Commotions

“By some designing men my resignation from office . . . was represented as a factious desire to raise civil Commotions,” Morris wrote Washington.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

“By some designing men my resignation from office . . . was represented as a factious desire to raise civil Commotions,” Morris wrote Washington.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Queen, man - yous have some balls/and offered them the opening slot on the bill for the forthcoming Lloyd Cole and the Commotions gig.

A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

In such great Changes and Commotions, Individuals are but Atoms.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 11 February 1776 1963

If Popular Commotions can be justifyed, in Opposition to Attacks upon the Constitution, it can be only when Fundamentals are invaded, nor then unless for absolute Necessity and with great Caution.

Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1774 1963

Bethlehem; but finding the Town in such Commotions, he did not think it proper to stay for the present, apprehending that he might be called upon to be a Member of the Committee, &c.; and therefore went the following Evening to Jacobsen's at Staten Island.

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

Commotions by revenging his Father's Quarrel, 'and here he remained for twenty-seven years.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Wort, that it may quietly work by degrees, and not be violently forc'd into a high Fermentation; for then by course the Salt and Sulphur will be too violently agitated into such an Excess and Disagreement of Parts, that will break their Unity into irregular Commotions, and cause the Drink to be soon stale and harsh.

The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

Commotions also will happen in an oligarchy from one party's overbearing and insulting another, or from their quarrelling about their law-suits or marriages.

Politics: A Treatise on Government 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

_ -- In Town were many Commotions tho 'it was Sunday, on account of various Reports, especially from Boston, that

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston