rise in arms
Example Sentences
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In his list of grievances against the British, Jefferson, a Virginian slave-owner, included the crime of “exciting those very people”—slaves—“to rise in arms among us.”
From Slate • Nov. 1, 2013
In his opinion, “A monarch should ever be intent on conquest, otherwise his neighbors rise in arms against him.”
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
His method was to do his own squeezing but to do it so often, so fast and so hard, that cotton men would rise in arms, force the Exchange to modify the rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Tanzania, Political Exile Peter Nanyemba, the bearded, fiery-eyed chief of the South West Africa People's Organization, told newsmen that his country had no alternative "but to rise in arms and bring about our liberation."
From Time Magazine Archive
I head now for the Virginia Colony in the company of my quondam charge, the Negro boy Octavian—in which country, he avoweth, he shall rise in arms against the vile practice of slavery.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
