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  • The ores in this furnace should therefore be fed in at the colder end of the hearth and be gradually worked or "rabbled" forward to the firing end.

    Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students

  • Revolution they refused to accept an uncovenanted king; one last brief day of triumph and vengeance they had, when they "rabbled" the conformist curates.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Meanwhile they bullied and "rabbled" the "curates" for _their_ religion: such was Leighton's

    A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang 1878

  • Mud was piled everywhere, over the splintered and broken planks that had once formed the deck of the piers and been cast against the rabbled river walls, up almost to the top of the tilted and shortened stone pillars that had comprised the base of the piers.

    Colors of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1999

  • The Episcopal clergymen were rabbled throughout all the western shires.

    Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

  • You have met, mobbed, rabbled, and thrown dirt at one another, but election by mob is no more free election than Oliver's election by a standing army.

    Daniel Defoe Minto, William, 1845-1893 1879

  • They remained centres of the devotion of their flocks, and the "curates," hastily gathered, who took their places, were stigmatised as ignorant and profligate, while, as they were resisted, rabbled, and daily insulted, the country was full of disorder.

    A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang 1878

  • After the Revolution of 1688, and on some occasions when the spirit of the Presbyterians had been unusually animated against their opponents, the Episcopal clergymen, who were chiefly non-jurors, were exposed to be mobbed, as we should now say, or rabbled, as the phrase then went, to expiate their political heresies.

    The Waverley 1877

  • You have met, mobbed, rabbled, and thrown dirt at one another, but election by mob is no more free election than Oliver's election by a standing army.

    Daniel Defoe William Minto 1869

  • The bishops 'carriages were stopped, and the prelates themselves rabbled on their way to the

    History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660 John Richard Green 1860

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