Your feedback will be reviewed. Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary: There is a kind of pseudo-rebelliousness when the ant mocks the elephant, particularly when the ant works for the elephant in some insect-sized capacity. From the defeated and slain by Inarus, the leader of the second Though outwardly submissive, the Kumasi chiefs were far from reconciled to British rule, and in 1900 a serious Kumasi relieved, there remained the task of crushing the Under Burmese rule Lashio was also the centre of authority for the northern Shan States, but the Burmese post in the valley was close to the Nam Yao, in an old Chinese fortified camp. The hostility to "innovations in religion," it is generally allowed, was a far stronger incentive to the The semi-Asiatic kingdom of Astrakhan, where the whole atmosphere was predatory and nine-tenths of the population were nomadic, was the natural milieu for such a From the end of 1888 the amir passed eighteen months in his northern provinces bordering upon the Oxus, where he was engaged in pacifying the country that had been disturbed by revolts, and in punishing with a heavy hand all who were known or suspected to have taken any part in FEARGUS EDWARD O'CONNOR (1 79418 55), Chartist leader, was, a son of the Irish Nationalist politician Roger O'Connor (1762-1834), and nephew of Arthur O'Connor (1763-1852), who was the agent in France for Emmet's Among his pamphlets are A Candid Examination of the Mutual Claims of Great Britain and the Colonies (1775); Historical and Political Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American So, when during the Civil War Maryland was largely under Federal control and the demand arose for the abolition of slavery by the state, another constitutional convention was called, in 1864, which framed a constitution providing that those who had given aid to the It was not until the people was stung by the humiliation of Bull Run that the unorganized enthusiasm of the North settled down into an invincible determination to crush the A similar but less voluminous work is the Records of the Union and Confederate Navies (1894-); The Further, the Megillath Ta'anith (" roll of fasts "), an old source with a collection of miscellaneous legends, &c.; Megillath Antiokhos, on the martyrdom under Hadrian; Seder`Olam Rabbah, on biblical history from Adam to the Had not Lady Jane still been alive to take off the edge of Mary's indignation and suspicion Elizabeth might have paid forfeit for Wyat's But her past was in her favour, and so were her sex and her Tudor tact, which checked the growth of discontent and made Essex's From 1785 to 1787 he was governor of Massachusetts, suppressing with much vigour Shays' After a highly prosperous reign this prince resigned in favour of his brother, Nazr Mehemet, under whom the country was greatly troubled by the Io, 13), and also the sentences of awful judgment by which Yahweh rebukes He showed great ability at an early age, and was made governor of Herat by his father, but broke into open At Aduatuca (near Aixla-Chapelle) a newly-raised legion was cut to pieces by the Eburones under Ambiorix, while Quintus Cicero was besieged in the neighbourhood of Namur and only just relieved in time by Caesar, who was obliged to winter in Gaul in order to check the spread of the He was an able, strong-willed man, and crushed what was tantamount to a Absolution was refused by them to those who would not join in the Guise Their previous docility and their entire submission to the Jesuits left no possible doubt as to the source of the was convicted on charges which may be summarized as The Bechuana were entirely unaffected by the Kaffir To the home government the purely military problem, although assuming larger dimensions and more difficulties, still seemed to admit of a simple solution, namely, to strike hard where the The royal dukes, John and Charles, had already taken measures to depose him; and in July the In 1534 Lord Thomas Fitzgerald, better known as Silken Thomas (so called because of a fantastic fringe worn in the helmet of his followers), a young man of rash courage and good abilities, son of the Lord Deputy Kildare, believing his father, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London, to have been beheaded, organized a After much vicissitude of fortune, Lord Thomas and others concerned in this In 1848 William Smith O'Brien, M.P.