It was natural that panic should exaggerate the number murdered, as it was that panic and superstition together should see the spectres of the English who had been drowned by the rebels at Portadown.
The rebels gained one or two successes in the field, and took the city of Wexford.
If kings will be so civil to their subjects, to give up all things tamely, they first turn rebels to themselves, and that's a fair example for their friends.
With her majesty, your mother; She has taken chair, and he walks bowing by her, With thirty thousand rebels at his heels.
For he a race ofrebels sends, And Zeal the path of heaven pretends, But still mistakes the road.
Our intention therefore was to make the play a Parallel betwixt the Holy League, plotted by the house of Guise and its adherents, with the Covenant plotted by the rebels in the time of king Charles I.
My father said the rebels never fought harder than they did right there.
Confiscation of the property of the rebels may be necessary and just; but it is not enough.
Emancipation may be achieved by the slaves themselves; it may be effected by the Government of the United States; it may come through the desperation of the slaveholding rebels themselves.
In this extremity, the rebels turned to Joseph of Naxos, who had dealings with some of the nobility of Flanders from the time of his residence there.
The utter weakness which Henry betrayed encouraged the rebels to make the most outrageous assaults upon his prerogatives.
The Genoese now punished the rebels with the greatest severity--with death, banishment, and the confiscation of their property.
For when the heart has either been cheated by pleasure, or diverted by business, it rebels again, and derives from repose itself the force for new disquiet; but it is lastingly still if it has yielded to reason.
It is reported there, replied he, that the rebels are very powerful in Scotland, and that great numbers are gone over to them safe from France.
I know it was all meant well; but there is something in me which rebels against taking this from Wilford.
The American Colonies were thirteen separate units, with only a rude organization for common action, and in each of these units there existed a cleavage of opinion, based neither on class nor creed, between rebels and loyalists.
He entered them with a powerful host, driving the rebels from height to height, and valley to valley, and harassing them by a galling fire from thousands of cross-bows.
By the rapidity of his movements the rebels were defeated, Sidonia and Seville speedily retaken, and Casim was made prisoner.
Abderahman summoned his alcaids from their various military posts, to assist in driving the rebels from their mountain fastnesses into the plains.
The rebels were brought to terms, and surrendered the city on promise of general pardon, which was extended even to Hixem and Casim.
The rebels were signally defeated; four thousand fell in action; many were drowned in the river, and Muhamad, with a few horsemen, escaped to the mountains of the Algarves.
The new magistracy was set aside, the old board that had been deposed by the rebels reinstated.
France had ever been the receptacle of Spanish traitors and rebels from Antonio Perez down, and the King of Spain would always protect wronged and oppressed princes like Conde.
But this grim and cruel old king never at any time let himself be checked by his promised word; and now he seriously considered slaying these men as rebels and traitors.
The armies met at Saintes, in 1242, where the French were victorious, the rebels subsequently submitting, and Henry returning home.
All who were present, as well as the rebels then in Richmond, conceded that of all points in the several States embraced in the proposition with which Col.
As soon as it was generally known among the rebels that they had failed in attaining the objects for which they came to Chicago, Col.
Indeed it was morally certain that there was an understanding between the rebels inside, and the cowardly dogs on the outside of the post.
If no complicity, why did all the rebelsand confederate agents in Canada come to the Chicago Convention, and why were they here again at the November election?
His denunciations of the rebels excluded him from the confidence of the leaders, who began to regard him as a "dangerous man," and expressed the belief that he would turn against them, and therefore required watching.
He was with the other rebels at Chicago during the Convention, and went with them to Southern Illinois for the purpose of drilling Copperheads.
He was one of the soldiers who distinguished themselves, and climbed to the crest of the ridge, until it surrendered, and many Indians were captured, bringing the rebels back to the royal obedience.
All the kings and nations of the world are watching to see who comes out ahead in this undertaking--your Majesty or the rebels of Olanda.
This woman was known to be one of the most active instigators of the rebellion, and up to this period had always accompanied the rebels in their marches and engagements.
It swept the Shahapoor jungles of the disaffected, and then recaptured Chundaree, which the rebels had occupied a second time upon Sir Hugh Rose's advance to Calpee.
