  34. If the chief had been a mutineer he would no doubt have been shot at once; but as he had never been in the British service, Captain Daly decided to take him on to Peshawar for judgment by Sir John Lawrence.

  35. The mutineer fell, tripping up the man following him, and giving Ahmed the fraction of a second that was necessary to slip in behind the corporal and bar the door.

  36. Coming back by and by to secure the unlimbered gun, they saw another mutineer coolly walking off with the pistol which Hills had hurled at a rebel's head early in the fight.

  37. He smiled broadly; he liked this mutineer and ex-convict.

  38. She would have lost many more were it not that her onset demoralized the French gunners, while the cheers of the British sailors aboard the Beatitude gave confidence to their mutineer comrades.

  39. Finding force unavailing, the mutineer had recourse to other means.

  40. His name is Bucklaw--a mutineer condemned to death, the villain who tried to kidnap Mistress Leveret.

  41. Every available mutineer was equipped and marched down the road, and the captured pieces were replaced from the magazine.

  42. In a few minutes the men were dismissed, and the arm of the mutineer was next day amputated.

  43. You forget what he is--a mutineer and a murderer, and no one should remember that as you should.

  44. It was not the look of a criminal, whatever the man might be- -mutineer and murderer.

  45. He had the common sense to know that Dyck Calhoun, ex-convict and mutineer as he was, had personal power in the island, which he as governor had not been able to get, and Dyck had not abused that power.

  46. Hurricane Island, as the mutineer had dubbed it, lay under the broad face of the sun, and the cascade sparkled at my feet on its run to the sea.

  47. She was frankly staring at the mutineer who made these astounding proposals.

  48. Oh, we're in no hurry," said the mutineer cheerfully, and moved away.

  49. I reflected that the mutineers would not be here, for it was evident that the door was locked, and no mutineer would secure himself in a cabin in the midst of his triumph.

  50. I can wait, of course," said the mutineer with cool irony.

  51. Two or more shots rang out, and the arch-mutineer lifted his left hand slowly to his breast.

  52. Some one helped me to my feet, and I saw the mutineer drop with a sword point through him; and then we ran, I between two of the others, one of whom I was conscious was Ellison.

  53. The mutineer and his treacherous confederate were gone, and I must make the best of my time to follow them.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mutineer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agitator; anarchist; arise; brawler; extremist; insubordinate; insurgent; malcontent; maverick; mutineer; mutiny; overthrow; rebel; revolt; revolutionary; revolutionist; revolutionize; riot; rioter; rise; strike; subversive; subvert; traitor