Riots
[raiəts]
Examples
- How often in great strikes have riots been started in order to prevent the public from listening to the workers' demands! Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The riots died away, the labor leaders turned to other fields, and one by one the clothing factories installed the new machines. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There were riots twice in the town against the war and bad rioting in Turin. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The ringleaders of riots, they think, ought to be punished: they would punish them themselves if they could. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Labor leaders took up the slogan, and led the men and women workers in what were known as the Sewing-machine Riots. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Riots broke out, Whatmore pit-head was in flames. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Riots and excommunications and banishments punctuated these controversies, and finally came official persecutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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