mob law
Example Sentences
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One cannot expect mob law to be tolerant or to understand the myriad issues and influences which go to make up any given event.
From Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
Nevertheless, there is no proof that mob law prevailed in Belgium, as it did in Germany.
From What Germany Thinks The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith
"It is hard to believe that they would yield up their country to mob law."
From Mrs. Fitz by J. C. Snaith
It hardly need be said, that without exception, the current of English thought deprecates the rule of mob law, and the conscience of England is shocked by the revelation made during the present crusade.
From The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
"With mills and mill-hands," her ladyship announced to Mr. Laurence, the mill-owner, when chance first threw them together, "with mills and mill-hands come murder, massacre, and mob law."
From A Fair Barbarian by Frances Hodgson Burnett
