Rebels

Examples

• But, like ourselves, the rebels had become experts in repairing such damage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Though he knows,' said Mr. Bounderby, now blowing a gale, 'that there are a set of rascals and rebels whom transportation is too good for! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Quite a sharp engagement ensued, but he drove the rebels back with considerable loss, including one general officer killed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The rebels had obstructed the navigation of Yazoo Pass and the Coldwater by felling trees into them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• All rebels were known as Johnnies, all Union troops as Yanks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That opinion is largely determined by the real impulses of men; and genuine character rejects or at least rebels against foreign, unnatural impositions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was Death himself, they declared, come visibly to seize on subject earth, and quell at once our decreasing numbers, sole rebels to his law. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Not rebels, nor yet rascals. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There is a kind of professional reconciler of opposites who likes to lump all the prominent rebels together and refer to them affectionately as us radicals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At the East, also, the rebels were busy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The rebels made a desperate effort to hold the fort, and had to be driven from these traverses one by one. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• With Wilson turned loose, with all your cavalry, you will find the rebels put much more on the defensive than heretofore. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was the only man of the National army between the rebels and our transports. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There were ten thousand rebels round us, and they were as keen as a set of terriers round a rat-cage. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was anxious that the rebels should not take the initiative in the morning, and therefore ordered Hancock to make an assault at 4. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Ulster Protestants were treated little better than the Catholics in these matters, and they were the chief of the rebels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I was also directed to handle rebels within our lines without gloves, to imprison them, or to expel them from their homes and from our lines. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But what's the consequence; what's the ungrateful behaviour of these rebels, sir? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The movement against the rebels at Greenville went no further. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Colonel Mason was one of the officers who had led their regiments off the field at almost the first fire of the rebels at Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The rebels were some distance back from the river, so that their fire was high and did us but little harm. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The older rebels claimed to be more orthodox than the Church, to have gone back to the true authorities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I was apprehensive lest the object of the rebels might be to get troops into Tennessee to reinforce Bragg, as it was afterwards ascertained to be. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Many rebels were captured and sent to the rear under the fire of their own friends higher up the hill. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That is perhaps why so many of the romantic rebels of the Nineteenth Century sank at last into the comforting arms of Mother Church. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Hartranft to the right of the breach headed the rebels off in that direction and rapidly drove them back into Fort Stedman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The rebels, learning his route, had sent in about 4,000 men--many more than there were sailors in the fleet. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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