Similar outbursts occurred at St. Andrews, and when Knox returned to Edinburgh, civil war seemed imminent.
The people arose and slaughtered sheep wholesale in one of those unwise and blind, but not unnatural, outbursts of sabotage by which the proletariat now and then seeks to destroy the wealth that accentuates their poverty.
In all but its earliest outbursts in the fourteenth, and perhaps the fifteenth century, plague had been peculiarly an infection of the poor, being known as "the poor's plague.
The sieges and occupations of the Civil Wars in the middle of the 17th century, which undoubtedly were the occasion of the last outbursts of plague in many of the towns, were a brief experience, followed by unbroken tranquillity.
In spite of these outbursts however it would be unjust to look on the temper of the new Parliament as a mere temper of revenge.
His wildest outbursts of passion are broken by long passages of cool argument.
The images of the "Pilgrim's Progress" are the images of prophet and evangelist; it borrows for its tenderer outbursts the very verse of the Song of Songs and pictures the Heavenly City in the words of the Apocalypse.
Therefore they suffered patiently, knowing that they suffered justly, and knowing also that they would not suffer long; for the judge's outbursts were as brief as they were fierce, and he bore no malice afterwards.
Sir Gilbert Hawkesby was, on the whole, a good-tempered man; but he was liable to sudden outbursts of anger of a violent kind.
Something of this bitterness was to find its way into the impassioned outbursts of Robertson and the philosophic irony of Gilbert.
The dilemma changes, and its two new aspects are personified by two women, whose rivalry has in it nothing of the banality, or of the vulgar outbursts of jealousy, to which we are too often treated in the theatre.
We shall find no vehement outbursts of passion, breaking loose from the fetters of sacred convention.
The slight dramatic form binds together his pencillings from the margins of 'Paradise Lost' or Wordsworth's poems very pleasantly, and enables him to give additional effect to vivacious outbursts of praise or censure.
His various outbursts of wrath amuse us at best when they do not bore, even though they take the outward form of philosophy or statesmanship.
But he never cared to bring it into harmony with any definite system of thought, or let his outbursts of temper transport him into settled antagonism with accepted principles.
But further outbursts of gratitude and mirth were interrupted by the arrival of the warriors, whom he had gathered together during his scouting expedition and whom he commanded to appear before the white master.
Mr. Bigelow saw Mrs. Dickens as she really was--a commonplace woman endowed with the temper of a vixen, and disposed to outbursts of actual violence when her jealousy was roused.
But still she could not give him up, nor could he give her up, though there were frightful scenes between them--times when he cruelly reproached her and when her native melancholy deepened into outbursts of despair.
Capable of every style of art, it was adapted to all the feelings of nature, but particularly to outbursts of grief, joy, or despair.
Maria Felicia Garcia was a wayward and willful child, but so generous and placable that her fierce outbursts of rage were followed by the most fascinating and winning contrition.
At his first appearance on the boards of the Odéon, he was saluted with the most insulting outbursts of laughter and smothered ejaculations of "Why, he's a hunchback!
Impulse leads criminals to commit evil actions against other men; but how often normal persons have to regret thoughtless acts and nervous outbursts which have sad consequences to themselves!
But afterwards, after unavailingoutbursts of anger, he had learned to understand that humility profited him most and could alone enable him to endure the withdrawal of the divine assistance.
The merest trifle would give rise to these noisy outbursts of gaiety in the very midst of his wonted surliness.
But Brother Archangias began to indulge in fresh outbursts of gaiety.
All these outbursts have been carefully recorded and commented upon, for naturally the scientists of a great city like Naples were intensely interested in the passing phases of their own volcano.
The eruption of April 1906 has, in fact, surpassed all previous outbursts within living memory, and it may probably be reckoned amongst the most violent of all hitherto recorded.
He was often irritated, querulous, and subject to outbursts of profanity.
He had always been of a violent temper and his outbursts had been followed by petit mal.
This gave rise to some stormy outbursts of popular feeling in the States in question; but beyond the breaking of a few windows no harm was done.
While all other friends of France were exhausting themselves inoutbursts of sympathy, Ibsen wrote, Dec.
We need not have studied Tegnér very profoundly to conclude that there is a woman behind all this, and that every one of these outbursts may be traced back to an unhappy or an unsatisfied erotic passion.
In the second place, there is a certain freshness of tone about them, a certain fulness of feeling, certain strong and bold, enthusiastic, and vigorous outbursts which are never found in the quarters of the domestic animal.
It seems unlikely that such reports are without foundation, and perhaps equally improbable that they refer to mere fortuitous outbursts of unnatural lust.
In his sudden outbursts of rage against Madame Arnoux, he abused her in muttering tones.
Then there were outbursts of applause, which came from Mademoiselle Vatnaz at the lower end of the hall.
Their unseen progress could be followed by the changing aspects of the snatches and sudden outbursts of laughter to which they resorted in their senseless and continuous amusement at everything around them, including themselves.
Terrible outburstsof laughter sounded ominously on the dark shores of the Dnieper.
These conversations rattled on, interrupted by curses and wildoutbursts of laughter for whole nights, under fire and with more or less fighting.
Byron uttered words that no man should voice to a woman, and his outbursts were met with a forced calmness that was exasperating.
Of course, it is easy to say that had this woman been wise she would have stood the childish outbursts and endured the peevish tantrums, for the sake of the hours of tenderness and love that were sure to follow.
She had seen him greet Fred, and Jack Bedford, and even the gentle Professor with just such outbursts of affection, and she knew there was nothing especially personal to her in it all.
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