Thebes admitted the validity of their claims: it looked to them for help, and the revolts by which it had been torn ever since the reign of Osorkon II.
Hazael and his successors wore themselves out in repelling the attacks of the Assyrians and in repressing the revolts of Israel; when Tiglath-pileser III.
Sargon and the revolts which harassed him had awakened in Busas the warlike instincts of his race, and the moment appeared advantageous for abandoning his policy of inactivity.
So little could its end be foreseen, that the Sertorian insurrection seemed rather as if it would become intermingled with other contemporary revolts and thereby add to its dangerous character.
He revolts and begins to take matters into his own hands with the result that the household enters its fifth incarnation under his guidance, during which everything is painted white and all the wall-papers are a vivid scarlet.
His business is a closed book to her, in which she can have no interest, for her weary husband naturally revolts from talking "shop," even if she is in a position to understand him.
Already we are obliged to depend on immigration for our servants because an American revolts from the false position, though he willingly accepts longer hours or harder work where he has no one around him but his equals.
But the thing does not exist; it never had a being; history does not record it, common sense revolts at it.
And there were many revolts of the slaves, and more than a million of slaves were destroyed in them.
It seemed then to young Andras that he was assisting at one of the combats of the Middle Ages, during one of those revolts against the Osmanlis, of which he had heard so much when a child.
While Prussia has been guilty of the partition of Poland, Russia is largely to blame for the repeated revoltsand insurrection of her Polish citizens.
Then came one of the most remarkable religious revolts which history records.
Of the many peasant revolts which the history of mediævalism records this was the most threatening and dangerous, and called for the most strenuous exertions to save the institutions of Germany from a complete overthrow.
When the iconoclastic revolts occurred in Italy, and the Popes broke with the Empire, the Lombard kings thought that their opportunity to conquer all Italy had come.
The subsequent suppression of the revolts in Prague, Vienna, Madrid, and Rome, have confirmed the same important truth.
The Vox Clamantis, or voice of one crying in the wilderness, is directly historical, being a chronicle, in Latin elegiacs, of the popular revolts of Wat Tyler in the time of Richard II.
One of these revolts on the plantation Quiebra Hache and some on other neighboring haciendas led to the foundation of Santa Maria del Rosario.
After the insurrection of November, 1843, a meeting of planters was called in Matanzas, and the government was asked to take steps to make further revolts impossible.
If he was guilty he was not a good organizer, for none of therevolts had any national effect.
These intrigues resulted in revolts that broke out in Puerto Cabello, Caracas, Panama and Maracaibo.
It was to be followed by a number of revolts that shook the very foundations of Spain's colonial empire in America.
The Sudanese tribes were aroused by these and other incursions, until the revolts became formidable in the fourteenth century before Christ.
In Martinique it took three revolts and a civil war to bring freedom.
However, all the attempts at military revolts and counter-revolutions were encouraged with supplies of arms and material.
My heart revolts with disgust against those brutish gods, always occupied with carnage and incest.
Yet his pride revolts at the idea of being beaten; for a moment he is filled with rage, but his courage all disappears with the first blows he receives, and he finally shows himself to be the poltroon that he himself despises.
This way the Romans Must or for Britons slay us, or receive us For barbarous and unnaturalrevolts During their use, and slay us after.
Now does he feel His secret murthers sticking on his hands, Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach; Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love.
Two revolts in the Philippines that occurred at this period are of much importance and show the effect in the Philippines of the political changes in Spain.
The whole empire was divided into satrapies, or provinces--each under a resident governor; these governors made frequent reports to the capital and the opportunity for revolts was slight.
Its revolts had already cost Babylonia and Assyria dear in fighting men and tiresome sieges, and now it must be forever quelled if attention was to be given to home affairs.
Their brethren, the Assyrians, proceeded in exactly the same manner, and all their ruthless deeds were done to gratify Asshur and avenge the insults done him by revolts against his strength.
Asshur-banipal was finding some difficulty in holding together the empire of his fathers, and when revolts occurred, they were put down with greatest severity.
For some years he continued to bring countries under tribute, quelling revolts with such severity as only an Assyrian could have directed.
Egypt revolts and is not reduced to subjection| | | |until 484.
In the ensuing welter of revolts and conspiracies President Madero was set aside and killed, and the United States applied pressure to eliminate President Huerta.
On the other hand, she was weakened by being dependent on mercenary troops in her wars, subject to revolts at home among the native populations whom she oppressed, and hampered by the factious spirit prevalent among her leading men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revolts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
