General Santa Anna's attempt to relieve Vera Cruz resulted only in another upheaval of the government at the capital.
Upheaval might conceivably be produced by an ascent of the internal magma, and the consequent expansion of the overlying crust by heat; while depression might follow any subsidence of the magma, or its displacement to another district.
Upheaval of sidewalk at Eighteenth and Capp Streets.
The scum of the earth had in the general upheaval risen, as he feared, to the surface, and emitted nauseous savours.
Meanwhile, the upheaval of the peasantry continued to be intermittent.
The influence of domestic religion was invariably opposed to the new and high doctrines which emanated from the priesthood, and in times of political upheaval tended to submerge them in the debris of immemorial beliefs and customs.
So great was the political upheaval caused by Rim-Sin and his allies and imitators in southern Babylonia, that it was not until the seventeenth year of his reign that Samsu-iluna had recaptured Erech and Ur and restored their walls.
Whatever be the cause or causes, the action must be sudden, such as an upheaval of the bottom, or a collapse of a large section of the ocean's bed, with a dropping of a vast body of water.
Le Conte points out that the sudden upheavalof the bed of the ocean forms a huge mound in the surface of the water which results in a large wave that spreads rapidly in all directions.
We may, to a certain extent, trace in these numbers the portions of the Earth in which the Plutonic forces were most intensely manifested in the interior by the upheaval of continental masses.
The upheaval of the whole world had done it and of the world England herself was a huge part--small, huge, obstinate, fighting England.
And now the unnatural emotional upheaval of the times has broken down all my artificialities.
In these days when all the forces of the world are in upheaval people are learning that there are many new things to be believed," was his answer.
Six miles from the latter we crossed a hollow where I noticed some calcareous matter, in which were included shells of recent species, evidently showing that an upheaval had taken place in this part of the continent.
As regards women, it is only in these times of religiousupheaval that the Church recognized their perfect equality with men.
Was the age immediately before the religious upheaval of the sixteenth century so very black, and was it the magic genius of Luther who divined how to call forth the light out of the “void and empty darkness”?
The upheaval is supposed to have resulted from some hydraulic pressure between the seams of rock beneath.
But, to hark back to the incident of the wonderful volcano upheaval which wrecked Ohinemutu and its terraces, its mountains and its lakes.
That a great explosion and upheaval had taken place within the deep sea was proved by the experience of the skippers in the coasting trade.
Thanks to the great share it has taken in the events causing the upheaval of European civilisation, it has entered therein and will appear at last in its true light.
The power of the law he could only guess at, and in his mind was a tumultuous upheaval of old recollections touching the theme.
On either side, the bay was hemmed in by bold projecting crags of coral rock, whose faces indicated, by parallel tide erosions, that they had been elevated by sudden upheaval into their present position.
This circumstance would point to an upheaval of the island during recent geological times.
Only a few grasped the fact that a tremendous upheaval was going forward which marked the rise of a new era and a complete break with the old.
Now, the mere prospect of this tremendous upheaval and of its sequel is, one would fancy, calculated to arouse the spirited interest of all the nations affected.
First and greatest upheaval of the chain of upheavals!
All of this upheaval was very bewildering to Rosalie.
The recent upheaval has offered many new opportunities of distinction for the consuls, especially in the interior of China.
Her Majesty's Government and their agents abroad having been found wanting in the matter of information during the upheaval of the Far East, it appeared to be their role to ignore and deny the facts upon which other Powers were acting.
We're on the edge of an upheaval in this State; I'm afraid Everett would have plunged us straight into it.
He had gone to sleep realizing that the hive was in a state of upheaval extraordinary, but he slept calmly in spite of it, and woke refreshed.
But, wherever a centre of ebullition declared itself the Government quenched the upheavalwith a douche of Frei-Corps.
Dingy soldiers everywhere, dirt, decay and deprivation everywhere, listlessness and laissez-faire on the surface, with unrest and upheaval below.
