rebellion

• Many highly interesting facts have been communicated with regard to the freedmen—their natural endowments, their facility in acquiring knowledge in letters and arms, their industrial habits, their shrewdness in business transactions, their gratitude, their courage, their acquaintance with passing events, their confidence that the result of the rebellion will be the liberation of their people, and their piety. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of /*, by AUTHOR.
• I have resolved to take Sedan out of his hands, and to humble him upon the very threshold of his power; and this vengeance upon his rebellion will be ample, as he has taught himself to believe that I dare not attack him in his stronghold. —  The Life of Marie de Medicis, Vol. 1
• Hearing of these things, the Queen's ladies hastened to her in fright, fearful that a rebellion was about to break out. —  TheChildrenof
• But her councillors and Renard, all of whom had been thoroughly frightened, were at pains to point out that the rebellion was the result of her being over-merciful at her accession. —  TheChildrenof
• Had he been true to the duties of his high office and his public and repeated pledges, there would have been no necessity for considering such a bill Throughout the region of the unreconstructed States," said Mr. Maynard, "the animating, life-giving principle of the rebellion is as thoroughly in possession of the country and of all the political power there to-day as it ever has been since the first gun was fired upon Fort Sumter. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States

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