Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Charles H. Peck of the public life and character of "Aaron Burr," in which he aims to substitute natural explanations for the acts and misfortunes of his extraordinary subject. Then follows, from G. Brown Goode, of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, "An Interesting Dialogue in 1676, between Bacon, 'the rebel,' and John Goode of Whitby." Judge J. Tarbell, of Washington contributes "Horace Greeley's Practical Advice to the Reconstructionists in Mississippi;" and T. J. Chapman, A. M., writes an interesting paper on the "Religious Movement in 1800." The shorter articles are varied and entertaining. The number concludes with its carefully...
...seems extremely probable that in the near future the good taste of the college will rebel against dressing two hundred odd students as no other mortals but hotel waiters are dressed. This being so, what better time than the present year to institute the reform...
...found the connection between the Annex and the Harvard Library. The dimity curtains and patch-covered window-seats cannot be offended at being dubbed "simple." But simplicity abdicates her sway when she approaches the study table, where confusion, I am told, too often reigns. The chairs, also, rebel against being confined to their primitive use, and offer their arms and backs to a heavy burden of Newmarkets, sacques and hats. The interested reader can obtain no adequate idea of the harmonious details I attempt to describe, until he realizes that this room has the ordinary proportions of a chamber. Order...
...scattered. Part were watching Hood and delaying his march, while the remainder were hurrying towards the headquarters. Schoolfield, with the advance, equal to half of Hood's army, slowly retreated, and such was the generals want of care that several times the Federals were almost cut off by the rebel cavalry marching past their flank. At Columbia and Spring Hill skirmishes took place, and then Schofield quickly withdrew to Franklin, a town only a few miles south of Nashville. Here he drew up and awaited the enemy. His line was thin and the seven divisions had broken them in when...
...conciliatory address, asking the co-operation of the pupils, but ending with a firm expression of his intentions and expectations. Very soon after which Bill Gates, a "six-footer," commenced the usual rebellion and tried to trip up Sykes, who instantly collared, floored, and put his foot on the rebel, and kept it there, until Bill promised to abide by the rules of the school in general, and to submit to the application of the big flat ruler of the teacher in particular. But when the latter went for this instrument of authority, Bill went for the window...