Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story* of how James O'brien, he that had been Ireland's curly-headed rebel poet before he hushed his tongue and earned the name of Jimmy the Hangman for sitting, iron-jowled, on a high bench of justice as Lord Glenmalure; of how this man married his sweet daughter Connaught to John d'Arcy, a tricky swipe but polished, instead of to fine young Dermot McDermot of Dermotstown, as brave a lad of the old land as was in it, so that she might be a great lady and go about the world instead of stopping...
Despatches reported that Homs was closely invested by the rebels, last week; and that the rebel base at Hasbeya had at length been captured by the French after an elaborate encircling movement...
...hero is a dashing dog than whom no one in Charleston can fight or love more fiercely. He is in charge of the rebel forces and becomes deeply implicated in a treason plot through his pretty wife's Tory family. In a last act, which is as complicated as a mystery melodrama, the true spy turns up and the British are confounded...
...acquaintance and friend of the former Chief Justice, permit me to say that he was not a Confederate Veteran, but an Illinois Copperhead- and a bitter one at that, but he never entered the Rebel Army ; also he was not a Roman Catholic, he and his family were members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, having been formerly members of the Congregational Church in Augusta, Me., and entering the Episcopal Church just before or a few years after the Chief Justice was born. I think he saw the error of his ways as to Copperheadism, and would not thank...
Twelve male Light-Bearers have been introduced as accessories to the annual ceremony of the Temple Sleep, thitherto participated in only by Mukalinda and his brides. A rebel arises in Manland, demanding shares for him and his wild fellows in the rite. The Light-Bearers themselves are infected with revolt and there is a year when the dedicated maidens have nothing to report of their sleep in the temple save pleasant dreams. The maidens smell fraud and burn the temple, whose flames signal a lusty and welcomed invasion from Manland. In the orgy of innocent rapine and surrender that follows...