Word: mob
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scrimmage." In the Rugby code a scrimmage takes place when the holder of the ball, being in the field of play, puts it down on the ground in front of him, and the moment he does this the fielders on both sides crowd around him in a mob and each side endeavors to get a chance to kick the ball out of the scrimmage, and the result is that a pretty rough time occurs, the players who are defending the holder of the ball striving to push the opposing fielders back, while the latter endeavor to drive the former from...
Neal, Ellis and Croft, the Kentucky murderers, were removed yesterday from Graison to Marysville, under a strong guard of troops. The troops were twice attacked by a mob, and five of the latter killed and about thirty wounded...
...Bostonians will be removed by this letter. One of their chief reasons for dreading Butler's election was the scandal they thought would be caused by the spectacle of his going out to Harvard College on commencement day to receive his LL. D., followed by a roaring mob of vicious and illiterate followers. Many old Bostonians have felt as if this scene, if they ever beheld it, would kill them. They will now feel easier, for they see that, if elected, his appearance at the old university will be simply the triumph of a cultured conscience over the temptations...
...prominent paper remarked Sunday, "of the 2,500 spectators at the Brown-Harvard game, about 500 paid anything." A brick wall has been talked of as more agreeable to the eye than a board fence. It matters not what it is, but there should be some barrier to the mob. - [News...
...Odessa mob recently attacked Sarah Bernhardt, on the ground that she is a Jewess. In this they were mistaken, for though she is of Hebrew parents, she is of the Catholic religion, having received both baptism and her first communion at the Church of Auteuil...