Thesaurus / rabble-rouser
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A touch of the spurs sent Nejdi with a mighty bound into the midst of the rabble who held the road.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYSoult's corps arrived without cannon or baggage, a mere armed rabble, and Ney's men jeered at the disorganised battalions.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONMaltby and Butler chased John Burke and his rabble up and down the country, but could never come up with them.
IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS, VOL. II (OF 3)RICHARD BAGWELLBut a woful rude rabble there was, and such noises, made my head ake all this evening.
DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, COMPLETESAMUEL PEPYSThis process effected a total change of deportment in the small rabble that stood looking on.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 67, NUMBER 414, APRIL, 1850VARIOUSTwenty or thirty of the rabble now discovered us, and ran down towards the spot; but they were too late.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 67, NUMBER 414, APRIL, 1850VARIOUSThe sorriest rabble everywhere, but in no place have they reached such scoundrelism as in Rome.
RULE OF THE MONKGIUSEPPE GARIBALDI"Mr. Overton, don't let any of the rabble come into this barn for the present," directed Hal's company commander.
UNCLE SAM'S BOYS AS LIEUTENANTSH. IRVING HANCOCKHal tapped the hilt of his weapon lightly, then started to push the rabble back.
UNCLE SAM'S BOYS AS LIEUTENANTSH. IRVING HANCOCKHis sister was driven away by the mob; and he being shot, his body remained a long time exposed to the insults of the rabble.
FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRSJOHN FOXEWORDS RELATED TO RABBLE-ROUSER
- advocate
- agent
- anarchist
- champion
- demagogue
- disrupter
- dissident
- fighter
- firebrand
- fomenter
- heretic
- incendiary
- instigator
- leftist
- malcontent
- mover
- partisan
- propagandist
- provocateur
- pusher
- rabble-rouser
- radical
- reactionary
- rebel
- reformer
- revisionist
- revolutionary
- ringleader
- sparkplug
- troublemaker
- wave maker
- zealot
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