rebellious

• “It was not until 1900s and what I call the rebellious generation, that Zionists and their Aparthied goals entered the Middle East and Palestine with help of the British Empire, this empire in this era changing from coal to oil used to drive their Navy.”

  Richard Silverstein: Gaza: Truce Without Hope

• “No," quoth he, "when I say the colonies, I mean what you call the rebellious party in them.”

  Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

• “Because it was King Charles's day; and they've fined and imprisoned and hung people for all kinds of what they call rebellious practices.”

  In Honour's Cause A Tale of the Days of George the First

• “My husband, being of English birth and having served in the king's army, cannot brook what he calls the rebellious talk which is common among his neighbors, and is already on bad terms with many around us.”

  True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence

• “In the first place, sire, what do you term rebellious?" quietly asked the musketeer.”

  The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After"

• “Receiving by heredity the fierce, bull-like nature of his father plus the passive indomitableness and groping spirit of his mother, Fomá, proud and rebellious, is repelled by the selfish, money-seeking environment into which he is born.”

  Fomá Gordyéeff

• “Oh! how deceitful, how rebellious is the heart of man; how guilty and wretched even his best estate, Oh! the terror and horror of such impr?”

  Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,August 28, 1857

• “It's not conformism that leads us to spend, spend, spend on the unnecessary and the ephemeral, but its opposite: the quest to distinguish ourselves from the masses through our enlightened, hip, or just plain rebellious consumer preferences.”

  Rebels Without a Cause

• “Fomá, proud and rebellious, is repelled by the selfish, money-seeking environment into which he is born.”

  Fomá Gordyéeff

• “She and her husband, 72, who both agreed to an interview at their home Thursday, said they observed problems with the boy, whom they described as a rebellious teen, over the years.”

  Times Leader News

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