No sooner was our army withdrawn from the Crimea, than several of the effective regiments were embarked for active service in India, in order to bring the rebels to submission.
On the 2nd of March, the Texan Rebels seized the United States Revenue cutter "Dodge" at Galveston; and on the 6th, Fort Brown was surrendered to them.
The city of Washington swarmed with Rebels and Rebel sympathizers, and all the departments of Government were honey-combed with Treason and shadowed with treachery and espionage.
Informed, as the Rebels must have been, by their swarming spies, of the weakness of the Federal metropolis, it seems absolutely marvelous that instant advantage was not taken of it.
And, as we have already seen, the Rebels of the South were not slow in following the baleful advice to the letter.
Some children need corporal punishment[1] and others who are made rebels by it are melted into conformity by ostracism.
Though one rebels against the encouraging effect of the last statement, it does console, it does renew hope.
They are criminals before God, profaners of his sanctuary, rebels against themselves, enviers of their neighbours, monsters towards those who do not belong to them.
But Conrad, mistrusting the high-flown letter containing the invitation, and feeling moreover little sympathy with rebels against the pope, declined it.
Mother, do you forgive me, and give me your blessing, and let the rebels answer for spilling that blood of yours, which I would save with the loss of mine own if I had enough for both my master and yourself.
Then the royal cavalry came up, and in a few minutes the rebels were routed, and Monmouth, seeing all was lost, rode from the field.
It has been said by papers that ought to know better, that two or three hundred rebels captured and burned the town.
At about 11 o'clock, the rebels left town, as Averill's scouts captured five rebels within one mile of the town.
But you ask: "Was not General Averill near enough to have prevented the rebels from executing their nefarious design upon your town?
These were either carried away by the rebelsor burned.
The following is a correct list of the buildings burned by the rebels in Chambersburg, with their estimated value by a committee of disinterested gentlemen appointed for that purpose: South side of Market Street.
Repeatedly have our troops been fired upon and murdered by skulking rebels who protected themselves in their dwellings; but in no case has a town been destroyed therefor.
In this way our community was lulled into comparative security, until on Friday noon, July 29th, it was announced that the rebels had crossed in considerable force at Williamsport, and also at Cherry Run.
Doyle, of Loudon, who had served in Easton's battery, followed the retreating rebels towards Loudon, to capture stragglers.
But in each case the rebels did not come, and some degree of apathy in the community was the result.
We were soon startled from our dream of security by the announcement that General Crooks had been defeated, and the rebels were again advancing to invade Pennsylvania.
A squad of rebels seized a flag, which a lady happened to have in her house.
The two rebels did not flinch from the ordeal awaiting them.
Five of the rebels like satellites round her, Burned in her orbit of splendor and fear, One like the Pleiad of mystical story Shot terror-stricken beyond her dread sphere.
The rebels had huge bonfires burning on both shores, and as the Pensacola came opposite the forts they opened their furious fire upon her.
Indeed, matters had got to that point that he enjoyed the fun and was loath to let up, as he felt obliged to do, when the howling rebels slunk to their seats, thoroughly cowed and conquered.
A considerable party of therebels commanded by Col.
Whilst the rebels were plundring these noble persons, the Duke, with the Lord Levistan, Col.
August, Lambert with a far greater number ofrebels attaq'd him, and after some dispute gain'd the pass, the river being then fordable.
During this hot engagement at Perry-wood and Red-hil, the rebels on the other side the water possess'd themselves of S.
He removed, there was not a man in sight capable of leading the rebelsto victory.
The Storming of the Fortresses=] The success was so unexpected that the arrangements necessary for cutting off the retreat of the enemy had not been completed, and very large numbers of the rebels escaped, to give infinite trouble later on.
By a proclamation of the queen all rebels who were not directly implicated in the murder of British subjects, and would return to their duty and allegiance by January, 1859, were to obtain a complete amnesty.
After the suppression of the Taiping rebellion in China certain bands of the rebels took refuge in Tonquin, where they won themselves a new home by force of arms, and in 1868 held the valley of the Red River as far south as Hanoi.
In 1810 we find him in London, seeking the aid of the British government in favor of the rebels against Spain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
