agitator

• The safety of the state was endangered by such an agitator--the question of religion is really not what has sent the martyrs to the stake--it is the politician, not the priest, who fears the heretic By a small majority, Socrates was found guilty and sentenced to death. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
• With Downing street eager for the conviction of a socialist agitator, and the whole of society and the mob savage against him, a man would be a fool who would not appeal from Bow street or old Bailey to so just a judge as Pilate. —  King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth
• The Herald called him an "arch-agitator," more dangerous than Beecher, Garrison, or Theodore Parker. —  A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
• The iron boiler contains an agitator, which is occasionally operated during the melting. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885
• But, if the Government measure raises the gold value of the rupee, the agitator will be able to point out that, at an enormous cost to the producers of India, the Government has only obtained a most trifling financial relief, and be able to complain with justice that the Government has lessened the profits of the agriculturist and diminished the employment for labour. —  Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore

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