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Thuriot shews himself from some pinnacle, to comfort the multitude becoming suspicious, fremescent: then descends; departs with protest; with warning addressed also to the Invalides,--on whom, however, it produces but a mixed indistinct impression.

—The French Revolution

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Very noisy and tumultuous; riotous; raging. [Rare.] Thuriot shows himself from some pinnacle, to comfort the multitude becoming suspicious, fremescent. Carlyle, French Rev., I. v. 6.

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Thuriot shews himself from some pinnacle, to comfort the multitude becoming suspicious, fremescent: then descends; departs with protest; with warning addressed also to the Invalides,--on whom, however, it produces but a mixed indistinct impression. — The French Revolution
Thuriot shews himself from some pinnacle, to comfort the multitude becoming suspicious, fremescent: then descends; departs with protest; with warning addressed also to the Invalides, -- on whom, however, it produces but a mixed indistinct impression. — The French Revolution